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Traditional Wedding Cake Designs

When someone thinks of  classic wedding cakes they are likely thinking about round, multi-tiered, white cakes surrounded in white vanilla buttercream icing and decorated with gumpaste pearls, butter cream piping and perhaps some fondant flowers. On the inside would be a moist yellow cake and the same butter cream filling. Of course a bride and groom figure are perched at the top.

So, while Queen Victoria of England set the stage for the white wedding dress wedding dress and white wedding cakes, your traditional cake would likely not be the Victorian era fruit cake. However, your traditional cake could be capped by either a bride and groom topper or a small bouquet of fresh flowers as was the Victorian custom.

Modern Wedding Cakes

Contemporary wedding cakes typically mix elements of the traditional with the non-traditional. For example, the shape may still be round and tiered but the couple may choose a color other than white or ivory. Or, your towering four tier wedding cake may be milky white, but each of the tiers might be square or heart-shaped.

The gift box wedding cake, which has become very popular, is a stacked cake without pillars, where each level of the stack looks like a wrapped gift box. The stack may be orderly or each “box” may be off kilter from the one below it, Discount Wraps with an “opened lid” perhaps at the top level. Though your gift-box cake may be white, many are done in the wedding theme colors and may match the bridesmaids ’ dress dress colors, the table decor or the wedding flowers. The bows and ribbons are usually edible and made of gum paste or fondant, though double sided satin ribbon is sometimes used.

Don’t confuse the gift box wedding cake with a wedding cake favor box which is a box that is given to each guest in order to take home a piece of the wedding dessert.

Unusual Wedding Cakes

Gift box wedding cakes were unusual at one time, so the definition of what is unusual continues to change. To really have something unique, consider the way you met each other, consider where you met, is there an activity you both really love to do, are you both in a fun and rewarding profession, do you have children chocolate bridesmaid dresses , do you have a pet?

Then, go ahead and ask your wedding cake designer to come up with sketches that capture the essence of your idea. Airplane pilots may ask for something in the shape of an airplane; couples that met while traveling or stranded at an airport may want a cake shaped like a suitcase; brides and grooms that enjoy fantasy may want a castle with a dragon, or a creation in rainbow colors with butterflies and birds.

Whimsical is OK because this is your wedding and your cake can be something important, funny or meaningful to you.

Mini Wedding Cakes

While cupcake weddings are also very popular best prom dresses for plus size best prom dresses for plus size, miniature wedding cakes are another possibility for your weddings. Your mini wedding cakes can be sized per person or per table and will generally reflect the colors and style of the main wedding cake. If there will be one per guest, they can be displayed on tiered servers, until they are ready to be served. Otherwise, table sized ones  strapless bridesmaid dresses can be part of the reception table centerpiece for each guest table.

Note that mini wedding cakes will be more expensive than having a single larger cake as each individual one needs to be decorated. Also, Discount Wraps shawls Discount Wraps shawls  bridesmaid dresses black and white bridesmaid dresses black and whiteserving one per person will be be a more involved and costly production for your baker, than having one per table.

Wedding Cake Flavors

Bakers will typically have standard flavors and fillings as well as gourmet fillings that are priced a bit higher. Some professionals will also work with a bride and groom who may have a special request for a particular filling or flavor that is not in the repertoire. Your tiered cake can also have a different flavor and/or filling for each of the tiers. Here are some of the most popular flavors and fillings:

Some Cake Flavors

• vanilla cake, carrot cake
• almond cake, red velvet cake
• chocolate cake, pink champagne cake

Common Butter Cream Cake Fillings

• vanilla, chocolate
• peanut butter, pistachio
• pineapple, hazelnut
• banana, lemon

Premium Fillings

• vanilla custard , chocolate ganache
• cannoli, cream cheese
• fresh fruit such as raspberries added to buttercream

While your choice of flavors and fillings may be more limited, many bakeries can create dairy-free, sugar-free and gluten free items.

Designing and Ordering Your Wedding Cake

For the best results, you should work with a wedding cake baker or designer in your area who specializes in wedding cakes. Look at their wedding cake photo gallery, to see if there is a design that suits you. Even if you have a unique request girls cocktail dresses girls cocktail dresses, a good baker will be able to create the cake that you want and have it not only measure up to your expectations but be appropriate to the specific type of wedding you have planned.

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