Unlimited Number Of Wedding Cake Designs

Wedding cake designs include many different aspects of the cake. First is the way the cake is set up. Do you want the tiers separated by pillars, as in a three tiered wedding cake? Maybe you want a fountain or stairs. Or you could have the tiers stacked one on top of each other. You can also have the cake on stands that are various heights. There are many choices.

The second aspect is what type of frosting you want to use. The most popular are butter-cream, fondant and whipped. Cake designs for wedding cakes can best be done in butter-cream. Fondant gives a nice smooth and crisp look, although it dries to a very hard crust, which makes it a challenge to cut. Whipped frosting is light and airy. It doesn't stand up to heat well.

The third aspect is what theme you want to go with. You can have seasonal-Spring, Fall etc. There also are Holiday, Fairytale, Country, Floral, Hawaiian and Castle, just to name a few.

The fourth aspect is the shape of the cake. There is round, square, oval, hexagon and petal. You can combine the different shapes to make a very unique cake.

Cake designs for wedding cakes can be very simple, too. All you need to do is have a few swags and designs on the sides of the tiers. Sometimes less is more. You can have a simple, lovely, beautiful and unique cake all rolled into one.

Just by looking at wedding cake designs you can come up with more ideas than you could ever use. A wedding cake e-book could help you design your perfect cake.

There is no right or wrong wedding cake. Whatever wedding cake design you choose for your cake is the right one for you. A Three Tier Wedding Cake is the most commonly used. You can usually get enough cake from three tiers to feed an average sized wedding reception.

Many brides use the season of the year for the theme of their reception. Autumn or Fall Wedding Cakes can be very beautiful. Ivory Frosting with red, orange, yellow and rust flowers are a gorgeous combination. You can take any cake design and substitute those colors and have an instant fall cake. A Christmas or Holiday Wedding Cake has endless possibilities when it comes to designs. As long as you use pointsettias, in any color, you have a Christmas cake. If you use red and green, you can use any flowers. It's very simple. A winter wedding cake can be most anything you want. You wouldn't want to have summer flowers on it. Use roses, carnations or dark colored flowers.

A wedding reception can have any kind of theme you want. Some may have a beach theme with a cake designed to go with that. A Country wedding cake design usually has basketweave design for the frosting and wild flowers. A Castle Wedding Cake can just have the castle topper and be decorated with elegant designs on the rest of the tiers. Find a design for a simple cake and add Disney characters and you have an instant Disney themed cake. You can adapt most wedding cake designs to fit your theme by just adding a topper - Cowboy, Fireman, Western, Patriotic and Lighthouse just to name a few. An Irish Wedding Cake design can be as simple as adding a few shamrocks to the cake design. Just add bright flowers to a summer design and you can have a Tropical Theme Wedding Cake . It doesn't have to be hard to get your themed cake designed. For a butterfly cake, pick out a design and add butterflies. A French wedding cake usually has elaborate designs on the tiers and looks very elegant.

There are many types of wedding cakes. Many designs can be considered Beautiful or Lovely . You must be the judge of that. Designer Wedding Cakes usually are a little different than the normal cake. They can be very simple or go totally the other way and be off the wall. Cakes that look refined and intricate are thought to be fancy or Elegant Wedding Cakes. You'll see a lot of cakes now that have no designs on the sides of the tiers. These simple wedding cakes are completly smooth with flowers around each tier. Unique wedding cake designs ride a very fine line with ugly cakes. It's nice to be different, but there is a limit. Vintage wedding cake designs tend to have a lot more detail that uses a lot of thick frosting and big flowers. On the other hand, modern wedding cakes have more geometrical designs and use more ribbon than flowers. Then there is the good old traditional wedding cake. Usually it is 3 - 4 tiers, designed with scallops or swags on the sides of the tiers. The frosting is white with some flowers for color.

Wedding cakes come in many different shapes. Round is the most popular shape. Square Wedding Cakes are easier to cut and can be arranged in several different ways. For something unusual you could have a Hexagon Wedding Cake. These six sided tiers can be decorated many ways to make a one-of-a-kind cake. Using a castle cake top can make your cake into a Castle Wedding Cake. A few clever designs on the tiers can tie it all together.

Your wedding cake can be any color you want it to be. Most cakes are white or ivory. To add color to the cake, most people use flowers. You can have a black and white wedding cake by using small accents of black frosting or ribbons. The same goes for most any color, such as purple, red or pink. The choice is yours.

The size of your wedding cake is up to you. If your wedding is going to be an intimate affair, a small or mini wedding cake will do just fine. There is no need to have more cake tnan you need.

A floral designed wedding cake is always beautiful. A wedding cake with Daisies is a good choice for late spring and summer. Daisies can be most any color you want.

Monogram wedding cakes are very popular right now. The cake topper is usually made out of brushed aluminum or a shiny plastic, in the capital letter of your last name. They look very elegant on top of the cake. Another elegant looking cake is a Pearl wedding cake. Strings of various sized pearls, in almost any color you want, are strung around the cake. They take the place of the frosting designs on the sides of the cake. They look very pretty.

Sometime a very close friend or relative may want to do your wedding cake for you. A homemade wedding cake may not look picture perfect, but the thought and love that went into it can mean more than anything.

There are two main types of frosting used on wedding cakes. A buttercream frosted wedding cake is the most popular. The frosting is soft with a slight butter flavor. It is easy to use for the frosting details and decorations on the cake. A basketweave wedding cake design is always decorated with a buttercream frosting. The other type of frosting is called Fondant. It is like a stiff pie dough with an almond flavor. It must be rolled out and placed over the cake. It then must be smoothed out with a special tool. You can then use frosting to make decorations on it or press design cutters into it to make unique impressions.

To have a Bride and Groom Wedding Cake, all you have to do is have a bride and groom topper on the cake. The cake can be decorated any way you want it. A groom's cake is usually a sheet cake set off to the side of the wedding cake. It is made out of the groom's favorite flavor of cake, usually chocolate.

Wedding cake can be made out of any flavor of cake that you want. Even the frosting can be flavored. For instance, a Chocolate Wedding Cake can have chocolate cake and frosting. It can be decorated like any other cake. A chocolate and white wedding cake can have chocolate and white cake with all white frosting. It can also be decorated with white and chocolate frosting. This is a very unique cake.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to wedding cake designs. By using your own wedding cake ideas and the pictures in a wedding cake e-book, you should be able to design your own perfect wedding cake.

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