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Thursday, March 26, 2009

wedding cake

You’ve got to admit it, cake designers are getting pretty creative these days. Wedding cake designs are not just limited to plain white wedding cakes with white icing flowers and a plain old wedding cake topper on top anymore. No way, wedding cake designs you’ll notice now are showing wedding cakes in all sorts of shapes, designs, colors, and accessories. If you can dream up your ideal wedding cake design, then chances are that some bakery or baker will be able to make it up to your specifications. But, there can be a downside. With so many choices in wedding cake designs, what happens when you just can’t choose the one you want for your wedding, or find that perfect wedding cake design picture that goes along with your dream wedding cake? Here are some basics of wedding cake designs that you’ll need to decide, and other accessories you can use.

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Wedding Cake Designs - The Tiers

One of the first things you’ll need to be deciding when talking to your bakery about wedding cake designs in what kind of tiers you want on your wedding cake, how big (in diameter) the tiers should be, and how many tiers you’ll need. The number of guests you are expecting for your wedding is a great indicator on how many tiers and how large each tier should be. Your bakery should be able to tell you approximately how many servings you’ll have with the different number of tiers and the sizes of each tier. Now for what kind of tiers. The two basic kind of tiers you choose from are round tiers or square tiers. Then, if you choose square tiers, you’ll need to decide if you want them all straight, or to have each tier turned for a more funky look. To help you choose your wedding cake designs in this area, your bakery should be able to show you what each wedding cake design would look like.


Wedding Cake Designs - Colors and Flavors

Next, when choosing from the different wedding cake designs, you’ll need to decide what flavor of cake you want, if you want any kind of filling, and what flavor and color you’d like the icing to be. These cake flavors, depending on your bakery of course, can be any flavor that you choose. See my article on White Wedding Cakes to see what I did, and how you can have fun with your wedding cake flavors.

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Wedding Cake Designs - Decorations

This is really where bakeries get creative for their wedding cake designs. There are so many different ways to decorate wedding cakes, that I don’t even know if I can cover them all, but I’ll try. You can choose a wedding cake design that is done purely of icing or fondant. Basket weave is a popular decoration for cakes, as well as polka dots or stripes. Also, my bakery used sugar flowers of different colors poked into the icing (see the picture in my Wedding Cake Topper article for a picture of my cake). Or, you can use fresh flowers, ribbon, crystals, or even fake pearls lining each tier. The number of wedding cake designs is limited only to your imagination, so plan away.

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There are lots of wedding cake designs to choose from, and it took me long time to find the one I wanted. In fact, I even changed my order a few weeks before the wedding when I found a picture of a wedding cake design that I liked better than the one I had. So take your time, find a wedding cake design that you really love, and enjoy !
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