A Variety of Factors Affect Wedding Cake Designs

Your budget, reception conditions, favorite cake and icing flavors, the number of invited guests and even your cake topper will affect wedding cake designs. Many bakeries and cake designers will have floor samples in their shops of traditional or common cakes they have done in the past.  These samples can be tweaked with a few touches to create a cake unique for your wedding.

Of course, you might have seen a cake design in a magazine that you simply must have. Bring the picture with you when you meet with the bakery or cake designer.

A Time and Place
The time of your wedding and its location can dictate what wedding cake designs you will choose from. For instance, some frostings do not hold up well in warm conditions like whipped toppings while marzipan “sweats” if not properly stored in cold conditions. An air conditioned reception hall or other location is optimal and invites more creativity in ingredients when creating the cakes.

Size Matters
The number of guests you anticipate may dictate your choice in wedding cake designs. The more people who attend then the more expensive the cake becomes. To save money yet still present a fancy front, have the cake designer bake some regular sheet cakes with the filling and frosting you want and keep them hidden. For the bridal cake, the baker can create a few fake layers to give the illusion of an expensive cake when in actuality, there is only one or two layers you cut through while the hidden sheet cakes are cut and divvied up for the guests.

All According to Taste
Vanilla and chocolate are two flavors that make their way into many wedding cake designs. After all, these two flavors are the most popular in bakeries and count as a large percentage of sales. However, you do not have to settle with just these two flavors. Have each cake layer have a different flavor or choose a unique cake filling to jazz things up a bit. After all, it is YOUR day.

Incorporate Memories
Wedding cake designs should reflect the bride (and groom) and what better way than choosing a favorite memory and bringing it to life – in a cake! If one or both of you have Celtic roots, perhaps have the cake decorated in a special coat of arms design. Off-road biking or ATV enthusiasts could have a cake shaped like a mountain with marzipan or sugar flowers, grass and trees adorning it. Many wedding cake designers are true artists and can bring a number of your favorite memories to life.

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