Simple Wedding Cake

Simple Wedding Cakes Can Look So Elegant

A simple wedding cake today is designed with modest decoration items like fresh colorful flowers, stairways or fruit fillings like Lemon, Strawberry, Raspberry or butter cream. The trend with wedding cake decorations today is keeping it simple and elegant at the same time.

Most couples these days want the traditional elegant looking white wedding cake with white icing and filling, but the cakes are not overtly done and yet they look very nice to look at, with the simplest of decorations on them.

A married couple normally cuts the cake at their reception and later it's served out to all the guests present at the function. You can decide your wedding cake design from the various designs and patterns available or get one uniquely done for your wedding, as there are many kinds of pretty and simple looking wedding cakes that are available today, in various shapes, fillings, sizes and flavors.

A simple wedding cake would taste just as good as an exquisitely done cake, but will have very minimalistic decoration done on it. The flavors can be carrot, raspberry, mango, orange, coconut, chocolate, strawberry and twin flavors amongst many others.

The icing and the cake's flavor need to complement one another. If you would like to know more about the various styles, flavors and designs of wedding cakes which are in trend today, then you can easily search for the wedding cake pictures online. This way, you'll know about the types of decoration and designs the couples are opting for today.

As we all know, wedding cake prices today are very high and it's mostly because of the hard work and intricacy that goes into making it and not because of the actual ingredients and materials which are used for making the cake.

Opting for a modest looking wedding cake with simple designs, no intricacies or gimcracks will certainly help you save a decent amount by the end of it. Else, if there are some really good cooks in your family or your close friend circle, then you could take their help and put their expertise to use by asking them to bake a simple cake for your wedding.

There are various wedding cake recipes available on the internet and you can find them easily. With the right recipe in hand along with the expertness of a great cook, will ensure that you have a tasty, simple and an inexpensive wedding cake made.

A simple wedding cake can look elegant too because not everything showy is as good as it looks. Natural flowers such as cascades, orchids and roses could be used for decorating the wedding cake; edible flowers too are excellent.

These flowers for the cake can be used all over the edges of a multi layered cake or they can be used as the cake topper as well.

A wedding is an affair where you normally do end up spending a fortune on various things so it would be great if you could cut down your budget on other things and a simple wedding cake would do just that. You can use the money you save here on other important things for your wedding.

Square Wedding Cake

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The above sqaure wedding cake has been iced and decorated with simple piping and fresh roses.

Tropical Wedding Cake

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This simple stacked wedding cake with fresh orchids with white scroll work are well suited for a tropical themed wedding.

Chocolate Wedding Cake

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A simple four tiered stacked chocolate wedding cake. Coated with chocolate icing and fresh flowers

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Two tiered chocolate wedding cake with fresh fruit for decoration.

Black and White Wedding Cake

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A very simple, yet elegant wedding cake. Four tiered all stacked on top of another with the bases of each cake decorated with black satin ribbon features a monogram on the third tier with a single flower on top.