With a tropical wedding theme, your wedding will be one that everyone
will enjoy and remember forever. You can decorate your wedding cake in
a tropical theme that will compliment the wedding setting.
In the Caribbean the wedding cake is usually made from fruit, these
cakes are often dark and decorated with dried fruits. These cakes can
be flavored with rum, wine and sherry.
In Bermuda, it is traditional to place cedar saplings on top of the
wedding cakes which symbolizes a growing love between the newly weds.
The saplings are then replanted after the ceremony.
If you are having more than one tier, consider having each tier a
different flavor.
Flavor Ideas for a Tropical Theme Wedding Cake
Here are a few flavor ideas that can be used individually or combined
as the cake flavor and frosting flavor.
Coconut
Banana
Lilikoi (Hawaiian passion fruit)
Rum or banana-rum
Mango
Lemon
Pineapple
Guava
Macdamia nut
Fresh tropical fruit can be used as a filling
or
combined with cream which can be placed in each layer.
Tropical Theme Wedding Cake Ideas
Use blue swirls
of gel to create waves rising
up the
sides of each tier.
Molded edible
shells and miniature tropical
fruit can
be made from marzipan.
Royal icing can
be piped onto the cake to look
like a
net with shells inside.
Use a bamboo
mat to decorate the top of the
cake
table.
Use leaves and
tie these into bows which can
then be
used to decorate the cake table.
Use toasted,
grated coconut on white butter
cream
icing to create a sandy look.
Have the cake
made into the shape of a sand
castle
and decorate it with edible seashells and star fish.
Decorate a cake
with fresh hibiscus flowers.
Orchids can
cascade from the top of a tiered
cake.
Sugar plumerias
flowers could be scattered
freely on
the cake and around the cake table.
Fresh or hand
crafted flowers can form draping
leis
around each tier.
Larger tropical
flowers such as bird of
paradise
could be
added to fresh-flower holders in between the tiers. Make sure that the
flowers or stems with toxins are not in direct contact with your cake.
