Wedding Cake Designs and Styles

There are many wedding cake designs available and you are only limited by your imagination.

To create your own wedding cake involves selecting elements that complement your wedding theme while keeping in mind the number of guest you will need to serve.

Before you go and make your own wedding cake or give your wedding cake ideas to your baker spend some time gathering lots of wedding cake decorating ideas.

You don't have to go for a traditional wedding cake design of a 3 tier wedding cake with wedding cake topper tops of a bride and groom. You can go wild with your ideas for a modern wedding cake.

Start by looking at pictures of wedding cakes, online is a great place to start or browse though bridal magazines or visit wedding cake bakeries.

Gather unique wedding cake ideas that will inspire your own individual wedding cake. It might be the way the details from a wedding gown have been incorporated into the cake design or how a treasured family cake topper has been displayed.

Make simple sketches of the design you like, these don't have to be perfect, it is just a way for you to see them come together.

Remember, the more detail that you have on your cake will increase the overall cost of the cake, this is due to the amount of labor needed to create the cake.

Select the size of your cake by the number of guest you will need to serve; to work this out see our handy cake portion chart.

Include non-edible design items, such as decorative columns or crystal glasses to lift each tier and add height to the cake or use silk or real flowers to decorate the tops and sides of the cake.

Icing is another design element that you should consider the traditional buttercream which is soft and tasty and can easily be textured or you could opt to use rolled fondant icing which will give a smooth satiny finish.

Choosing a wedding cake flavor is something that you can experiment with. A chocolate wedding cake recipe with vanilla is a popular choice. Try a strawberry cheesecake wedding cake for a summer wedding. Ask your baker to recommend flavor combinations and taste test these.

One way to save on money at the wedding reception is to go for a dessert style wedding cake and serve this as the dessert. The portions cut from this type of cake is usually larger than traditional wedding cakes, your cake may cost a little more but you will be cutting down on costs by not having a dessert

Wedding Cake Designs Ideas

Tropical Cakes	Cup Cakes	Unique Cakes
Creative Cakes	Beautiful Cakes	Shell Cakes
Choc Cakes	Square Cakes	Grooms Cakes
Western Cakes	Simple Cakes	Fondant Cakes
Black-White Cakes	Small Cakes	Tiffany Cakes
Butterfly Cakes	Fake Cakes	Cake Flower Pictures