The Wedding Cake

The Wedding Cake

Your wedding cake plays an important part in your reception celebration, since it stands second to the bride! It is the ultimate symbol of love when you feed each other a bit of cake as a sign of love and trust. It stands tall and elegant as an attractive tasty focal point of the reception table. It is prominently displayed and served to your honored guests. Your cake will be photographed and remembered for long even after your wedding. Don’t choose the cake in the last minute! Plan as ahead as you can, so that you have a wonderful cake, color coordinated with your wedding theme. Here is what you need to know to make it all come together.

Why wedding cakes?

The wedding cake is a custom that is used as an eternal symbol of good luck and fertility. The wish represented by the cake is “Let us break bread together and wish for each other love, happiness & prosperity.” The Romans used a loaf of bread broken over the brides head as a wish of fertility. The Chinese had the custom of passing a piece of cake to each guest as a way to distribute the good luck.

Tips to buy a Wedding Cake

Personalize your wedding cake with decorations and festive toppings like figurines, flowers, different flavors, sugar decorations.Cakes are becoming more artistic and more individualized. You can choose to have a heart shaped cake, a square cake, a hexagonal shape, or any combination. Most bakeries will let you sample their choices of frosting and some even prepare a small grooms cake for you. Look through their cake portfolio to see what styles are available. If you cannot find one that you like, go through cake decoration books and magazines for ideas.

The cakes can be stacked one on top of the other, or they can have separators between them. The separators consist of a plastic bottom plate with columns in various styles that snap onto it and a second plastic plate that fits snugly on top. These separator sets can normally be rented from the bakery.

White cake is the evergreen favorite choice for everyone. You can get a white cake for the largest tier, and a chocolate cake for the one above it. Multi-flavor wedding cakes are more popular now than ever.

In order to be white, wedding cake icing must be made with variety of colors to match your wedding format, or choose to have it all white. If you are OK with an ivory colored cake, then butter icing is a good choice. Flavorful and beautiful, pure butter icing is fantastic on a cake. Carrot cakes and spice cakes are becoming more popular. You can also choose to have different layers with different flavors.

When looking for a bakery/cake decorator, ask others if they have any recommendations. Ask questions when you interview various bakers. Usually bakers have photos of prior work or will create a cake of your own design. You can elegantly decorate your wedding cake with a cascade of roses and baby’s breath sweeping down the side. It will be really gorgeous and also you can choose the flowers to match the color theme of your wedding.

There is something called a wedding cake ornament, that you will place at the top of the cake. It can be like a bouquet of flowers or like spun glass and doves.Once ready with your wedding cake, all you need to prepare now is the cake table. It should be large enough to hold the cake, plates, napkins and utensils. Plan for a table cloth to be on the table and spread it ready for the cake arrival. You may add candles in crystal holders to the table as well.