The Search for Your Wedding Cake

Cakes By Gina

Through our experiences, research and expeditions as a wedding planner and coordinator, we have gotten the opportunity to see some fascinating wedding cakes. When you are ready to start selecting your wedding cake, get an idea about flavors you like and designs that appeal to you. Ask the professionals about cake flavor and cake filling combinations. Also, ask about how your selected baker does fondants and butter cream icings. Don't believe everything you hear about the taste of fondant or the so-called limitations of butter cream. See actual designs and taste actual samples to determine what you, your fiance and your guests will enjoy.

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Choosing The Right Cake Presentation  (excerpt from Chiff.com)

A wedding cake is a personal choice. Today's couples choose cakes that reflect their personality and lifestyle. The bride who chooses to wear her mother's wedding gown will probably value the same sort of traditional display when it comes to the cake. Chances are that the bride and groom who choose bold colors or miniskirts for the bridesmaids will want a the same non-traditional statement when it comes to cake design.

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Traditional cakes are tiered and white, but many couples are foregoing the classical cake in favor of more modern and elaborate pastry. Cake designers offer a wide range of cake flavors, fillings, colors, heights, shapes, toppers and other decorations to make your wedding cake truly an original.

Some brides incorporate their dress patterns or the wedding colors into the cake design. Others drape the cake with real flowers or sugar imitations of the bridal flowers Many couple are going with a nontraditional tier arrangement, so you may see a table decorated with tiers at various heights instead of a towering cake. 

Individual or "table cakes" have made an appearance in the last few years and are frequently chosen by modern brides. A cluster of wedding cupcakes or petite, individual cakes to serve the guests with a small bridal cake for the cutting ceremony is another trendy alternative.

Other decorations may include real ribbons or faux fondant ribbons, jewelry, actual functioning water fountains and odd shaped or mismatched tiers added to create the wedding cake. As brides move away from the traditional white, designers are seeing more dark chocolate as frostings although some sweet loving couples will use white chocolate to have their favorite flavor and still keep the traditional white frosting look.

Take a look around in bridal magazines and online to see what the trends are and when you find a look that matches you... take a photo or drawing to the designer to show exactly what you have in mind.

Hope you find the above information helpful in your quest for your perfect wedding cake.

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