Wedding Cakes - Discover Your Options
By: Eugena Anthony
Are you planning your wedding and reception and decided that you’ll just go with a simple white three tiered wedding cake? Sure that is what most people would choose, but do you even want your cake to be like everyone elses? There are so many ways that you can make your cake stand out from all the rest.
Instead of just having a white pound cake covered in traditional icing you could have a different flavored cake. You could choose to have strawberry short cake or chocolate cake instead of pound cake. Or you could have different types of cake for each tier. For instance you could have a layer of rum cake and then a layer of carrot cake. Adding raspberry filling or nuts can make your cake really stand out.
White is the traditional color for wedding cakes but you could be a lot more creative and choose a different color or two . . . or three. I’ve seen a Arab themed wedding where the cake was made to look like pillows in different colors like pink, purple, and fuchsia. A celebrity recently had a Tiffany jewelry themed wedding in which the cake looked like a stack of tiffany blue boxes.
Even if you decide to go with a more traditional wedding cake you could decide to use a beautiful cake topper to add some zest to your cake design. I have seen toppers that glow, play music and even spin around. You could do a comical topper with the bride dragging the groom or go more elegant with a monogram cake topper. Monogram toppers come in several different materials and can even be dressed with crystals to make it sparkle.
If you are not a fan of regular wedding cake you can opt for cupcakes. You can choose a lot of the same cake flavors and icing choices that are available for traditional wedding cakes. You could even decide to dress them up and give them out as favors to your guests. You might even want to consider having individual or mini cakes to hand out to your guests either in place of or along with a traditional wedding cake.
You should think very carefully about the kind of dessert that you would want to serve to your guests at your wedding reception. Do not limit yourself or your imagination because your wedding cake could end up being the talk of the party.
You can find more wedding cake ideas and several photos and examples at A Wedding Reception to Remember. Eugena Anthony created A Wedding Reception to Remember to offer advice and give ideas to help couples plan the perfect wedding reception. Visit us at http://www.a-wedding-reception.com/wedding-cake-design-idea.html.