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Tasty And Tasteful Wedding Cakes


Bite-Sized Advice to Help You Choose the Perfect Wedding Cakes

Wedding Cakes - Size

The size of your wedding cakes should be relative to the number of wedding guests you are expecting and whether you are serving the wedding cake as a dessert in its own right or as an accompaniment to coffee. For dessert, allow a 5cm square per person. For coffee, allow a 2.5cm square per person and do not include the top tier of the cake in your calculations as it is generally kept until the first anniversary of your wedding day.

Wedding Cakes - Theme

Traditional wedding cakes were long-lasting, hearty fruitcakes with firm white icing that symbolised the solidity of marriage. However, as fruitcakes are now considered 'passe', couples are free to theme in a manner that reflects their personalities or something meaningful to them. Did your fiance propose in winter? Are you having an ethnic wedding? Nati's Cakes has specially created wedding cakes especially for Chinese brides and grooms iced in red (the Chinese lucky colour) and adorned with the Chinese double happiness symbol to bring good fortune. Visit their website for other uniquely themed wedding cakes.

Wedding Cakes - Flavour

Why settle for wedding fruitcake when you can have chocolate mud cake, vanilla sponge, marble, lemon, or carrot with poppy seeds? The cake fillings are getting exotic too with raspberry, coconut, strawberry, lemon, mocha and white chocolate cream also on offer. Some couples opt for two separate wedding cakes, a bride's cake and a groom's cake, giving wedding guests a choice of flavours.

Wedding Cakes - Decorations

Ditch the plastic bride and groom because the choices in wedding cake decorations are endless now. Ribbons, tulle and sugar flowers remain much requested decorative items but featuring the same fresh flowers on your wedding cake as those in your wedding bouquet has become extremely popular too. You can even match the wedding dress as new icing techniques mean bakers can decorate in the emulation of embroidery, lace, applique or elegant drapes and insert pearl or beading detail also.

For more unique ideas visit Bride Online at the links above and find local providers of the ultimate wedding cakes. Don't forget to browse our directory of wedding caterers who can match all your wedding banquet courses to your specific bridal theme.