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1. Design the cake to match the Deal with the cake after all decisions about dress style and reception decor have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the design and structure of your wedding cake. Choose a cake that's compatible with the venue's style, the season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want coloured accents (such as sugar flowers or icing ribbons), give your baker sample fabric swatches. The cake should be part of the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
2. Have a multi-flavoured cake! This is a great option if you can’t decide between one flavour or another, or if you want to give your guests a selection of cakes to choose from. If you will be having three layers of cake, you could have a layer of mud cake, a layer of vanilla cake and a layer of rainbow cake, something for everyone!
3. For some extra flavour, have a wedding cake with filling. Talk to your baker about having a filling made of white or dark chocolate, strawberry, mocha or preserves.
4. What about using a modern type of icing? While the traditional soft white icing is still very popular, white chocolate icing would be a delicious, and surprising, alternative.
5. Have a wedding cake with an unusual shape. At the moment, one very popular style is to have a wedding cake that resembles a stack of presents. This is a fun cake, and generally has two or more square layers, is heavily decorated and tied with a bow.
6. For a modern looking wedding cake, think about having your layers made in different shapes. For example, a square layer, a heart shaped layer and an hexagonal layer would make your cake modern indeed.
7. If your wedding will be having a colour scheme, decorate your cake to suit. If your colour scheme will be rose pink, you could cover your cake with small, romantic, pink rosebuds, either real or made of icing!
8. For a special touch, talk to your baker about using some of the detail on your wedding dress to make decorations for your cake. If you take a picture of your dress to your bakery they should be able to copy some of the lace, beading or other decorations from your dress onto your wedding cake.
9. Get sentimental! Copy the cake top your grandparents or parents used at their wedding. To make the parents of the happy couple feel extra special, serve them the first slices of cake you cut yourself, before it is taken to the kitchen to be cut and served to your guests.
10. Personalize your cake by having your, and the groom’s, initials intertwined in icing on your cake as decoration.
11. Have a wedding cake with a special meaning. For example, if you have been to France together, you may like to have a croquembouche. This is the traditional French wedding cake, a yummy tower of cream-filled pastry!
12. You may like to follow a special wedding cake tradition practiced in Bermuda. With this tradition, a tiny green tree is used as a cake topper. After the wedding, the bride and groom can plant the tree in their garden and watch it grow, as their marriage does!
13. Add some accompaniments to your cake for your extra sweet-toothed guests. Chocolates, fruit, sugared almonds or lilies can be placed on your guests’ plates for a decorative touch.
14. The look of the moment is a wedding cake decorated with fresh flowers. Some favourites include roses, carnations and pansies. These flowers can be made into cascade designs or other styles. For a simply stunning look, have one single, perfect, bloom on your cake, such as a lily or orchid. Using fresh flowers to decorate your cake looks great and need not cost a fortune. If you're using fresh blooms, triple-check with your florist that they have not been sprayed with pesticides. Make sure all inedible decorative elements are removed before the cake is sliced and served.
15. Even if you take the most painstaking packaging measures, eating the top tier of your cake on your first anniversary sounds far better than it tastes. Think about indulging on your two-week anniversary, and treat yourself to a fresh cake in the same flavor when you've survived the first year. If you must adhere to tradition, wrap the cake in plastic wrap, then bag it in an airtight baggie. Never use aluminum foil -- it won't protect against freezerburn because it's not an airtight material.