Form and types of wedding cakes. How to decorate a wedding cake with figurines, fruits, chocolate and fresh flowers?

How to choose the idea and style of a wedding cake? What are the forms of wedding cakes and what color is the most relevant now?

Photo of beautiful wedding cakes. Mint, blue, peach and chocolate wedding cake

In order to emphasize the wedding, make it more colorful and original, often hired organizers of the celebration or the newlyweds themselves resort to the idea of ​​creating a wedding theme, using the themes of the cultural program, the color scheme of the wedding cortegeand solemn clothes.

It is very difficult to keep track of all the pre-wedding preparations and the program during the wedding, so the newlyweds are more likely to seek the help of specialists in outside matters, for example: about the elements of room decorations, accessories, hairstyles or about one of the most important elements at the wedding - wedding cakes.

wedding mint cakes

• The special charm of the wedding will help to make it a cake, it is able to personify the prosperity, creativity and hand of the master. Putting maximum effort into production, performing repetitive actions with jewelry precision, step by step, he creates not only a cake, but also contributes to creating a magical atmosphere on this loud day.
• The cake theme is selected individually for each wedding, but popular figures of cakesskilfully executed in mint, blue, peach and chocolate colors.
• As often they resort not only to the use of color quality, but recreate a full-fledged image and taste using chocolate, peppermint or peach

beautiful chocolate cakes

Forms of wedding cakes

Usually the shape of the cake is chosen based on the historical traditions of the family, either relying on ethnic culture, or completely alienated from all concepts based on something new or non-standard.

use of complex shapes and designs

Traditionally, cake shapes often stop on round and square shapes, as well as the corresponding forms of the heart, but the use of these forms since time begins to go to the background and forget.

Moving away from stereotypes, newlyweds choose more graceful or even grotesque forms for the wedding, which cause not only a desire to try the cake rather soon, but also a desire to consider in detail or even talk about it.

non-standard wedding cake

The tiered cake can be considered one of the most popular cakes ever. It is divided into several subspecies - one-tier and multi-tiered. Both those and others - a platform on which the hand of the master does not stop and will embody all unimaginable desires.

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How to decorate a wedding cake?

In the form of swans, edible flowers, rings, or any other elements of the surrounding life, sugar figures have become very popular and are actively used as decorations on holiday cakes.

variety of jewelry

Cakes can be decorated:

• using a similar contour of the bride's dress, creating a solemn image of the
• or using lace forms on
• dress to add beads of sugar to the surface of the
• cake with live colors along the circumference of the cake and on its
• surfaces with brightly festive ribbons
• with cloth or decorated tablecloth for tablewhich will be cake
• candles on the table or around the cake
• surrounding position, using for presentation a beautiful table, lighting and scenery on the walls of
• fruits, especially berries

specially dedicated and equipped for a festive cake table

It is also of great importance to cover the cake with a protective layer of a smooth surface. In order to preserve the juiciness, as well as the texture of the decorated cake, special coatings are used: marzipan coating, sugar glaze coating, chocolate paste, matt glaze coating.

Blue wedding cake, photo

Using both blue cakes and weddings in the blue styling marked the beginning of the desire of the newlyweds to depart from the traditional white color and try new ones close to white or more extravagant.

It is also very often that white color is left and even gives him a second life, but already in the form of ruches or roses on the surface of the cake. By combining these two styles, a new idea about wedding scales is formed and a great horizon opens for experiments.

The photos below show the types of cake styling, as well as the idea of ​​the shapes and unusual types of biscuits, ruches, the use of blue in cakes, as well as the cake design with blue flowers.

blue wedding cakes

using flowers and ribbons in wedding cakes

stacked square blue cakes

Chocolate wedding cake, photo

Creating a chocolate cake is a laborious task that requires high skill in working with chocolate and its forms. Despite the general idea of ​​the chocolate cake, it will be quite natural if, in addition to the chocolate cream and the chocolate glaze in the biscuit, an oil cream with jam or a lemon oil cream, or even replace it at all, will be used.

Chocolate cake can look chocolate only from the outside, but it does not create a bad reputation for it and on the contrary creates an unpredictable image. Chocolate cake is something that will help surprise guests and leave pleasant impressions.

large chocolate cake

unique chocolate cake from the walls of chocolate

cakes made of milk chocolate and berries

Mint wedding cake

Mint color is one of the most convenient and combining, with it you can use white, gold, soft pink, peach, beige, creamand even blue shades, which only underline the mint color, without distracting all attention.

To complement the image of mint cake, often confectioners resort to adding mint to cake, in all other cases it is no different from any other wedding cake.

beauty of minimalism and mint color

peppermint cake combined with gold color decorations

difference in height of tiers in mint cakes

Peach wedding cake

With the transition from the winter period, in the trend of 2016 the peach color appears which can be safely considered the personification of a fairy tale. He gives more spicy shades, and thanks to the use of gentle clarified tones, expresses the feeling of inexorably approaching spring.

In order to emphasize the peculiarity of the cake and its peach status, you can use peach cream and even peach particles inside. And using peaches in the decorative component, will definitely surprise the guests and help to remember for a long time the whole zest of this cake.

peach wedding cake

full atmosphere of reigning peach light

several original wedding cakes

It happens that peach blossom is combined with mint, turning the wedding celebration into a real ball of colors. This magical combination can identify the beauty of the opposite colors and their eternal rivalry for the title of the best color.

combining two colors

Photo of a wedding cake with fruit

For a fruit cake, there are no borders, you can choose any color or shade, ranging from light colors to bright neon.

The wedding fruit cake is able to carry a fresh taste and no less fresh attitude to those who will try it. By combining sour-sweet fruits, nuts and berries in a cake, you can create a whole variety of taste and impressions. Peaches, apricots, raspberries, strawberries - whatever you like, all this can become the decoration or filling of a wedding cake with fruit.

cake with open crusts and unusual fruit from above

berry cake

decorated fruit cake

Wedding cake with fresh flowers, photo

For all the holidays, festive events, flowers have become a gesture that symbolizes the person's attitude to the event, importance, honor and respect. In all other cases, they are considered a symbol of beauty, elegance and efficiency.

For the flowers at the wedding there is a parade, all of them in their guise flaunt themselves among themselves for the title of the best bouquet. And although initially it is known that the best bouquet at the culprit of this celebration, the bouquet on the wedding cake may be the second in the rating of bouquets.

small bouquet of fresh flowers on a cake

• To decorate a cake with flowers is not an easy task, it is necessary to take into account the specifics of colors, whether it is possible to use them for decorating edible products, if suddenly they can poison guests with pollen or oil or may contain pesticides harmful forof the human body
• Therefore, when preparing a cake, you need to consult a confectioner or florist, how to properly make a cake, serve a cake and when necessary before serving the cake guests need themSuch flowers as: lilies, lilies of the valley, tulips, orchids, roses, pink carnations, snowdrops and many others, contain toxins and therefore are not recommended as a decoration for food.
• At that time such flowers as: cornflower, chamomile, chicory, chervil, chrysanthemum, daisy, jasmine, do not contain harmful substances that have a negative effect on the human body.

It should also take into account that many people have an allergy to flowers and choose the design for the cake very neatly and according to the requests of guests.

wedding cake with live decorated flowers

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Wedding cakes with the bride and groom, photo

According to the old tradition, the bride and groom as a sign of the future good life and sweet beginning, must make their figurines and arrange for the weddingthem beautifully on the top of the cake.

Figures are made of different materials, which helps them to be divided into edible and inedible. For example: figurines of sugar and figurines of polymer clay.

satirical image of the bridegroom who wants to escape from the wedding

In traditional conditions - these are the figures of husband and wife standing side by side, which emphasize their attitude, to each other holding hands.

Like many other symbols, their main goal is to show how important this event is for the newlyweds, what they are ready to go to and what to sacrifice for the sake of creating a marriage and a family.

figurine of the bride and groom in the form of characters from the cartoons

Over time, the original meaning of this tradition begins to disappear and the newlyweds with a personal approach begin to come up with their own form of cake figurines, choosing more original poses and current situations.

figures of the bride and groom dancing tango

This changes the general idea of ​​the wedding, makes it more informal and individual, emphasizing the personal merits and taste of the newlyweds.

snowmen husband and wife

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