The Bride’s Heart

There are many super wedding cake ideas available both on line and at independent high street bakeries. If you are lucky enough to have a free rein on your spending then go for it, but otherwise try to keep within your budget. Your mom and your long lost aunt will be there putting forward their suggestions and offering you all sorts of advice about how your cake should be traditional, but at the end of the day, this is your wedding, and it’s your cake!

Here are just some of the options open to you when choosing your cake.

First of all, your wedding cake really should be color co-ordinated with everything else about your reception and its theme. It catches the eye of everyone attending the reception and will appear on most of the wedding photographs. Therefore, along with matching everything else, it should be a sign of your personal style and taste.

So, if chocolate is your thing, then a chocolate wedding cake it should be! In milk or plain varieties, as a whole cake, a cluster of truffles or a mountain of profiteroles, the only concern here is keeping it away from your beautiful dress.

Like your mom and aunt, you may well feel that a traditional style cake is more your style, rich in fruit and topped with crisp white icing. These usually come decorated with silver horseshoes, wedding bells and a miniature bride and groom placed sweetly on the top of the cake. As an alternative to the bride and groom decoration, if you and your partner share a particular hobby, say for example, motorcycling, you could have a unique theme adorning the top of your cake.

You should also consider whether or not your cake will be the only dessert on the table. If this is the case, one kind of cake is not going to please all the guests. This is where a multi layered cake of different fillings is a choice you may wish to make. In this way you could have a traditional fruit, icing topped cake at the bottom, followed by a jam and cream filled sponge sandwich styled cake as the middle tier, and finished off with a light and fruity cheesecake on the top. Not only will this cake taste absolutely fabulous, but it will be full of colour and a major talking point for years to come.

The choices available to you as ideas for your wedding cake are endless, but just remember, it’s your day and, of course, it should be your say!