Know Your Wedding Cake Designs

Choosing between wedding cake designs can take some thought. You might think that all you have to choose is the cake that looks best to you, but you also have to consider how many people the cake will serve and whether you want fruit, sponge or chocolate. Plus, you want to choose a cake design that will fit with the theme of your wedding, whether it's modern and funky or traditional and sweet.

The basics

The most basic part of wedding cake designs are the shapes that are used to build the cake. Unless you go with a very artistic - and probably expensive - bakery, you'll pretty much be able to choose between round layers and square layers. Round layers give a more traditional look, and square layers are used more often in contemporary designs.

One of the main differences between these two styles is how many people they'll serve. Usually, you can get a lot more pieces out of a square cake than you can a round one. A 6" round cake can serve about twenty people, but a 6" square cake can serve about twenty-five. This is just one example, and depending on the size of the cake you will usually get between five and ten extra servings out of a square cake than the same-sized round cake.

Modern wedding cake designs

If your wedding is going to feel fun and contemporary, your cake should reflect that. Here are a few of the modern designs that are popular right now:

Traditional wedding cake designs

Traditional designs are simpler, but they can still be really versatile. You can have the cake’s layers stacked directly on top of one another, or you can stack them on pillars. Either way, these cakes are often decorated in flowers and icing beads that match the colours of your wedding.

Cheesecake wedding cakes

These less traditional cakes can actually be made to look like either modern or traditional wedding cakes. They can be decorated and stacked on pillars or in other interesting ways.

An interesting twist on this idea is to create a cake made not of cheesecake but of cheese rounds. Like cheesecake, the rounds can be decorated, and you can offer your guests a surprising, savory treat instead of something sweet.

Looking at different wedding cake designs, you might feel a little overwhelmed. One way to decide what you want is to look at pictures of lots of different cakes. Don't forget to take price and serving sizes into account, too, though!

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