WINTER WEDDING CAKES

The Perfect Cake for Your Winter Wedding  

Choosing your wedding cake is one of the highlight of a wedding. For a winter wedding, there are many cool ideas to reflect the winter season in your wedding cake. If you have a baker who can do anything to your heart desires, then you can take your creativity to another level.

The first thing to have to decide on your winter wedding cake is the filling of the cake. What type of filling would you prefer? All time favorite chocolate or traditional vanilla? What about banana bread filling or a black forest cake? Think about the flavors of the season. If you want, you can have an apple flavor added to the filling between the cake layers. If you have a mixed crowd, then you might want to have a several tiered cake with different flavors for each layer.

After picking the filling of the cake, now you can decide how you want your cake to look. One great idea to reflect the winter season has to be snowflakes, candy canes, falling stars or winter flowers on the icing. If you have a good baker working with you, you may want to talk to him or her about wrapping the cake in blue fondant and create a winter wonderland ice skating pond with the bride and groom on top. You may also decide to put your cake up on tiers and have a bit of marzipan holly wrap its way up the cake and when it gets to the top it has created your new  monogram with its vines.

If you need to get some inspiration for your winter wedding cake, you can check out any bridal magazine in your local book stores. Most of these magazines covers the topic of wedding cakes. You should also visit the cooking and decorating section of your local bookstore. You may just find the perfect cake that you want in a home and garden style book about winter which has nothing to do with weddings but with some added imagination and a few extra layers, it can turn out to be the cake of your dreams.

This is an idea you might want to consider. One way to reflect the winter season in your wedding cake is probably not to have a cake at all. Can you remember the feeling and what it was like when your grandmother laid out a myriad of pies on the dining room table after Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner.

You can choose to have a confections table where there are a wide assorted variety of winter pies waiting for your guests to savor for dessert. You could have a very formal dinner where everyone is seated and served but then for desert everyone gets to head up buffet style and choose his or her own tasty sweet.

Instead of a cake you might also think about doing cupcakes at your winter wedding reception. The cupcakes could have little snowflakes falling on top of their icing. The baker could set up all the cupcakes so that they looked like mini presents waiting for everyone to enjoy them. You could also set up a different desert on every table as the centerpiece. By doing this people would get their own little treat and it would encourage them to visit other tables to see what they think that they would enjoy.