Wedding Cake Designs: Square, Round, Tiered, Stacked And Hexagonal

Planning for a wedding is difficult work that often involves creating invitations, ordering flowers, booking musicians, and on and on. To find the perfect wedding cake seems like just another hassle, right? Wrong! Although there are seemingly endless possibilities for wedding cake designs these days, online resources allow couples to peruse a variety of wedding cake designs for inspiration and more easily find a wedding cake to match their needs.

One of the best places to start a search for the perfect wedding cake is TheKnot.com's wedding cake gallery. This web page provides a good look at some of the wedding cake designs that have graced nuptials of many diverse themes. For a modern, trendy wedding, a square wedding cake might be the way to go. Clean, simple lines with bold colors and shapes stand out clearly on the square wedding cake. A more traditional wedding usually calls for a round wedding cake, but that doesn't mean it needs to be boring. Any tiered wedding cake with a cascade design (usually flowers that circle around the cake in a winding pattern) can be made to be perfectly worthy of oohs and aahs. And The Knot's search feature to "Find a cake to suit your wedding style, " is a great tool to use when simply trying to get some ideas of wedding cake designs.

However, another way is to search for ideas for wedding cake designs based on shape rather than theme, and a fine place to scope is eWeddingCake.com. At this site, one can find multiple wedding cake designs such as a square wedding cake (with tiers stacked at angles or straight), a round wedding cake (also known as a simple cake ), and even hexagonal cake designs. In addition to viewing a number wedding cake designs, a bonus to visiting this site is uncovering all kinds of wedding cake accessories. Wedding cake charms, strung on ribbons that are nestled in the cake, can be a fun way of getting the wedding party involved. (Charms are pulled from the cake by bridesmaids as symbols of good luck or keepsakes.) Images of wedding cake servers and knives and wedding cake toppers are also readily available.

Something else to consider during the selection process, and another element of wedding cake designs, is whether the wedding calls for a stacked wedding cake or a tiered wedding cake. The stacked wedding cake is one in which the layers are directly on top of one another. The tiered wedding cake is one in which there are columns separating each layer of the cake. While the tiered cake is still seen at receptions, a stacked wedding cake generally seems to the favored choice these days in wedding cake designs.

And don't forget that choosing a cake not only involves considering wedding cake designs, but also the flavor or flavors of a cake. From fruit-filled cakes to chocolate layers, it is wise to know what sort of palate to delight. eWeddingCake.com also has an extensive selection of wedding cake recipes to choose from, even for those more specialized cakes like Mexican or French wedding cakes. And of course, specialized cakes can open up a whole new door to wedding cake designs that may have not been contemplated before.

Prices for wedding cakes vary depending on the level of difficulty involved in the wedding cake designs as well as baking and decorating the cakes. Size is also a factor. A basic tiered wedding cake and a simple design can be as inexpensive as a couple of dollars per slice. The more elaborate a cake, the pricier it will be.

From hexagonal wedding cakes to tiny cake toppers, clearly, there is more to wedding cake designs and creations than meets the eye. However, personal preference aided by a little bit of Internet guidance can allow anyone to find the most beautiful and delicious cake for his or her wedding.


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