Unique Wedding Cake Ideas: Cupcakes, Cheesecake, Dessert Assortments, Chocolate Fondue, Tiered Cakes And Chocolate Fountains

“In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums,” said Douglas Jerrold. The wedding cake has come to symbolize the sweet foundation of love that a marriage is built upon. Wedding cakes have been a tradition since medieval times and it is even recorded that at Roman weddings a cake was dropped on the head of the bride. This is a tradition well forgotten yet one must wonder whether couples who smear cake on each other's faces aren't hearkening back to that tragic folly of pastry past. Many couples today are seeking unique wedding cake ideas to help make their wedding memorable.

Unique wedding cake ideas include novel ideas for the traditional tiered wedding cake design. Themes are popular such as an oriental theme in which the cake might be covered in orchids, or a perhaps an elegant jewel theme with edible jewels encrusting the cake. Unique wedding cake ideas may be enhanced with modern technology that allows the designer to replicate the china place setting design on the base of the cake. Designer created cakes can be an expensive option, but can make unique wedding cake ideas come to life. Expect to pay a per guest charge for a designer cake in the neighborhood of $11 with a minimum of around $600.

Unique wedding cake ideas require great skill to assemble. One of the most skillful of unique wedding cake ideas that is both pleasing to the eyes and original is the cupcake wedding cake. Among unique wedding cake ideas a tiered wedding cake using cupcakes is visually intriguing and colorful. It mimics the tiered cake design and produces a floral arrangement effect. Among the unique wedding cake ideas, a cupcake wedding cake is economical and is often combined with a smaller wedding cake on top of the tiered design combining the economy of cupcakes with the elegance of a professionally decorated cake. Expect to pay about $80 for a stand and then just buy some mix and frosting and get baking!

Unique wedding cake ideas include the decadent chocolate fondue. The most popular way to present this concept is in a chocolate fountain that can be rented along with the other supplies. These are tiered fountains that literally cascade melted chocolate down a series of falls into a collection bowl where the guests use skewers to dip fruit in the chocolate. Of all the unique wedding cake ideas this is perhaps the most practical because rental of a full service fountain for a chocolate fondue includes the fountain, chocolate, skewers, and even an attendant and costs approximately $400.

A cheesecake wedding cake is among the most delectable of all unique wedding cake ideas. A cheesecake can be erected into a tiered wedding cake design in the same fashion as a traditional cake, however, it takes a talented baker because cheesecake often cracks when it cools. Another consideration with cheesecake wedding cake is that it is made of cheese and guests who can't tolerate milk products may decline. These cakes can be among the more costly of the unique wedding cake ideas, with per guest charges and high minimums.

Couples sometimes supplement their unique wedding cake ideas by providing a dessert assortment. This option offers each guest choices while reducing the size of the cake required, thereby reducing costs. Dessert assortments can include a full buffet dessert table or simple cookie platters on individual tables. Either option provides sweet alternatives for wedding guests.

Unique wedding cake ideas are only limited by the couple's imagination, daring, and budget. Whatever the choice, as the Roman writer Plautus said, “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” But not sweet words alone, also sweet morsels cut from a wedding cake symbolic of all that is beautiful about marriage.


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