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Wedding cakes aren’t all they used to be. They’re more. To find a truly unique wedding cake, it is necessary to look for unique shades in shape, flavor, and decorations. Here are tips and ideas for making your wedding cake unique.
Shape
Round or square: round and square cakes are the most traditional. They can be made unique by finding different ways to showcase them or put them together. Try a square gift cake with each layer wrapped in fondant icing to look like a present.
Hexagonal cakes are slightly more unique. They have several sharp edges and can be piled high for a unique looking cake.
A petal cake has scalloped edges, but doesn’t have to look like a flower. Use stripes and contrasting colors to use this shape to its highest advantage.
A French design for a wedding cake is a tier of marzipan- or cream-filled pastry piled high to look like a tree or tower. While popular around the world, it isn’t as well-known in the United States and would be unique at a wedding there.
A topsy-turvy cake has alternating, slanted layers. It looks like a cake Alice might have found in Wonderland. Designs like this one stand out from the crowd.
A great way to make a unique wedding cake is to make one from a freeform design. Have a cake shaped like an apple, a face, a city, or a garden. These kinds of cakes are becoming more popular as shows like Ace of Cakes bring them into the limelight.
Flavor
There are so many unique flavors, they only need to be listed. Wedding cakes can come in these and hundreds of other flavors: almond, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, walnut, cardamom, ginger, lavender, cheese, lemon, chocolate/peanut butter, cookies and cream, licorice, chocolate and raspberry, banana, pina colada, coconut, tres leches, chocolate mint, lemon with raspberry filling, red velvet, marzipan raspberry, lemon poppyseed, pumpkin, mocha, carrot, chocolate zucchini, blueberry, cherry, caramel, peach, bavarian creme, boston creme, mocha, orange creamsicle, cherry chocolate chip, hazelnut cream, Mexican chocolate, and caramel apple. Choose one or more flavors per tier of cake to give guests a unique culinary experience.
Decorations
Choosing unique decorations for a wedding cake is another way to set it apart from the pack. Wedding toppers aren’t just about bride and groom figurines anymore. Put a snow globe or sculpted tree atop your cake. Decorate the cake with live, stenciled, or sculpted flowers. Photographs of the bridal couple can be transformed into icing images and layered around the edges for a unique design. For something really different, make the entire cake a sculpture itself of books, a car, a tree, or a bust of the bride.
Break the mold
Who says a wedding cake must be layers of fluffy cake with cream and icing? Choose cheesecake, sundae bar, individual tarts, chocolate covered fruits, fruit sculpture, tiramisu, or a tower of petit-fours for your wedding “cake” and your guests will talk for days about your unique choice of wedding cake.
Whatever you choose, make it something you will enjoy. A wedding is about celebrating both the individuality and the union of the bridal couple. Choose flavors, decorations, and design you both love, and your cake will be a hit.
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Source by Misha Anatolia
