Foodie couples are onto something when it comes to wedding cakes. They are choosing flavors that they personally love and creating a whole new experience for their guests. Going way beyond making a visual statement with a towering, round wedding cake, they are actually deconstructing that cake into all different shapes, sizes and colors. While the traditional, tiered white wedding cake is beautiful in its own right, it’s not every couple’s dream dessert.
Here are three major trends bakeries and caterers are serving up:
Cupcakes
Cupcakes have been lauded for their perfection as the ultimate personalized dessert. Portion-perfect, perfectly round, practically perfect in every way (as Mary Poppins would agree!). Caterers and wedding bakers with an eye toward the unconventional are using cupcake tree stands and custom cupcakes. Couples may continue the cake-cutting tradition with a much smaller, sweetheart cake. Then they surround the cake with designer cupcakes inspired by other wedding style elements, such as wedding invitations, venue, theme, colors, and more.
Deconstructed Wedding Cake
This is really what it sounds like–taking apart the tiers of a wedding cake! The fun is to create different cake tiers that might not work in a single cake, mixing up flavors, colors, and frosting in a visually coordinated but unexpected way. Bakers experienced in doing this, such as Magnolia Bakery in New York, typically arrange the cakes in a collage style on the wedding cake table, displaying the cakes in an asymmetrical fashion on stands of different heights.
Custom Dessert Bars
While some couples are scrapping the wedding cake altogether, some are just adding on custom dessert delicacies. Cake pops, macaroons, and infused strawberries come to mind. Others want a more personally appealing dessert, such as ice cream sundaes, a favorite fruit pie, cheesecake or gourmet pastries. These couples are looking for something else that better reflects their unique tastes, a special wedding theme, or the seasonal or regional specialty of their wedding date and location.
Wedding Invitations to Inspire Your Cake
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