Inspiring Edible Wedding Cake Decoration Ideas

If you're baking your own wedding cake or a friend is generously doing it for you or if you are ordering it from your local bakery, you can plan for any shape of cake and edible wedding cake decoration. Edible wedding cake decoration can make your cake look special without much effort and investment.

First of all, your cake needs to be level. If individual layers are fairly level, you can stack them with frosting, put filling in between with the tops together, giving a very even outer surface for the frosting. Now it's time for your edible wedding cake decoration.

There are many items that you can use in your edible wedding cake decoration, such as fruits, nuts, candy, cookies, sugar crystals, edible paint, sparkling edible glitter and even flowers.

Depending upon the season and your budget you can have fresh/ frozen fruits in your cake. Either they can be used as filler or as decorations. We all have heard of strawberry cakes. Many berries are considered to be used as edible wedding cake decoration, such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries.

Another favorite choice of decoration in cakes is nuts, though not so much for edible wedding cake decoration. Wedding cakes usually are decorated with flowers are other figure/items signifying the marriage. Sugar is the baker’s delight. He / she can make any figure from sugar. Sugar can be melted and reset to form shapes or it can be mixed with butter, cream or cheese to make tasty toppings.

Decorated flowers can made from sugar and color can be added to them. These colors are edible. The color can be mixed to the sugar before making the flowers or as many bakers do, paint the flowers later. These flowers can sometimes be made well in advance and stored before the actual ceremony.

If you wish you can use edible flowers too for your edible wedding cake decoration. However, remember you should use them if they are organically grown. If you can't pick the flowers the day of the wedding, store them, except for chicory, on plates in your fridge with a bit of water.

There are many flowers which you can use like Chicory - it offers a spicy bitter taste, or Lavender – it has a perfumed taste or Nasturtium which has a peppery taste. One of the popular choices is rose which offers a mild sweet taste. Another sweet tasting flower is the Pansy.

Not only do these flowers offer taste or fragrance, they create a visual appeal for the cake. You can get roses and pansy in your choice of color. Nasturtium comes in warm color while chicory and lavender come in colors of purple and lavender. If you wish for a pink color you can go in for oregano and marjoram.

After all the preparation you have done and not to mention the money you have spent for a beautiful and elaborate edible wedding cake decoration, you wouldn’t want it fall apart, tilt or melt away. Unfortunately, this scenario occurs all too often, especially at summer weddings, but it can be prevented. However, don’t worry. Rescue is on your way. With the following few simple steps you can ensure that your cake will stay good till the end of your ceremony:

• By considering your location, choose a cake that works best in that location. For example, if you are having your ceremony on a boat, avoid a cake with pillars between the layers. It is more likely to tip or collapse than those in which the layers are stacked on top of one another or placed on individual pedestals.
• Incase you have the ceremony outdoors, first place the cake in a refrigerator. If refrigeration is not an option keep the cake indoors or at least in the shade.
• Or better, have the cake delivered as late as possible so that it doesn’t stand for several hours before being cut.
• Place the cake in a level position. Check the legs of the table you are going to place the cake on; otherwise, the layers may tip or slide.