Cake Decorating For Weddings

Cake decorating for weddings is the ultimate! Wedding cake ideas from an award winning cake decorator! Free!!!

Hi my name is Lorelie. I have been embellishing wedding cakes for over 25 years. With requests from the very simple to the very complex I have a wide range of ideas to share and hopefully spark your creativity.

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Wedding Cake Decorating Ideas

Today's cakes come in many guises. They can be decorated with sugarpaste, shaped into packages or created from many tiers of cheescake, cupcakes or literally any cake of your fancy.

Easy Cake Decorating For Weddings

• Textured icing
• Basketweaving
• Frosted fruit

Examples of seasonal fruits that are easy to use on a wedding cake:

White and dark cherries, red or white currants, black currants, apricots or tiny plums or pears. Or:

• Toasted almonds, pecans, or walnuts.
• Toasted or untoasted coconut.

Recipe for frosting fruit

Castor sugar in a bowl for sprinkling over the fruit.

Brush the fruit with the egg white with a pastry brush and then sprinkle the sugar over the fruit, shaking off the excess. Place on a tray which has been covered with waxed paper to let dry. Drying time will depend on the humidity.

*These will keep for a few hours-after icing so they must be put on the cake right before the reception starts.

Chocolate Cake Decorating Ideas

• Chocoloate cutouts
• Chocolate lattice
• Chocolate ganache

Book recommendation: Essential Guide To Cake Decorating

Advanced Cake Decorating Techniques

• Buttercream roses and flowers made with buttercream.
• Royal icing lace and extension work.

Small pieces of lace, piped onto waxed or parchment paper, as run outs, attached to the cake when dried.

Consider colored dusting powder for the lace.

Sugar flowers range from simple filler flowers made with cutters, to fabulous roses, poppies, and sweet peas.

* You will need good petal cutters, a kit of tools and a variety of petal dust. these can be purchased at your local craft store or online.

Modelling paste can be used for just about anything you can imagine. From making miniature figures to acessories such as fruit, bows and hats.

The only limit is your imagination.

How about... Snow, sand, bricks, cobbles, earth, floorboards, marble, bark, rocks, roof tiles, windows etc...anything and everything.

Some of these ideas could be appropriate for a grooms cake.

A Few Tips

• The firmer your cake the better when it comes to wedding cakes.
• If you are having an indoor wedding with air conditioned rooms than you can get away with a softer cake and a variety of frostings.
• If you are having an outdoor summer wedding keep the cake out of direct sun.

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