Fall Wedding Cakes

Summer is traditionally dubbed as the wedding season. Good weather and the abundance of flowers would lend festiveness to a summer garden wedding. However, if you have opted for a fall wedding, you can make this occasion beautifully distinct with a lot of fall wedding ideas. One of the must haves in a wedding is a wedding cake. Below are several ideas you can adapt to make wonderful, one of a kind fall wedding cakes. 

Fall Flavors 

Naturally, you can serve any kind of cake but wouldn’t it be nice to break away from the traditional chiffon cake with white frosting? You can serve a cream cheese frosted pumpkin cake or a blackberry filled spice cake made yummier if you frost it with cream cheese. The lemon frosting on the almond lemon cake will surely remind the guest that they are attending a fall wedding. And once they take a bite of the lemon filling, they would be glad to have braved the foul weather just to attend your wedding.

Seasonal Colors 

The burnt orange, the reds, the yellow and the browns are all colors of the falling leaves…colors that symbolizes fall. Use these colors to design your fall wedding cake. But be sparing in using these colors. You don’t want your cake to be a distasteful kaleidoscope. You can pipe in an orange or a yellow frosting around the ivory colored butter cream cake. Or you can decorate the cake with fall colored gum paste maple leaves. 

Autumn Blooms

Fall means an abundance of dahlias and sunflowers. Use these fall flowers for your bouquet. It is a novel idea to use these flower as the decoration for your cake too. Instead of the traditional roses and orchids, you can ask the baker to decorate your cake with dahlias made of sugar. Skilled bakers can paint the cakes with lifelike flowers using edible dyes. Wouldn’t it be great if miniature flowers like the ones in your bouquet will be painted on your cake?

Shapes and Add-ons 

Gum paste maple leaves, chocolate or sugar acorns when used to decorate a cake will certainly show that the cake is for a fall wedding. But to break away from the predictable colorful symbols of fall, you may want to have a chocolate wedding cake. Use chocolate molded leaves and acorns as cake decorations. This would have a more distinct effect, one that would make your cake stylish. 

Choose Sides 

Your chosen fall wedding cake may reflect the season or you may have chosen a traditional one, but either way you can still choose a side to be served with your cake. A pumpkin ice cream, caramel candies on tiny beautifully crafted wicker baskets or a slice of poached pears on each plate would replicate the season.