Fall Wedding Cakes

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Are you dreaming of a breathtaking September or October wedding?

An autumn wedding is crisp and romantic, warm and colorful, and full of sunshine, leaves, and harvest touches!

When it comes time to choose your wedding cake, keep up the fall theme by incorporating scents, sights, and tastes that you and your guests associate with this elegant time of year. Fall is all about new beginnings – and isn’t that what weddings are all about, too?

Sugar & Spice

When the days grow longer and the nights grow colder, we warm ourselves with comfort foods: warm apples, cinnamon, and nutmeg are just a few of the seasonal tastes the autumn graciously offers up. Incorporate these tastes into your wedding day by serving a delightful spice cake, topped with decadent cream cheese icing or rich buttercream frosting. Spicy tastes are perfect for fall weddings because they evoke memories of pumpkin pie, apple cider, and the rich scents of fall. You can incorporate these fall memories into your frosting, your filling, or the cake itself. You can even serve up family favorites like apple or pumpkin pie in place of a traditional wedding cake! Or, mention these dishes to your baker to see what suggestions he or she comes up with: a carrot cake, perhaps? Or a dark chocolate cake with rich apple layers? Be creative, have fun, and enjoy the taste tests!

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Color Me Autumn

The most stunning thing about fall is the brilliant array of colors that burst forth when the days begin to cool off. Gone are the bright summer blossoms: and in their place are rich oranges, deep reds, brilliant yellows and gold, and deep browns, burgundies, and greens. Any combination of these colors will give your wedding day a harvest feel – and add white, cream, or a pale version of your main hue for an elegant and understated look. Incorporating these colors into your wedding cake is simple. Take cues from nature, and don’t be afraid to add a dash of the unexpected, such as a deep pink or a gorgeous bronzy color!

A Visit to the Baker

Visit your baker with your trusty swatches in your hand, and discuss ways that you can incorporate them into your cake. It is a good idea to do a bit of research before your meeting. This way you can bring along some examples of the sorts of cake you love. You might even want to bring a few magazine pages of cakes that you definitely don’t want – just to make sure you are on the same page, so to speak. Your baker can work with your icing to create the colors you want – most frostings are quite easy to color.

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Accents

A cream or white tiered cake with a ribbon of your accent color wrapped around the base of each layer is stunning and elegant. A dark chocolate cake with orange accents is as gorgeous as it is delicious. Your cake decorator can create whimsical leaves in fall colors out of fondant and then place them on your wedding cake. Or, use real flowers as a stunning cake topper: marigolds, sunflowers, and dark roses or orchids are all beautiful selections. Flowers, miniature apples, tiny pumpkins, grapes, and ivy can all be made of sugar – use them to decorate the base of the cake in clusters for harvest effect.

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