Trends: Designing your Cake

There are a million and one ways to design a cake, and we can do just about all of them at Cake Affairs & Culinary Creations. here’s no reason you can’t have what you want! From lace to stamps, brides and grooms take culinary inspiration from what surrounds them.

Some unique ways to personalizing your wedding cake might be staring you right in the face. Does your wedding gown feature panels of intricate lace, or perhaps a cluster of gorgeous fabric flowers? You can transfer these beautiful details onto your cake, with replicated fabric patterns or shapes.

If you’re an avid scrap-booker, or maybe you just have a thing for rubber stamps, all is not lost. Incorporate your favorite stamp, shape or motif onto your cake in a cinch. Rubber stamps can be replicated into an edible dye that can be printed onto the fondant. Now your favorite designs can be happily seen on your wedding cake, even from afar.

Whether it’s two tiers or seven, flowers will always work. Plus, they’ll never go out of style. Choose from the same blooms found in your bouquet, or simply go with the same color palette. They can be perched around the edges of your second or third tier in large clusters or cascade from the top to the bottom in a chic, wraparound effect. Other trendy touch-ups include crystals brooches, white on white shapes or layers, colored icing and sugar appliqués. You take the cake!