Wedding Cakes

Autumn theme wedding cakes

An autumn wedding reveals the warm and melancholic personality of the bride and groom. Although is considered to be a sad and cloudy season, autumn offers the most fascinating palette of colors: red, orange, yellow and brown. Autumn theme wedding cakes is one of the most complex because it involves a lot of colors, flavors and some fabulous toppers and cake designs.




Colors for autumn weddings
Everybody knows that autumn means a mixture of a lot of colors most of them being: red, orange, yellow, bronze. Autumn gives us some beautiful cold colors too: purple, teal or green. So you can select and brown chocolate cake or a red fondant one. Don’t be afraid to use cold colors like purple or green. With some simple ornaments will be great.

Autumn wedding cake decorations
Autumn is the season of leaves, fruits and pumpkins. The most popular decorations for autumn wedding cakes are colorful leaves made from gum paste, sugar pine cones, marzipan pumpkins and nuts. Here are some great ideas to decorate your wedding cake:
-  Fruits: as autumn is a season of fruits you may decorate the cake with apples, acorns, grapes, pumpkins, pears made from chocolate, marzipan or sugar. Blueberries and strawberries are also a good idea. The colors create a fancy image.
-  Leaves: from different color to shape leaves are great for the autumn theme wedding cakes. The leaves can be red, orange, brown made from dark chocolate. For a more special effect you can try maple or oak leaves.
-  Pumpkins: fall is strongly represented by the pumpkin. As an autumn wedding theme you can choose pumpkins made from orange icing or marzipan.
- Acorn and pine cones: can be made from dark chocolate and can decorate your cake in a unique way.

Flavors for autumn wedding cakes
First of all chocolate is perfect for autumn and you can use dark or white chocolate or even Belgian chocolate. Other flavors like vanilla, caramel or hazelnut. Marzipan, fondant, butter cream or royal icing can be used. For a unique flavor add orange, coffee or raspberry.

Fall Wedding Flowers
The leaves and the autumn flowers will be a burst of colors. Here are some autumn flowers suitable for your wedding cake: sugar or fondant dahlias on every tier, chocolate roses or marzipan carnations. If you like tiger lilies, freesia or gerbera are other autumn flowers that can decorate your wedding cake.

Autumn wedding cake toppers
As the Halloween is an important fall holiday you have many options for the toppers: marzipan pumpkins, vampire and zombie couples. Also you can use jack-o-lantern or ghosts. If you don’t want to use Halloween toppers you can always go for a bride and groom next to a tree with no leaves or a heart who has in the middle a leave, symbolizing the bond between the couple and the nature.

The wedding cake is the centerpiece of the wedding and autumn offers you special colors that can create a wonderful wedding scene. Use color, use fruits and leaves for decorating. Use funny Halloween toppers and crazy autumn flavors.