Wedding Cakes

Do It Yourself Wedding Cakes

It’s a fact that weddings these days can be really expensive. This is one of the many reasons why more and more modern brides and grooms choose to go with the popular efficient method of making their own weddings cake.




You don’t have to be very skilled to work with a wedding cake but rather to have imagination and a sharp sense of creativity. Anyone can follow the “do it yourself wedding cake” method and obtain a successful and unique wedding desert without too much effort or stress.

This is a great way to save some money for the wedding budget and cut the wedding expenses consistently. If you can’t handle at all a wedding cake, then you can ask your mother, sister, aunt or a neighbor that can work with a wedding cake.

Another super advantage of home made wedding cake is that you can create, assemble, ornate and decorate it just the way you want to. You can use any type of ingredient, flavor, decorative elements, shapes, designs and toppers to beautify your wedding cake, as long as it is eatable or admirable.

So, if you’ve decided to follow the “do it yourself wedding cake” option, the first thing that you have to do is to think of your dream wedding cake and how would you like it to look like: round, squared, heart-shaped, rectangular, triangular, oval or hexagonal? You can choose any shape you want, as long as you can handle it. Choose to mix the shapes to obtain a more unique, fabulous, distinctive and extravagant look. Mix a square, round and heart shape and obtain a superb festive and romantic wrapped gift box wedding cake.

Buy a cake stand that will help you get the shape and the looks you want. The cake stand won’t allow you to make any mistake because in general it is simple and easy to handle. If you’re asking us what type of frosting or icing is more usable and workable for a home made wedding cake, we can answer you with all our heart that the butter cream can help you cover the cake much easier than any other type of frosting, like fondant, royal icing or marzipan.

Besides the fact that the butter cream is more flexible and malleable, it is also more affordable and less expensive than other types of frostings. Not to mention that a butter-cream wedding cake is always more tasty, delicious, appetizing and yummier than a fondant wedding cake for example.

After you obtained a smooth or a fluffy creamy wedding cake finish, you can start the decoration process. Depending on the theme, color-scheme, style, character, location, season and amplitude of the wedding, you can use various decorative items to beautify the cake, such as romantic natural or silk flowers, fresh fruits, branches, leaves or other matching herbs, jewels, crystals, diamonds, pearls and beadings, sequins, lace appliqués, feathers, swags, monograms, seashells, rhinestones, silver or acrylic figurines, gems or any other type of precious stones.