Fall Wedding Cakes

If you decided to have a fall wedding, you did a great thing. Fall one of the best seasons for weddings. You can feel the change in the air. A fall wedding asks for a fall wedding cake.  If you don't have ideas for your fall wedding cake, this is not a problem, go for a walk and you might come home more creative than ever. Why is that? Because fall is full of colors and shapes and this is everything you need at your wedding. Bring the nature there and use the ideas it gives you.

The best source of inspiration for a fall wedding cake is the many colors of the flowers and leaves. Check the turns of the colors on the leaves and the flowers and you might even decide to have your fall wedding cake frosted in autumn colors. If you think it will be too weird the best thing you can do is choosing a white or off white wedding cake decorated with seasonal colors. Take into consideration these colors:

Bronze
Deep pink
Yellow
Burnt orange
Red



These colors don't have to be reflected just in the icing decorations but also in the flower ones.  Use fall wedding flowers for your fall wedding. Flowers like: sunflower or amaryllis can be use as a cake topper but also in the design. You can also use leaves' shapes for the fall wedding cake's design. The leaves can be created in fondant and they will be added all around the wedding cake.  If you like leaves you can also use them as decorations for the fall wedding cake's table. Scatter them around and they will look natural and purely beautiful.

Think about the season when you do your fall wedding decorations.  Because usually the fall season is also the harvesting one incorporate this into your wedding theme. Incorporate everything that can be used, don't be afraid to try and to create, this is why we have our imagination. Use the wheat grass for wedding decoration and for the fall wedding cake's topper. Arrange basket with fruits, use marzipan and sugar apples, this can be the best fruits cascade falling over the fall wedding cake.


When deciding you will go for a fall wedding cake you need to know something about fall wedding cake's accessories.  While you wish your wedding to look as traditional as it gets, you can do this by using fall accents. You should take into consideration the fallowing ideas:

Use silk leaves in season colors all around your fall wedding cake or scattered on the actual cake. It will bring the autumn in the room for sure.
Arrange ornamental, small pumpkins and squash. Add clusters of strawberries and blueberries, scattered macadamia nuts and orange slices. This will transform the whole table in something truly unique table.
But the same small ornamental pumpkins and squashes around the tables and in the corners of the room.

If you're thinking to go for a fall wedding cake let's spice things a little bit more. What do your say? You can do it how you like and if you are a fan of tradition you should keep the cake topper white. A spiced cake is a unique alternative and you should think about it. Here is the recipe:

You need the fallowing aliments: 3 eggs, I cup of molasses, 2 cups all purpose flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of boiling water, 2 teaspoons of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon ground ginger, ½ teaspoon allspice , sifted confectioners' sugar.

You need a bowl, in which you have to mix together the cream butter with the sugar. Mix it with the electric mixer. The next step is adding the eggs, one at the time. Bet them well together. Now it's time for the molasses. Bring a separate bowl and combine the salt, flour, ginger and the cinnamon.  Add the flower and the spice mixture slowly to creamed mixture, low speed and beating while you're doing that. Combine the baking soda with water and add it to the cake batter. Put batter into a pan that has the oil in it before and bake all the mixture at 350C for 45 minutes. Cool the pan and cut the containing into square pieces. If you want you can add some colored sugar or frost. This is a great recipe for a fall wedding cake.






If this is not for you and especially if you like chocolate here is another fall wedding cake recipe. You need: 3 cups of white sugar, 6 eggs, 3 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon, 3 pinches of ground cloves, 1-1/2 cups of sour milk, 3 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate.  When you have all these aliments and spices you need to do the followings: in a large bowl you need to cream together the margarine or butter and the sugar.

The next step involves adding the eggs. Add them step by step and beat all the mixture very well. In another bowl mix together the spices and the flour.  Put all the ingredients together afterwords.  Dissolve the soda in a cup with the sour milk and add the rest of the batter. Add the batter and grate the chocolate. Pour batter into greased pans and bake everything at 350 grades C for 35 minutes.



These were two examples of fall wedding cake you can bake at your wedding. If you don't want to have a very fancy wedding cake, don't worry that's very simple and if you want to have that fancy fall wedding cake, it's very possible too. The only difference is that it will cost much more. But if you want to go for something not very traditional here are some ideas: bake pumpkin, pecan or an apple pie. Even though there can be guests who can say that this represents poor taste it actually represents the fall season and nothing else. All these ideas can be considered as fall wedding cakes if you want to. It's your wedding so bring the fall and its colors into it.