Miniature Wedding Cakes

Choosing a miniature wedding cake is a great wedding cake alternative over to the tiered wedding cake or to the sheet wedding cake. It's not the most traditional choice but it's surely pretty.

Wedding cakes have been the attraction of the wedding receptions for years now. Even if they are round, square, tiered or sheet wedding cakes their goal is the same: to add tradition and taste to the whole event. If you still want to respect tradition, but you want as well to be a little different, miniature wedding cakes are the best things for you.  In this way you can be unique but in the same time you're keeping the tradition alive. Miniature wedding cakes are usually made using fondant frosting or buttercream wedding cakes' design. These are the most popular ways of making miniature wedding cakes.

Miniature wedding cakes offer to those who chose them a great deal of options for the couples to select. They usually look more or less as normal size wedding case, just as far as I'm concerned I think they are cutter, because they are so small. The best option for couples is to shape their wedding cakes using the normal size wedding cake as a model. Besides if you are having a small wedding with not so many guests you can opt for miniature wedding cakes and you can also put the initials of every guest on the miniature wedding cake. It will be fun and original.

Here are some ideas of how to decorate your miniature wedding cakes:

-Scroll designs
-Snowflakes
-Bees, ladybugs, butterflies
-Leaves
-Dots and beatwork
-Flowers.
-Monograms
-Ribbons - in order to look like wedding gifts.
-Fruit topper- several blueberries or a single strawberry

It doesn't matter what you chose as long as you chose something that will tie up the whole wedding theme. Keep in mind that all your wedding needs to respect a theme and needs to be in a line so when you're choosing your cake decoration model, think about this.  The type of decoration that you chose for you miniature wedding cakes will also help you decide which type of frosting do you need: buttercream or fondant. If you're planning to send the miniature wedding cakes to those who couldn't make it to the wedding, to send them home as a favor you should know that fondant icing travels better.  However if you are a fan of buttercream you can frost your miniature wedding cakes in buttercream as well, after all cakes are made to be eaten not to travel in the safest way.

You have two options concerning who's making the miniature wedding cakes: either you make them yourself or your baker makes them. If you decide to make them yourself you need to be sure you have what you need. You need a special pan that can help you to make the novelty shapes, shapes like: hearts, roses, castles, etc.

Now let's talk about money. You should know that having miniature wedding cakes at your wedding is not all the times cheaper than having a larger tiered or sheet wedding cake.  There are bakeries that will ask a minimum number of miniature wedding cakes before starting to actually make them. The same bakeries may limit cake frostings, cake fillings and other types of cake decorations. The labor of the numbers of tiers or of the type of design of the miniature wedding cakes will also cost a little bit more. So, before deciding on a type of miniature wedding cake, be sure you know the price and that it's a good choice for your budget.

When having miniature wedding cakes at a wedding, one of the most important thing is the way you're displaying them, the way you're showing them to your guests. You can present your miniature wedding cake in these fallowing ways:

-Plate them individually and be sure they are served by the catering staff.
-As part of the wedding dessert bar.
-Place them around a faux cake, like they are the second part of the decoration even though they are actually the desert.
-Place them on tiered serving plates in the center of the reception.

If you want something different than a tiered wedding cake or a sheet wedding cake for your wedding and if miniature wedding cakes aren't what you were looking for there are other alternatives for you.  Cupcake wedding cakes are new and they look amazing displayed in a nice way.  There are still individual cakes but they require less labor which means less money for you to spend. Another alternative is to use cookies, cut them in the shape of cakes, using the cake cookie cutter and you will get the actual look of a cake without having to make one. For an elegant finish, so they look amazing on the reception's table, frost them with royal icing. If this isn't the option for you either, think about making small one tiered wedding cakes. They are like miniature wedding cakes but maybe a little bit bigger. Design this for each table from the reception, so each table will have its own one tiered wedding cake. It's going to look very nice for sure!

Miniature wedding cakes are a lovely and delicate alternative to larger wedding cakes. Even if the price can sometimes make you to wish for a larger wedding cake, don't forget why you chose miniature wedding cakes. You did it because you wanted something unique and special without spoiling tradition. So, keep this in mind and arrange your miniature wedding cakes in order to have a real and original desert. Don't think too much about what the guests are going to say. If they don't like it then it might be their fault. It's impossible not to like miniature wedding cakes, because they are so pretty. Be sure that your wedding is going to be a subject for a lot of talking for now on.