Modern Wedding Cakes

Posted in: cake design | February 25th 2010 | no comments

A modern wedding cake can still be an expression of your own personality and tastes, even if most of these cakes far exceeded the imagination of classical cake boundary. No doubt that modernism brings out the art in every single detail, and these cakes designed in a modern manner turn up to be as grandiose as our century.



Chocolate, ice flowers, gum paste or animated figures are only a few pictures of modern wedding cakes. The level of inspiration is very high, meaning that almost anything can be transformed into a modern cake. Contemporary era provides a lot of ideas. At a point, some cakes imitate the reality in such a perfect way that you can’t even tell the difference. The unusual part of designing a modern wedding cake is that creators let themselves inspired by movies, comedies, art gallery, history, museums pieces, cartoons, almost anything you can point a finger on it.

The color element is constantly changing in modernism, that’s why pictures of modern wedding cakes show us a wide range of pastels, one more brightly that other. Strong colors, with impact, are especially used by designers in cake industry. The theme can incorporate any figure you wish to create on your wedding cake. Ribbons are used in very large dimensions, and the new trick is to match the color of your bridesmaid dress with the cake ribbons. The aspect is entirely bold, untraditional and outstanding. Fashion is applied with by the rule and line when creating a modern cake for your wedding.

As for the shape and heights, everything is complex, tall and extensive. Geometric shapes are very trendy: anything from triangle, squares, semicircle to hexagonal is extremely fashionable. The modern wedding cake has its own architecture, no doubt about it. Adding more layer is definitely a feature of modernism in cake industry. Each of the layers can enjoy another kind of illustration, decoration, color or flavor. The warm colors are now replaced with metallic tones of bright orange, red, yellow or pink. Everything is chic and well made.

Decorative elements are mostly flowers and they bloom like never. The fruitcake we once knew is bursting with all kinds of flavors: peachy, carrot, lemon, banana, pineapple or coconut. But chocolate remains the best flavor one can desire. Whether is white, dark, blue, truffle or mud chocolate, the cake would only leave your mouth dry. There are some amazing shapes that can be done sculpting in chocolate.

The more little the more adorable are the wedding cakes. Designing a small cake means more attentions to details and more creative patters. Maybe it’s only a preconception, but they say that miniature cakes are even sweeter than the big ones. Covered with sweetmeats, chocolate, ice glaze, sweet glassware, these cakes are the best.