Seashell Wedding Cakes

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Seashell wedding cakes are the absolute remarkable handmade pieces of art of some great designers that combine imagination and a perfect location for your wedding day: the beach! Who doesn’t just love the seashell wedding cakes? With an extraordinary effect on the viewer’s eye, these full of uniqueness creations are made to inspire the best in us.

The “materials” used in designing these wedding cakes are pure chocolate, white, black, blue, pink, cream, ivory and mixes of them all. All these cakes are made out manually, because of the delicate state of the chocolate. The colors represent only an accent of distinctive shades that the sea can take. More beautiful than a simple white wedding cake is a blue sea cake theme, which can be embellished with all sorts of seaside elements.

These types of cakes are perfect for a couple who idolize and simply love the sea and all its beauties. For a beach wedding a wedding cake made out of seashells and other specific figures is more than adequate. The Maui Raw Sugar is a tropical beach wedding cake, placed on a bed of ivory sea sand, filled with white chocolate, adorned with white pearls and meerschaum. It’s an incredible model for an elegant summer beach wedding, where everybody can enjoy the spectacular movement of the sea breeze.

The decoration process of a seashell wedding cake is not very simple, as you can see from the pictures, but the result is absolutely stunning. These beautiful theme cakes have become increasingly popular than they were before, mostly because of the novelty in matters of ingredients and amazing seashell colors and toppings. The ornaments are often imported from different countries, especially from the tropical regions, where these tiny seashells benefit of a wider choice of types, colors and shapes.

These tropical cakes are usually made out from fresh flowers, and not from edible seashells, waves or sand. But they are still used for the beach weddings. If you’re feeling a little insecure about the seashell wedding cake theme you can go with this tropical theme, and you won’t fail in any circumstance.

Seashells cakes are usually more casual then funny, and they can be a great choice for a classy, sophisticated wedding on the beach, but not necessarily. If you go with a more colorful seashell cake the impression is as grand as if you choose a light white one. Colors are not a sign of low quality of the cake, but a mark of uniqueness and warmness welcoming. Most of the cakes are made form two tiers, are white and transparent pearly decorated. But the masterpieces on the business are those sandcastle cakes, thin, tall and very full with shells and unique ornaments.