Square Wedding Cakes

Posted in: Design styles, Useful Info, cake design | March 11th 2010 | no comments

When you are planning a traditional wedding everything has to stay within the general theme. Therefore, your wedding cake has to respect the shapes of a traditional popular wedding cake. Square wedding cakes can be found among round wedding cakes and belong to the traditional white or ivory frosted and stacked wedding deserts. These cakes are usually decorated with flowers, silk or real types of flowers or with other different confection-ed figurines or accents.



The differences between a round cake and a square on are that the last can provide more servings and cake plates for the guests. Another advantage of the squared wedding cakes is that they can be beautifully wrapped in colorful ribbons and bows for a final gift picture of the cake. This is the new twist and modern look of the traditional square wedding cakes.

Couples  do not have many opportunities and various options to decide from, because the square wedding cake “gift” designs can involve many themes, ingredients, toppings, colors and flavors. To get the perfect wrapped gift looks you have to select a smoother fondant, for the cake to be easily handled and manipulated. There are lots of original designs of the square wedding cakes for traditional couples to choose from, or, for a personal look they can even make their own wedding cake design.

For a wilder appearance and taste of the wedding cake you can use and combine two different shapes: square and round. Imagine how impressive your wedding cake will look like if you mix two tiers of different shapes into one. Now your wedding cake will look more like a tower of gifts, and imagine that they are perfectly eatable and delicious. You can add other shapes to your square wedding cake such as a hexagonal tier, a triangle or a semicircle tier for a grandiose wedding cake picture to amaze all your guests. you can also alternate your square wedding cake with a heart-shaped tier and create a stunning effect.

Depending on what your wedding theme and expectations are regarding to the cake, you can choose various types of cakes: a multi-tiered square cake with different colors and flavors on each tier, separated with pillars, a square wedding cake separated with spirals or globes, an asymmetrical group of separated mini wedding cakes in different shapes, a tower squared wedding cake with columns to sustain the center of the cake or you can go for an impressive jewel look by using a square wedding cake arranged in different positions and angles for a diamond amazing wedding desert picture.

Moving on to a more modern and trendy vision of the square wedding cake, these days many brides and grooms choose to diversify the menu and the guest’s tastes with different individual cakes forming one large square wedding cake. This is a perfect choice for those who want to replace the big wedding cake with something more unique and colorful. Therefore you can create a dramatic effect using multiple mini wedding cakes made out from different ingredients, flavors and colors.