Wedding Cakes

Summer Wedding Cakes

If you dream about a summer wedding, then you also dream about a summer wedding dress, a summer wedding cake, a summer location, etc. A summer wedding cake is fresh and usually reflects the season.

It’s garnished with fresh fruits and flowers and if there is a cascade of flowers flowing down your wedding cake, well, you are the happy owner of a very popular summer wedding cake. Summer nuptials are very special, fresh air, wind blowing through your hair, natural surroundings and happy married people. Usually the design of the summer wedding cake takes the form of the theme of the wedding. If it’s a garden theme, then the on the wedding cake you can find a lot of flowers and fruits, if it’s a beach wedding the wedding cake will be with seashells, sandcastles, dolphins, sea stars, etc. Other popular garnishes for summer wedding cakes are bumble bees, ladybugs and of course butterflies.

Other interesting design for summer wedding cakes is basketwave cakes. These kinds of cakes can be more intense when talking money.  If you want a cheaper offer you can buy colored summer wedding cakes. Colors and summer go perfectly together. Pastel colors and rainbow themes will surely make your summer wedding cake to stand out. You have a lot of options, if you love nature you can use natural adds to yhe summer cake, if you love the sea you can bring a little bit of the sea life on your wedding cake, if you love colors, no problem, your cake can be as colored as you wish.

Talking about the flavors, even if white cream and chocolate cakes are so popular, for a summer wedding cake the happy couple usually chooses, fruit flavors. It’s perfect for the summer time. All the fruits in the world can be delicious and also light cake flavors.

When you’re done choosing flavors, you have to think about fillings. The tradition vanilla or chocolate fillings can work too but for a summer cake a creamy mint filling would be the best. Having a summer wedding and a summer wedding cake has also some negative parts. One of them is the fact that the sun can attack your beautiful cake. This is solvable, because now frosting is your best choice. If you have the reception indoor and there is an air conditioner around it should be fine, but if the reception is outdoor then the heat will surely destroy the wedding cake.  The best choice for withstanding heat is fondant. If possible you should keep your summer cake inside until you plan to serve them but if it has to be outside, built a nice tent or shady tree, so it will protect it from the heat.

Even if everybody dreams an amazing cake at their wedding, normal, simple deserts like ice-cream or baked cookies are also popular nowadays. It’s cheaper and it allows you to show your baking skills at the reception. When choosing summer wedding cakes you can find a whole world of options out there. From traditional to modern, from white, simple cakes to colored, happy ones, it’s your decision to make in order to have a great wedding reception.