Wedding Cakes

Wedding Cakes With Bows

Wedding cakes with bows are becoming more and more popular and desirable by the couples that want to create an elegant, sophisticated or a general sweet and lovely impression among their families, friends and guests. A bow wedding cake wrapping has magnificent effects on a wedding party, if it is done properly.




A wedding cake can look even more delicious, smooth, appetizing, winning, lovable, melodious, flattering and nicer than a regular wedding cake. This amazing bow decoration has improved during the last years, especially thanks to the new ingredients and ways of creating edible bows and ribbons. No other cake topper is more fanciful than a cake wrapped in a lavish bow.

Wedding cakes with bows can do wonders within a wedding party, because of its personified vivid aspect that will enchant ever single guest at the table. This modern and sweet decorative design of a wedding cake it usually implies a lot of flat ribbons to wind up the base of each layer of the cake. These wrappings can be made out of edible fondant ribbons, or you can choose real ribbons to complete safely the whole wrapping process. The ribbon’s fabric is usually made from satin, silk or lace.

If we inspired you to have a wedding cakes with bows and ribbons than we can show you a few steps to follow in creating this type of cake decoration by yourself, at home! Firstly you need to go to the floral shop in your street and buy some double-sided ribbon, made from satin. You must be careful to buy a ribbon that matches the colors from your wedding theme: flowers arrangements, bridesmaid dresses or table settings.

Or you can pick a contrasting color, a complementary one or you can pick any color you think it might look best with your general wedding decoration. Once you got the double-sided colored ribbon, you have to iron it just to make sure that it won’t have an erect look or a curly aspect on the cake. Before you attach it to your wedding cake, make sure that the ribbon is really flat and stretched.

Next step is applying a wax paper or tape on the back of the ribbon, to avoid any greasy touch with the frosting of the cake. fter you are definitely sure that the ribbon is ready to be applied to the cake, you can start the wrapping process from the base of the cake. Wrap it slowly, with extreme care, and only few inches at a time, because you don’t want to mess the whole cake design in a single touch. As you wrap the ribbon make sure that you stick it well to the cake, smooth and steady.

To fix the ribbon use butter-cream icing, it has the same effects as real super-glue. You can wrap your whole wedding cake with ribbons, or just a layer. This is not a very difficult operation to do in your home, if you pay attention and move carefully around the cake. This process will save you real good money, and your wedding cake will finally look more colorful, elegant, feminine and chic.