Wedding Fountain Cakes

Fountain wedding cakes are elegant and beautiful and they are a great at getting all the attention. Your fountain wedding cake will be the focal point of your reception. Keep reading and you will find out some interesting things about fountain wedding cakes.


There are lots of types of fountain wedding cakes as you can say there are a lot of types of brides.  The cake is designs as any other ones, with the wanted specification, respecting the style, the design and the wedding theme. In this way, each cake gets to be unique. Usually the cakes are designed onto some tiered platforms in order to look like a floating fountain. There's going to be under the cake a 3 tiered fountain. The typical fountain wedding cakes arrangements include:

Spiral cake or stairways arrangement
Stacked cakes on one or more tiers.



Standard vertical tiers.
One main tier with tiers flanking each side.

Beside this alternative there are other ones. There are two that are used instead of the fountain underneath the very first tier of the wedding cake. Another option is to place the fountain on the top of the very first layer of the fountain wedding cake. Usually this tier becomes the base and afterwords additional tiers are arranged above.  Another less popular option is using the fountain instead of the cake's topper. Even if it looks or it doesn't look better, in this case the big concern is if the water gets into the cake or not. It's not sure and not safe.


Nowadays, cake designers came up with ingenious and nice ideas like: using a chocolate fountain wedding cake as the actual cake. Even if it isn't a traditional cake, a chocolate fountain wedding cake with chocolate floating everywhere can be a great and truly spectacular alternative to the traditional wedding cake.  When you order the chocolate fountain wedding cake you need to be decided of what you want. I'm saying this because there are many types of chocolate wedding cakes. Chose the one you want and then call the salesman. Here are your options:


White chocolate
Dark chocolate
Milk-chocolate
Semi-sweet chocolate
Colored chocolate

You should know that the chocolate that is used for fountain chocolate wedding cakes is not actually chocolate. It is a kind of a chocolate fondue that is falling dawn the tiers of the cake. The chocolate cascading down is the one thing that is the most spectacular about fountain wedding cakes. Your wedding cake will be interesting, interactive, beautiful, magical and for sure not an ordinary wedding cake.



If you consider choosing a chocolate fountain wedding cake you should think about the dripping items as well. You don't know what dripping items are? Don't worry I'll explain everything. What's the best thing to have when you have a cake of melted chocolate around? For example fruits, they are perfect to be dipped into the chocolate. It's going to be delicious. Usually when couples chose to have a chocolate fountain wedding cake they also think about the dripping items that should be right next to the wedding cake. Here are the most popular ones:


Dried fruit
Pretzels
Fresh fruit
Toffee
Mint sticks
Marshmallows




Nuts
Donut holes or mini donuts
Pound cookie
Wafer cookies
Biscotti
Mini cookies
Angel food cake
Mini brownies
Peanut brittle
Caramels
Graham crackers

Because the chocolate fountain is usually bigger than the other types if fountains for fountains wedding cakes, there are lots of couples that think is better for them to rent the fountain than to buy it. They think about the fact that the fountain for the fountain wedding cake will probably be used once and then nobody will want it, so they rather rent one because of course it's also cheaper.

The rental is not expensive, as I've mentioned above and you can have the fountain for couples of hors. You pay per hours and they usually rent if for two or three ours. If you need it more than this you will pay some extra fees. There are couples that use to use the famous fountain for both appetizers and desert, or they just want it to have it for their fountain wedding cake. Search a little bit more until you chose you're the company you want to work with.

There are companies that include in the same rental price also: dipping skewer and table presentation. Be sure you chose the best offer for yourself. The cost depends on the size and on the time included. But it usually costs from 200$ to 500$ for all the services. As I've said before, don't forget that not every rental chocolate fountain company has the same offers and the same prices. Here are some tips that you should consider before placing your order:


The quality of the chocolate counts maybe the best. Be sure they offer you a tasty chocolate. I mean, you want a good looking fountain wedding cake but you also want a good tasting one.The experience of the chocolatier is also important as well. If the man knows to do his job, well the result will be amazing, but if it's not as creative and less talented, you might have a problem.

Think about the number of people a fountain package accommodates, of course you want al your attendants to taste the spectacular cake, don't you? Be sure the fountain wedding cake is big enough for all the people at the wedding. The professionalism of the attendants they send you counts also. You need pros in order to have everything organized and in order to have an amazing event.

Have you ever dreamed to have a creative cake topper and now, that you're having a fountain wedding cake you think that is impossible? Well, it's not. Even if you have a fountain wedding cake, you can still have cake toppers. These can include themes, fruits, flowers or any creative idea you have. Chose your favorite cake topper and be proud of your spectacular fountain wedding cake!