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Hot Ideas for Wedding Cakes in 2010

Tall Wedding Cakes
2010 brings with itself the trend of towering wedding cakes. While last year the cakes for wedding usually consisted of maximum one to three layers, this year it has increased to five to seven tiers. If your budget doesn’t allow you a treat of seven layers, you could go for fake layers.

Fondant Over Butter Cream Cakes

Whether you want to go for fondant cakes or butter cream cakes depends on your preference and budget. However, many of 2010 bride and grooms are opting for butter creams, mainly because it is cost effective. In addition, butter cream is preferred by many, because it is tastier. Fondant was mainly used in the cake frostings as it can give the cake a very beautiful look as opposed to butter cream, which tends to melt fast and doesn’t give the desired smoothness to the cake.

“TipsyCake’s fondant, which is imported from Switzerland, has a neutral flavor, as opposed to the sickly-sweet traditional variation,” said Naomi Levine, Chef/Owner of TipsyCake Chicago. “It also provides a superbly smooth finish, which has become quite popular.”

Note: Poured fondant is a cream confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. In its simplest form, it is sugar and water cooked to the soft-ball stage, cooled slightly, and stirred or beaten until it is an opaque mass of creamy consistency. Sometimes lemon is added to the mixture, mainly for taste. Other flavourings are used as well, as are various colourings. The main filling of a Cadbury’s Creme Egg is poured fondant. Source: Wikipedia

Dramatic Color
As seen on the runways, the trend of dramatic colors can be seen in the wedding cakes too. The colors, which were considered a little too theatrical for the cakes until, last year, are now considered in vogue. You will get to see a lot of green, blues, and even orange colored wedding cakes in 2010. However, the customary white and the jewel themed black and white cake will also be in vogue this year.

Sophisticated Monograms
Monograms always give a stylish and a signatory style to the wedding. 2010 brings the trend of monogrammed wedding cakes. It not only gives your wedding a classic look but also ups your own signatory style. Read our post on cake toppers

Match It With Bridesmaid’s Dress
While the last year was all about matching the wedding cake color to the bride’s gown, this year it is all about matching the cake with the bridesmaid and even brides groom dresses.

Fresh Fruit Topped Cakes
This year you may find loads of wedding cakes filled with fresh fruits pieces. Strawberries, black berries, peaches, mangoes and other fruits would be used to embellish the wedding cake.

Fondant Ruffles
Ruffles were all over the runways this year and the trend of cute ruffles could be seen in the wedding cakes too. If you are a 2010 bride and are opting for a ruffled bridal dress, you could go for five or seven tiered cakes adorned with ruffles, laces, and rosettes.

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5 Comments on “Hot Ideas for Wedding Cakes in 2010”

• Janine February 28th, 2010 4:04 pm

  Yes, it does save money-I know for we have done one before.

• Janine January 5th, 2010 7:45 pm

  How would having fake layers help with the budget? Doesn’t the bakery still have to decorate it to match the other tiers? I always understood that the main cost of the cake wasn’t the actual cake, but the decorators time. Does this really save money?

• Robin December 11th, 2009 2:59 pm

  Love the Glitter Topper! My friend is doing her wedding with a tall cake, and she is also doing fake layers, a way to save money, and just serve the cake in slices to each guest.

• Kay December 9th, 2009 6:56 pm

  Sorry Allison, we were busy all last week, updating our site, and we had to take some time off, to work under the hood of SW site, so all can continue to enjoy what all we do, and our wonderful partners.
  SW team!

• Allison December 9th, 2009 6:52 pm

  Gee, I come to your site all the time, looking for new wonderful ideas and had not had my fix this week-and as I search the internet, I always pop back on to Strictly Weddings, and thanks for posting a new Blog, for I was ready for what you all had to say, that was new and trendy! Ahh, now I feel better! I am getting married in 2011, and still making decisions, seems like 2011 is far away, but it really is not!

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