Popular Cake Decorations for Wedding Cakes and Christening Cakes

Special occasions are usually marked with beautiful, elaborate cakes to mark the event. Among these occasions, art cakes are more usually found in weddings and christenings. These cakes act as more than a dessert guests share with their hosts. These cakes symbolize something in the event, which makes it important for these cakes to look amazing. While there are a lot of varieties in terms of flavor and design, there are still some guidelines for designs used in wedding cakes and christening cakes. There are details in these cakes' design that you really have to pay close attention to so they come out perfect.

Wedding cakes are served during a reception of a wedding. They are usually multi-layered cakes with a white coat of icing covering it. The large cake usually has small statues of the bride and groom on top of it. Note that a wedding cake has a lot of layers so it is usually a couple of feet tall. There is a belief that if the bride and groom could kiss on top of the wedding cake, it will bring their marriage luck. While this seems so sweet, there are a lot of considerations before you ask a baker to make you a wedding cake that you can kiss on for luck.

There is no traditional size for a wedding cake since this depends on its design and the number of guests that are attending the wedding. You might have a hard time estimating this so you can always ask your baker for some advice on cake size.

Wedding cakes are either round or square with three to four layers. Contemporary and modern cakes, however, tend to stray from the norms and are designed in a different way. Modern cakes are usually fashioned to look like something that falls within the theme of the wedding. While there is the common white coat, the trappings and complimenting colors have changed over the years. Couples used to prefer soft colors like pink or light blue but stronger hues have started to become popular among today's wedding cakes.

The same goes with christening cakes. Traditional decorations usually invoke a child's toy drawn or stuck on top of a cake. These also have a white coat but their complimenting colors are usually the ones you find in the nursery: light blue, pink, and soft yellow. Some strongly religious families opt to skip the toy and instead, have a cross-drawn on top of the cake.

While some families choose toys like teddy bears as designs to sit on top of the cake, there are also christening cake decorations with a child's initial sitting atop the cake. Other designs include stars, hearts, flowers, and balloons. Twins, of course, have a different kind of cake design. Some parents prefer it that their twins, triplets, or quadruplets share a cake and have different designs on top of the cake to represent each child. However, there are also bakeries that make smaller cakes for each child with the same shape or color theme as the other sibling's. There is really no recommended size for cakes for baptism. All you have to keep in mind is the number of guests you have invited.