How to Design Small Wedding Cakes
The wedding cake is an essential part of the entire wedding ceremony. Many newlyweds prefer a big, many-tiered cake to take center stage during their ceremony. However, small wedding cakes for intimate ceremonies can be just as beautiful and memorable as large wedding cakes. Instead of relying on sheer size to awe your guests, you can make your small wedding cake design quirky, colorful or very ornate to draw attention to it. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Sketchpad
- Metallic or glitter pens
- Colored pencils
- Watercolors or crayons
Instructions
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Choose a standard shape for your small wedding cake design. Round, square, rectangular and triangular are some of the more popular choices. However, you can be as creative as you want. With a small wedding cake, you can get away with a quirkier shape. Consider designing a heart-shaped or flower-shaped wedding cake. Sketch the preliminary shape onto your sketchpad.
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Choose a small number of tiers. One to three tiers are enough for a small wedding cake. Putting more than three will make your wedding cake anything but small. Draw the tiers onto your sketch.
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Design the type of icing. Arabesque and floral icing styles are very popular. Swirls, loops and spirals are also beautiful icing designs for a wedding cake. Use a metallic or glitter pen to portray the icing on your sketch of the small wedding cake.
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Embellish your design with candied pearls, cascading flowers, sculptural attachments or figurines to make the cake stand out. A small wedding cake will need some embellishments to make it eye-catching and memorable. Use colored pencils or glitter pens to depict the embellishments.
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Add color to the small wedding cake with dyed frosting. Pastel colors like light pink, baby blue and mint green are popular choices for a wedding cake. Color is another great way to add style to a smaller cake. Use colored pencils, watercolors or crayons to color in your sketch.
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Tips & Warnings
If you plan on baking and decorating your cake design, leave handwritten notes in the margins of your sketch to remember details such as the type of icing, cake flavor, edible embellishments, etc.
