We are having a chocolate cake made for us by a girl at work for our wedding. She's a baker, not a decorator, so she's in a pinch. Its to be chocolate and more chocolate, with chocolate ganache layers inside and chocolate frosting outside. (You'd expect it to be insanely sweet, but its not.) Anyways, its a holiday themed wedding, working with Apple Red, white, and Hunter Green. We are using pinecones to tie in the brown of the cake, perhaps with "snow" tips. Its a three layer. How would you suggest I have her decorate it? We aren't coming up with any good ideas.
2006-11-06 09:59:19 · 14 answers · asked by felixandme 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
The cake topper is an engraved acyrlic square (one of those ones that look engraved inside) with our names and the date.
mschristine-i love your ideas!
2006-11-06 10:40:50 · update #1
I'd go with a very basic white chocolate frosting and have a ring of mistletoe or pointsettias around the base of the cake. Or evergreen boughs with pinecones around the base and mistletoe as part of the decoration on each layer. Perhaps she could make pointsettias out of red-dyed frosting, which would be very striking. Congratulations and best wishes!
2006-11-06 10:05:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The chocolate-chocolate cake sounds delicious! Strawberries go with chocolate really well, it's romantic, and tey're festive red!
Take off the stems, cut them in half and let them drain a little, cut-side down, on papertowel (I don't know how long, at least 30 minutes, I'd guess).
Arrange them on the top layer of your cake, on the edge with the pointed ends pointing toward the center, where your topper is.
Red raspberries could be used also. Maybe some of the berries could be sugared, or dusted with powdered sugar. There's a link below on how to sugar fruit. They mention grapes, there's another option that can add some more red and/or green.
I think mint leaves would be pretty arranged around some of the fruit -- I'm thinking any combination of the above may look like a wreath, pretty!
Congratulations! May your wedding be magical!
2006-11-06 20:16:35 · answer #2 · answered by ihavethat45 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since it's holiday themed why not go with the red and decorate the cake with Pointsettias. They are such a beautiful flower, and not used very often for wedding cakes, so that would definetly make it one of a kind. You're going with so not so usual colors and accessories so they might be perfect cascading down the cake. Some say they are poisenous, but it's been proven time and time again that they aren't. You should be able to find them at great prices since they will be everywhere around that time of year.
GOOD LUCK!!!
2006-11-06 18:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would just have the chocolate frosting...make sure it is smooth and flat and consistent throughout. Then add some flowers to it! That is all you will need! It will look very clean and modern. They do make snowflake sprinkles, so you could put a few of those on if you would like. But I think a plain choco cake with flowers will be simple yet elegant...
2006-11-06 18:08:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cake sounds delicious but hard to decorate. In my opinion, I would keep the icing white and decorate with red, white and green. That will be easier. Below are a few pictures that you can get ideas from. Picture the white cake as the chocolate one with the decoration
http://www.chocolateweddingcakes.com/images/chocolate/61_new2.jpg
http://www.chocolateweddingcakes.com/images/traditional/83a.jpg
2006-11-07 08:41:05 · answer #5 · answered by Shay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since it's a winter cake, how about having poinsettia's sloping down the cake - or several of them gathered for the cake topper. The red against the brown would be gorgeous.
2006-11-06 22:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by Rachel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy little Christmas tree candles. They're BEAUTIFUL and candles go very well on a cake whether you light them or not ( I suggest not lighting them). Also surround the cake with those frosted white globe (round) string lights. An angel can top your cake. There are some spectacular ones and that can always op your Christmas trees together from this year on.
How ROMANTIC!!
2006-11-06 18:11:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Decorating a wedding cake is hard. I suggest having her keep it as plain and simple as possible, and let the surrounding pine cones and the cake topper be the focal point.
2006-11-06 21:05:56 · answer #8 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
set flowers in your wedding colors around the layers, or to be different, how about christmas ornaments placed at differnent places on the cake accented wiht a little christmas greenery? You could do the ornaments in your colors, and I think it would be so cool and easy to do! Just be sure not to get glittery ones-you don't want them to shed onthe cake!
2006-11-07 10:37:33 · answer #9 · answered by ASH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you want something elaborate stick to the pine cones. It will be simple and easy. Also try a pretty cake topper.
2006-11-06 18:05:34 · answer #10 · answered by spacedchic00 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋