It's 3 o'clock slump time, so we thought we'd pick you up with a sugar-sweet big fat slice of Wedding Cake...Forget the smooth iced perfection of fondant covered cakes, admit it, you want a slab of sponge smothered in butter icing!
It must be a recessiony, back to basics, home-baking and comfort food thing but soft-iced wedding cakes with lashings of buttery, sugary yumminess have been popping up at weddings all over the place. If you're not convinced, take a look at these beautiful butter-iced goodies and tell me your tummy isn't rumbling by the end...
A little bit natural - The Savannah Wedding Planner (including instructions on making this cool rustic cake stand) & the Ultimate Cake Blog has to be Sweet & Saucy - you will be blown away by the amazing creations. Anything you imagine a wedding cake could be - 1000 times better.
The great thing about soft butter icing is how you can play with texture on the cake. The perfection is in the imperfection - the ideal choice for a DIY bride or a wedding cake baked by family or friend. These simple white cakes come to life with the addition of flowers (real or fake) as decoration.
The Wedding Channel, Anemone Cake from ASimpleCake.com via Elizabeth Anne Designs, The Knot ;Call Me Cupcake
If you have a colour scheme you don't have to keep it completely plain add a little colouring to match your colour palette and get creative with the icing knife and piping bag.
Pink ruffle cakes (another amazing trend) from Sweetapolita, sponge from the Queen Bee baking website Bakerella. While the raspberry-tinted cake that looks like it could walk into my tummy is from Urban Comfort. Piped pink perfection is from IamBaker on Flickr.
Chocoholics Anonymous Wedding
Chocolate swirl spotted on Sparkle & Hay, Golden glamour (you know you love it!) on StyleMePretty. Dark delight and milk chocolate heaven cake from Pinterest
Go Faster Stripes?
For those who are more adventurous how about stripey fun? A great surprise is a plain white butter-iced cake cut open to reveal stripey layers! All you need is a little food colouring in your sponges - these cakes from Cookies & Cake and WeHeartIt show how it's done. Or if you're a baking bombshell, then try your hand at creating an ombre cake like this one from the Knot - we did an ombre wedding inspiration post recently with loads more fab examples.
