Make Your Own Virtual Wedding Cake
A wedding cake should make a statement about the bride and groom's unique personalities and styles. It can be a beneficial exercise to explore wedding cake design options in the virtual realm, allowing you change colors, size and details with the click of a mouse. Many websites also offer tips and models to inspire you as you make a virtual wedding cake.
Instructions
1. Get inspired. Look in bakery shop windows or browse through the photograph albums that wedding cake designers keep on hand for interested customers. Bridal magazines are another source of images and articles about the latest in cake design. If you want to keep the experience virtual for the time being, check out the photographs of cakes on an online gallery, such as one on the sites in the Resources section.
2. Consider your options. Virtual wedding cake design has come a long way since the triple-tiered white-on-white. Recent trends include metallic accents, pyramids of gourmet cupcakes, white with graphic black details, calligraphy motifs, non-circular layers, bright contrasts (such as turquoise and poppy orange) and embedded jewels.
3. Remember chocolate. Many wedding guests will appreciate this favorite cake flavor standby. Chocolate need not look as boring as the Betty Crocker mix box. You can virtually design a chocolate cake that sports Polynesian blossoms or a rainbow of petals. Some people are even hiding a surprise layer of ice cream to complement the chocolate wedding cake.
4. Use an online planning tool. "Brides" magazine has a virtual wedding cake creator. Find a link in the Resources section. Users select colors, decorations and accents and watch the results develop before their eyes. Among the special details the template allows are sugar crystals, ribbons of frosting, abstract stripes and basket weave with pearls. Users can finish off the cake with wildflowers, leaves, roses, butterflies or shells.
5. Top off the cake with a traditional bride and groom figure, or try something different. You can monogram the cake with an initial or create a centerpiece with a crown, bow, bouquet, birdcage or tropical flower blossoms.
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