Monday, October 22, 2012

Autumn Wedding Cakes w/ Flowers

Flowers that are on the warm side of the color spectrum can be a lovely way to enhance your wedding cake during the fall season. These wedding cakes that do just that.


Ivory and Orange Wedding Cake w/ Scroll Pattern

 Cake by: Graceful Cake Creations (Mesa, AZ USA)


Autumnal Gerbera and Rose Wedding Cake

  Cake by: Graceful Cake Creations (Mesa, AZ USA)


Cascade of Rose Petals

  Cake by: Sherene Venter (Pretoria, South Africa)


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Nightmare Before Christmas Wedding Cakes!

Tim Burton styled wedding cakes have become more and more popular among gothic brides. Some of them make very unique cakes. Here are some examples:

 Photographer & Baker: Karen Hedge (Tennessee USA)
Something about black icing always turned me off. I guess it's the idea of trying to eat it and get it all over your gums so that you look scary for the rest of the night. But 'tis something we will have to accept for the these types of cakes.

Anyways, I love the topper:

 Photographer & Baker: Karen Hedge (Tennessee USA) 
The stitches on the dress and the tiny flowers are especially detailed.


Here is another Nightmare wedding cake:
Photographer & Baker: Graceful Cake Creations (flickr)
In this wedding cake, the cake toppers kind of looks like the Play-Doh version of Jack Skellington and Sally. But it's cute nonetheless and the cake itself is especially adorable.


For this next cake I cheated a little...

  Photographer & Baker: Angel Cakes (Rutland UK)
...it's not exactly a wedding cake.
It's a birthday cake for a boy that was turning nine years old. 
But that's all a technicality. In reality this design would work wonderfully for a wedding cake and so deserves a spot on the HolidayTrees website.
Plus, look at that Zero! Have you ever seen a better one?

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Grab the Rake! - Fall Foliage Wedding Cakes

I came across lots of leafy wedding cakes during my search for fall wedding cakes.
While many autumnal wedding cakes have a leaf or two, these cakes went all out with their fall foliage. The effect can be rather lovely on some of the more high-end ones.


Here is one of my favorites:

Baker: Amanda Robinson from Sweetfix (Virginia, USA) 
I love the sense of movement on this wedding cake. It looks as though the leaves have been blown around the cake.


Here is another beautiful leafy wedding cake:

 Photographer: Katina Rogers 
Am I the only one that just wants to pluck a leaf off these cakes and eat one? 
They look so crispy and yummy and sugary!


Instead of going the painstaking (and more expensive) route of having handmade leaves on their wedding cake, the owners of this cake opted to use fake leaves and place them around the cake.

 Photographer: Dave Walker (Michigan USA)
Not a bad idea if you're having a wedding in October and need to give off a "crisp fall day" feel in a pinch.


Have a wedding cake you want to share?
Email it to me at HolidayTrees@gmail.com