Fall & Autumn Wedding Cakes
Wedding Cake Designs with Crisp, Vibrant Colors and Rich Flavors
Sep 22, 2009
A fall wedding draws on the beauty of this colorful transitional season, and is the perfect opportunity to serve a wedding cake with unique flair. Autumn cakes can pay tribute to the turning leaves and crisp weather with personality, color, and unique touches in the wedding cake decorations.
Add Autumn Decorations, Colors and Flavor
Fall is the time of year for color, so wedding cakes served at weddings in September, October and November can draw on the vibrant colors of the season. While a pure white cake is traditional in many families, fall confections may also be iced in ivory, cream or even butter yellow fondant. More striking fall colors include combinations with red, teal, hunter green, brown, or vivid orange.
Popular autumn wedding cake decorations include all the trappings of the season: details like colorful leaves, marzipan pumpkins, sugar pine cones and acorns. Berries and nuts are traditional foods for the fall, so a cranberry or raspberry icing or a rich hazelnut cake would not be out of place at a fall wedding. Other rich, cold-weather favorite flavors like buttercream, maple, and chocolate are also a good fit for fall wedding themes.
Fall Wedding Cake Themes
Some of the most popular fall wedding cake ideas include:
- Autumn Leaves: This classic but still breathtaking design features autumn leaves in shades of red, orange, gold, sometimes embellished with branches in dark chocolate. The leaves look best when set on a background of velvety white chocolate or buttercream icing. Different leaves will give a different effect – consider oak, maple, and other distinctive leaf shapes.
- Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns: Pumpkins are a perennial favorite for fall weddings, and can be made of plastic (cake toppers), marzipan, sugar confections, or orange icing. Whether they're jack-o-lanterns or part of a traditional harvest themed cake, pumpkins add seasonal color and spice to any fall wedding cake.
- Harvest Fruits: No harvest themed wedding is complete without a harvest cake, topped with pumpkins, squashes, gourds, apples, acorns, nuts, berries, and all the fruits and vegetables of the season. These can be made of sugar, icing, marzipan, chocolate, or can be specially designed plastic cake toppers.
- White Chocolate: Chocolate wedding cakes are perfectly respectable in fall, but white chocolate is better. Or try a traditional chocolate cake with white chocolate icing and delicate pale yellow decorations for a truly exquisite autumn confection.
- Stark, Elegant Color Combinations: One of the most unique trends in fall cakes is towards simple, elegant combinations of color – such as black and white cakes (either iced in different layers or in a checkerboard pattern) accented with red ribbon. Other effective accent colors include orange, gold, yellow or even hot pink. These cakes are at once striking and elegant.
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