If you are looking for some beach wedding cake design ideas to help you decide what type of beach wedding cake you would like for your wedding, or if you are planning a beach theme wedding and you’re on a budget, here are some great cake design ideas.
If you are making your own beach theme wedding cake, enlisting your family and friends for a little help can ease any stress you may have when you are baking and creating your beach theme wedding cake. Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life and making your own beach theme wedding cake will give your wedding that extra special touch and your family and friends will be impressed that you are putting your own efforts into making your very own wedding cake for your special day.
Next, you will have to decide on a cake recipe. The Wilton website has some wonderful cake recipes from the classic white cake to a spumoni layer cake. You may also choose to make a fondant cake. The Martha Stewart website is the perfect place to learn how to make a fondant cake. Whatever cake your decide to bake, your should always have a test run to make sure you like the flavor of your cake as well as the baking of the cake. Once you know the exact type of pan and wedding cake you would like to make, you can now move on to the beach design you and your spouse would like to have for your beach theme wedding cake. Here are some beach wedding cake designs ideas for you to make your own special beach wedding cake as well as some ideas to give to your local bakery.
Seashells and pearls will make your beach wedding cake look like it just came ashore from the ocean. Seashell Cakes and Candies is the perfect place to find sugar seashells that can be placed on your seashell beach wedding cake. These sugar products are a great variety of seashells including beachcomber, Caribbean Peach, Key West, Monterey Bay, Blue Lagoon, Orchid Island, as well as some custom colors for an additional cost. Another great place to buy seashells for your cake is at Cakes by Sam. They sell white edible seashells made fresh from vanilla fondant. Since these edible seashells are white, you can purchase an edible sea shell dust set from Cakes by Sam which is the perfect colored theme set for shells to make your seashell beach wedding cake unique to your taste. They have six colors that include oyster, super pearl, old gold, Georgia peach, and light green. These are the peferct color to dust your shells with to add a little special touch to your beach wedding cake. You can also purchase edible pearls, gumpaste pearls, and fondant pearls to add to your wedding cake. You can also add sheer ribbon to your seashell beach wedding cake for some elegance.
A tropical Hawaiian theme is another idea for your beach wedding cake. Edible tropical flowers will add the perfect touch for your tropical Hawaiian beach wedding cake. The Pfeil & Holing website has a beautiful Hawaiian bloomed plumeria edible topper to add to the top of your cake as well as pink Hawaiian bloomed plumeria singles. These edible flowers from Pfeil & Holing have wire so you can easily insert them in your wedding cake. This would be perfect for a fondant wedding cake. You can also add some edible seashells for a little extra touch.
If you love starfish, the Beach Theme Wedding website is the perfect place to find sugar starfish. They have many different sizes and look very real. They come in sizes of extra small, small, medium, and large. These would be perfect to add to your beach wedding cake along with some seashells, pearls, and ribbon flowing down the cake.
A lighthouse is another idea for a beach wedding cake. Your local wedding bakery can help you build the perfect lighthouse wedding cake. The Knot for Life website has a beautiful photo of Seashells and Lighthouse which is a 3 tier wedding cake. This cake has an edible lighthouse on top with pretty shells, plants, anchor & rope. This can help give you some ideas on how to make your perfect lighthouse beach wedding cake.
