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Delicious, Romantic Wedding Cakes on a Budget

You can serve a delicious wedding cake that is cheap and easy on the budget. Beautiful wedding cakes come in many different designs, types, colours and shapes. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed by the variety. The best way to start is by looking at pictures of cakes for your favorites. Then see what your local bakery has to offer.

1. How Much Does a Cheap Wedding Cake Cost
2. Five Ways to Save on a Cheap Wedding Cake
3. Design Your Cheap Wedding Cake
4. Wedding Cake Flavors
5. Wedding Cake Shapes
6. Wedding Cake Icing
7. Cheap Wedding Cake Toppers
8. How to Serve the Cheap Wedding Cake

How Much Does a Cheap Wedding Cake Cost

The price of the wedding cake from a bakery is determined by how many people you want to serve. A simple cake starts at $2 per slice. For an elaborate custom design, the cost can skyrocket to $15 per slice. You'll be glad to know that bakers and designers offer mock-ups of their wedding cake designs with pre-pricing. They offer a cake tasting of samples, so you can decide what you like.

Five Ways to Save on a Cheap Wedding Cake

1. If you decide to use a bakery or a designers, choosing from their portfolio of standard designs is one way to save substantially on your wedding cake.
2. Another way to save with a cheap wedding cake is to use cupcakes. These can be homemade and displayed on a rented stand to show them off at the reception. Cupcake liners come in a rainbow of colors to match your wedding colors. With cupcakes, you can offer several flavors of cake and icings, matched to the color of the cupcake papers.
3. Do you have a baker in the family? Ask him or her to take on the project of your wedding cake, and choose decorations within their range of skills. The ingredients for a white wedding cake are simply cake flour, shortening, sugar, milk and egg whites, along with a dab of baking powder and vanilla flavoring, all relatively cheap items from the grocery store. You may want to buy a set of cake pans to bake the cake layers in graduated sizes. You can buy or rent a cake stand to hold the layers of cake.
4. You can save on a cheap wedding cake by using the bakery at your local grocery store, Walmart, Costco or Meijers. Check out their cakes to see if they pass the taste-test.
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   Square Wedding Cake
   Here is my favorite suggestion for a cheap wedding cake. Order an elaborate cake in a smaller size for display and for the cake-cutting ceremony. Also have look-alike sheet cakes on hand to serve the guests. If the wedding cake is removed to the kitchen where the sheet cake is waiting, none of the guests will be the wiser. With this plan you can have your cake and eat it, too.
6. Try a faux wedding cake. I have known brides who ordered a wedding cake made out of styrofoam and decorated to look like the real thing. One of the layers was edible cake for the cake cutting ceremony. When the faux wedding cake was removed to the kitchen, pre-cut sheet cakes were waiting to be served. The guests had delicious cheap wedding cake and were none the wiser.

Design Your Cheap Wedding Cake

There are no hard and fast rules for your wedding cake design. You and your loved one can design the cake from a myriad of choices.

• pick the flavor of the cake
• its shape
• the number of layers
• the type of icing
• the decorations
• the cake stand
• and the cake topper.

Wedding Cake Flavors

For your wedding cake flavor, a basic white cake, yellow cake or chocolate cake is always in favor for the wedding. But, if you are looking for originality, the cake batter can be swirled with strawberry, fudge or lemon. Liquors can also flavor a basic cake batter. Cheesecake, sponge cake, a sour cream cake and even holiday fruit cake are tasty, too. There are also ethnic traditional wedding cakes from various countries that you might incorporate into your wedding.

Wedding Cake Shapes

The shape of a wedding cake is often round or square, but wedding cakes can be petal shaped, hexagon, heart shaped or oval, depending on the shape of the baking pans.

Wedding Cake Icing

To ice your wedding cake, any standard, rich, creamy cake icing can be used. The icing can be tinted to match your wedding colors or used white. In the hands of the decorator, icing makes sweet decorations like flowers, swags, basket weaving and shells. The most popular icing with brides and designers is the smooth, flawless icing called fondant. It can be rolled out in a sheet, folded, pleated and draped creatively. You should know that fondant is more expensive than simple buttercream icing, but it has a stunning effect. Fondant icing also doesn't taste as good as buttercream icing. White icing on the wedding cake never tastes as good as homemade buttercream icing, because, to get the pure white color, the icing is made with shortening rather than butter.

Cheap Wedding Cake Toppers

But your wedding cake still isn't done yet. The next decision is what topper to use on the wedding cake. The engaged couple also has to select the inedible decorations like fresh flowers, silk ribbons or silver beads. Now the wedding cake needs a topper. The wedding cake topper often suggests the theme of the wedding. You may want the traditional figures of a bride and groom standing on your cake. There are also toppers like wishing wells, swans, figurines, family heirlooms, and wedding bouquets. If you want a amusing topper for the wedding cake, use cartoon characters or movie characters. A Disney theme, a Star Wars theme, a vintage car theme or a sports theme makes your cake very personal. It is always in good taste to top your wedding cake with fresh flowers or silk flowers that match your wedding bouquet.

How to Serve the Cheap Wedding Cake

There are a few more items you need in connection with the wedding cake. A knife to cut the wedding cake and a silver wedding cake server should be on hand at the reception. Many couples engrave the wedding cake server with their names and wedding date. When the bride and groom join hands to cut the wedding cake, it symbolizes the beginning of their shared married life. Then they lovingly feed each other a piece of cake as part of the ritual. The cake server becomes a lasting memento to be used on each wedding anniversary.

Traditionally, guests take a slice of cake home to put under their pillow at bedtime. For this you'll want to have wedding cake boxes available. You'll also need a box to hold the top layer of the wedding cake, which is to be frozen and served at your first anniversary.

I wish you blissful happiness on your wedding day, and a lifetime of romance and shared memories. - Heather, Best Cheap Weddings

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