How to Decorate a Wedding Cake Without Spending Too Much Money

Wedding cakes are becoming more and more popular, getting more attention, and are getting more expensive. Many cakes run into $10 a slice! With new advents like fondant and gum paste and sugar art flowers and decorations, your standard wedding cake seems dull in comparison. Any of these decorative elements, the gum paste flowers, the intensive frosting decorations, and the fondant are all very expensive, labor intensive tasks, which make your cake much more expensive. However, as pretty as they are, most people do not get a good look at your wedding cake, so perhaps you might want to allocate the $700 or so differential between a standard wedding package wedding cake and a specialty a fondant covered cake with sugar or gum paste flowers , and put that $700 towards something else at your wedding. Of course, you would still like a tasty, pretty cake. Why not have a good tasting cake with simple decorations and add something to your cake? A simply frosted cake can be obtained from even a grocery store bakery. Keep the frosting detailing simple and monotone if you are going to be adding extra details. Thin, swirly lines are a relatively inexpensive frosting design that you can add garnishes to. Here are some example ideas.

As beautiful as gum paste flowers are, the more realistic they become, the more they cost to just look like real flowers. So why not use real flowers instead which are actually cheaper than gum paste? As long as a flower is edible and has not been exposed to pesticides, and the stamens (the dusty pollen spikes) have been removed, flowers like fresh roses are much cheaper to use than having gum paste commissioned. Your florist can make a caketop arrangement and some flowers that are wrapped in wire and green tape or in a small water tube that can be inserted directly into the cake. If you are crafty, you may be able to do this yourself or have a friend do so. Usually a bakery will place your cake topper flowers on the cake for no charge.