Tiered Wedding Cakes

A Wedding cake magnifies the beauty of the wedding ceremony .Right from the days of the Great Roman Empire to the modern era, the wedding cake has evolved as a significant tradition. The importance of wedding cakes is revealed from the constant experimentation done in the field of baking and decorating the cake. No doubt, the results are phenomenal as are displaced by today's tiered wedding cakes.

In the late 19th century, novelty done with the flat rounded white cakes, paved the way for today's single or multi-tiered cakes. In the earlier times, three-tiered cakes were highly popular because couples would rationally feel the need of using such cakes. The bottom tier was meant for the wedding or the reception party, the middle tier for distributing to the guests and the top one for christening. The particular notion accompanying such cakes was to freeze the first tier of the cake for the first wedding anniversary of the couple or for the christening of their child.

Tiered wedding cakes are no more, meant for English royalty. Now-a-days every couple opts for such cakes and hence the varieties in exotic flavors, varied colors and stylish designs. Iced with marzipan, fondant or fresh flowers, these are embellished with beautiful accessories like toppers, stars, butterflies, stencils, scrollwork and other marvelous articles. Such cakes can feature hand-painted flowers or other designs. The top tier is often crowned with crystal or vintage toppers, representing the bride and the groom. The whole cake can be of one or many colors. Colored sugar flowers, foliage and fruits, parrot tulips, calla lilies, peaches, tiny pears, apple blossoms, leaves and berries hand made out of sugar just create an artistic canvas out of that simple wedding cake. Traditionally the tiered cakes were fruit flavored. But now there is a great transformation .The popular ones are the mousse fillings made up of chocolate, strawberry, lemon, coconut etc. Icing can be done with yummy butter cream, cheese etc. Addition of nuts, caramel and spices just makes the cake more delicious so as to satisfy the taste buds completely. Many a people often go for flavors of sourcream almond pound cake, colored mud-cakes, sponge cakes, cup cakes or even horizontal tiers.

The size and shape of tiered wedding cakes depend on the number of guests. The cakes can be baked and molded into various shapes--flat-rounded, square, heart, star or hex-shapes. A gorgeous cake stand lends an additional look of beauty and romance to the tiered cake. Different types of stands for wedding cakes are available in the market---stands available as single base, stands which come in gold or silver, square or round. Cascaded stands also give good look to the multi-tiered wedding cake. Ribbons and other shining materials are used to beautify columns which are in between tiers.

Tiered wedding cakes are wedding couple's desire and viewer's delight. Traditional or modern- such cakes do always reflect grace, elegance and classic beauty.

Look at these some attractive and delicious tiered wedding cakes as below: