White Wedding Cake Recipes

White wedding cake is a traditional wedding cake prepared for centuries together. This white wedding cake looks elegant and makes the wedding look special. The white wedding cake stands for purity of virgin bride. The cake symbolizes the love and care of the couple getting married. This sort of white wedding cake is shared with the entire guests who come to attend the wedding ceremony.

The white wedding cake can be decorated with the help of flowers and cake toppers. Artificial flowers in various colors can be used or natural red roses, orchids can give a beautiful look to the white wedding cake. A white wedding cake looks beautiful and becomes center of attraction like the couple for the invitees. White wedding cake can gel well in all types of decorations of the venue, flower arrangement, theme of the wedding and bride's dress.

White wedding cakes can also be made in many ways so as to create different effects and patterns. Just changing the shape and number of tiers of the cake can do wonders. If it is a cake of round shaped tiers, just varying the heights of the tiers and complementary designs on them can give the cake an elegant and contemporary look. Tiers can also be designed in lace or frill patterns that may resemble the bride's wedding gown. This gives the wedding cake a special personal touch.

Though white wedding cake recipes are considered to be traditional, they are the all-time favorites and are customized nowadays to unthinkable creative extents in contemporary weddings. Adding a contrasting color especially black ribbon or flowers and accessories can make your white wedding cake even more gorgeous. The best accessories can be crystal and pearl accessories. The white wedding cake best suits a winter wedding. The designs of snowflakes, snow disturbed by wind, etc can be incorporated easily on the wedding cake to give a seasonal look to the cake.

The recent trend to decorate white wedding cakes is to wrap the base of the tiers with fondants and ribbons. Using frosted fruits like cherries and dry fruits. Use of slices of lemons and oranges is also catching up to give the white wedding cake a contemporary look. There are various recipes of white wedding cake.

Take a look at the recipe of white wedding cake:

The ingredients require are as follows:

• 10 cups of cake flour,
• 4 cups of milk
• 2 cups of Shortening
• 6 cups of White sugar
• 10 Egg whites
• 12 tea spoons of Baking powder,
• 4 tea spoons of Salt,
• 3 tea spoons of Vanilla extract,
• 2 tea spoons of Almond extract

The procedure to bake the cake is as follows:

• First in a large bowl, soften the shortening and keep it aside.
• In a mixing bowl, beat the egg whites and add two cups of sugar spoon by spoon. So that the mixture becomes fluffy and blends well.
• In other bowl, sift the flour, salt and four cups of sugar. Add this flour to the shortening kept aside. Mix it well.
• Take three cups of milk and add vanilla and almond extract. Once that is mixed, add it to the flour mixture.
• Add the egg white- sugar mixture and one cup of milk to the flour mixture and blend it together.
• As the white cake in three layered, use three separate greased baking pans to bake the cakes.
• Pour the batter in three different baking pans and bake them for 30 minutes in pre heated oven at 325 degree.
• Let the three cakes cool. Once they are cool. Combine them with icing and frosting. Arrange the layers according to their sizes.
• The cake is ready to serve.