Halloween Wedding Cake Ideas

Halloween has rapidly become one of the most popular adult holidays. For couples wishing to celebrate their wedding on or near October 31, the wedding cake design ideas are numerous. Cake designs for a Halloween wedding are limited only to the imagination of the cake designer and the bridal couple.

A Halloween wedding might incorporate the macabre or the mildly spooky. When planning any wedding it is important to remember the wedding cake is generally the centerpiece of the wedding reception. A themed wedding cake for a Halloween wedding will receive more attention than a traditional cake. The Halloween wedding cake will be photographed and talked about by all the guests if it accurately represents the bridal couple's personalities and overall wedding theme.

Colors to consider when choosing a Halloween wedding cake include orange, black, purple, lime green, grey, yellow, gold, cocoa brown, orange-red, deep plum, and even fuchsia. Halloween is a fun, colorful holiday where at times the weirder the combination, the better it might fit the personality of the couple and the theme of the wedding.

A Halloween wedding cake can take about any form. Bridal couples might choose to look to the movies for inspiration when designing their cake. A cake designed in the theme of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christmas with Jack Skellington could be fun and whimsical. For those magical couples, a Halloween wedding cake in the shape of Harry Potter's Hogwart's castle would be unique and visually stunning.

Other ideas include a haunted house cake and a graveyard cake with a large tombstone cake topper proclaiming, "Our love will never die." For a non-spooky Halloween themed, a bridal couple might consider a jack-o-lantern cake or a traditional tiered cake covered in orange fondant with orange butter cream scrollwork. An example of the tiered cake can be viewed at Rosebudcakes.com. For other examples of tiered Halloween cakes, couples can visit the website of Pinkcakebox.com.

A formal tiered cake covered in a butter cream frosting or white fondant can get Halloween flair with tiers separated by orange and purple gum paste flowers. When choosing between butter cream frosting and a fondant cake covering, remember that butter cream may taste better, but fondant will usually look smoother. Fondant will look better on cakes that have a lot of geometric shapes or scrollwork and piping.

Gum paste or sugar paste, is like modeling clay to cake designers. It is used to create flowers and other items to embellish the cake. Designers can turn this sugary dough product into many suitable Halloween themed items. Adornments for a Halloween wedding cake could include mini-pumpkins, skulls, spiders, ghosts, witches, body parts, eyeballs, tombstones and monster heads. Flowers like mums, daisies, roses, lilies and orchids can be created in gum paste in black, purple and orange and added to a Halloween wedding cake.

For a whimsical look, a cake designer can create a topsy-turvy cake where each tier is at a different angle and the finished cake looks like it defies gravity. A topsy-turvy cake iced with black butter cream frosting and piped with white spider webs works for a Halloween wedding. The cake designer can also add gum paste spiders climbing each tipsy layer. Consider a topsy-turvy cake that has been airbrushed to depict a haunted forest scene with Frankenstein and his bride as the cake topper.

If a traditional style wedding cake is not preferred, there are other options. A sheet cake depicting a haunted graveyard can work for smaller weddings. A cupcake tree where each cupcake is topped with a gum paste tombstone with a guest's name is another option.

Why not forget the larger cakes and try serving petit fours iced in orange, black and purple. Petit fours are tiny, finger-sized cakes available in a variety of flavors including butter cream, mocha, key lime, lemon, chocolate, strawberry and raspberry. They can be frosted and decorated to fit any theme.

Halloween wedding cakes should be fun and incorporate the spirit of Halloween with the spirit of the bridal couple. It is okay for couples to break from tradition and choose the macabre for their wedding cake. Most couples choosing a Halloween wedding do not want the traditional. Offering their guests a spooky and unique Halloween wedding cake, will make for memorable wedding moments.