Pink Wedding Cake Designs and Ideas to Show Off a Bride's Personality

Pink wedding cakes are popular year after year, but this doesn't mean a bride has limited choices. There are countless designs, textures and decorations that can be added to make your wedding cake unique. Bride's should be careful to pick shades of pink and cake designs that fit their personalities, as well the wedding.

Classy Pink Wedding Cake Designs

Classy brides have refined tastes and choose wedding cake designs that reflect them. Classic wedding cakes aren't boring, but have a simplistic beauty. These cakes often reference a past design era, with a modern twist. This can be done by pulling out and enlarging one or two details of a pattern (a flower, leaf, print, shape or bird) and using the single design to decorate each cake tier.

This is often done with colored fondant cutouts or by painting the cake. The cutouts will lend a more modern feel, while cake painting gives an old world feel. Fondant is readily available at Walmart stores.

Simple swirls iced onto a pink wedding cake are also very classic.

For a classic pink wedding cake, avoid the palest pinks, as the color is too sweet. All medium tones work well for this design, but stick to two or three colors. Hot pinks and fuchsias can be used and are often unexpected. Bright shades should be toned down and contrasted with a soft black or chocolate brown. Other colors to consider are lavenders and pale yellows.

Romantic Pink Wedding Cakes

Pink is a natural color choice for romantic brides. This wedding cake theme can be enhanced by fondant draping and real flowers. Pale pink roses and stargazer lilies compliment this style well. A variety of pink flowers can be used in combination with white, soft purple or pale yellow blooms.

Add edible crystal accents to give your cake a romantic sparkle. This looks especially rich and romantic on a quilted wedding cake. Roll out pink fondant. Starting form the center, lightly emboss with a fondant wheel cutter, making evenly spaced diagonal lines. Do this on both sides of your center line. Then repeat from the opposite direction, creating a quilted pattern of diamonds. Stick an edible crystal in each diamond point.

Pink Wedding Cake Designs for Natural Brides

Brides often love to include their love of nature in wedding cake design. Flower, grass, seashell, vine, leaf, twig and bird motifs are very popular for this. Silhouettes will make the cake more modern. These cake decorations can be iced on, made from fondant and carved out of chocolate.

Natural themed pink wedding cakes often incorporate flowers and feathers as design elements. Pink is also a good backdrop for butterflies, which can hover above the cake on wire sticks.

Various shades of pink are present throughout nature, so brides should feel free to go with their favorite. Colors that will go well with these wedding cake design ideas are other shades of pink, white, brown, blue, beige, light orange and black. To keep the design cohesive, keep shades within the same range of brightness. For example, pairing pink and blue: use pale pink with baby blue.

Pink Wedding Cakes without Real Flowers

Due to allergies, expensiveness and personal taste, some brides choose not to incorporate real flowers. Artificial, icing, sugar and fondant flowers can be purchased if a floral look is desired.

Brides who want to avoid flowers all together can use architectural features or a theme to make their pink wedding cake unique. Fondant molds make it easy to make uniform columns, decorations and draping. KitchenKrafts.com carries a Fleur de lis silicone mold set that would work beautifully on a pink and pale gold wedding cake.

Bold & Sassy Pink Wedding Cake Ideas

Sassy brides aren't afraid of color. Their wedding cakes mix pale and hot pinks with colors like lime green burnt orange. These brides also know to make it sophisticated by adding a calming color, like brown or pale yellow.

Polka dots and stripes are perfect wedding cake designs for brides who love color. They allow the use of many hues, but keep the cake balanced with structured shapes. Dots and stripes can be cut out of colored fondant and applied to a pink wedding cake, giving a three dimensional effect. Alternate by using polka dots on one tier and stripes on another.

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