Whether you want a completely novel cake such as a minimalists-like arrangement of the happy couple’s favorite cup cakes, one of the variations of traditional white wedding cakes, the wedding cake design, wedding cakes are essential elements of the happy occasion. Indeed it is one of the weddings main fixtures.
Wedding cake toppers, wedding the proper positioning and lighting all contribute to the wonderful impact of a well prepared and presented cake. Wedding cakes pictures, along with groom and bride feeding each other slices of the cake (or in some instances, smearing the cake on each other) video segments, keep the cake sharing memory vividly alive. In this way the cake continues to play the symbolic sentimental role of the wedding it fulfilled at the actual wedding ceremony.
Wedding cake designs are central. Whether the cake you choose is round, square, triangular, six layers high or the icing is chocolate with candy stars, rather than butter cream with fruit, all contributes to the overall design of the cake. Clearly, design is particularly important in the case of those fabulous showcase works of art being turned out by some innovative bakers. These jobs are so imaginative and just browsing web pics of these very creative and elaborated wedding cakes themes makes you want to get married or if you are already married have a second wedding.
And some of the cake galleries of the specialty and custom made bakers, including, for the more adventuresome, adult image bakers, have taken the design of wedding cakes to a new level and dimension of absolutely creative work.
Creative culinary combinations, provocative or humorous toppers and the eating of the first slice by the happy couple are institutional and ritual centerpieces of every western wedding.
But that does not mean there is no alternatives, for example:
We can indulge in something very cool, very fun, maybe bad for us but it's small so it's not like, 'Wow,'" said Lois Altman, Ball State University professor. "(The thinking is) I don't have to deal with a $40 cake after I have my piece. It's not a big outlay of calories and not a big outlay for money, either. Just enjoy for one night, and that's it. Just indulge, just enjoy it while you have it and not have to think of it tomorrow."
Cost might have more to do with the cupcakes popularity than calories. It's much more affordable than a regular size cake, Concannon's baker Eric Paul said. The bakery recently filled an order for 1,500 cupcakes for a holiday party. Those kinds of large orders come in during most holidays. Concannon's offers several different types of cupcakes, with cream-filled Red Velvet being the most popular.
Baby cakes
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20091223/LIFESTYLE/912230302
There is even a story out of Japan about a couple that substituted tuna for the wedding cake:
A company in Japan is taking the traditional wedding cake in a very different direction, replacing it with a giant tuna.
In a video on YouTube a Japanese couple cuts a 100 kilogram -- or about 220 pound -- BigEye tuna with a very large knife at their wedding reception, JapanProbe.com reports.
The company has been offering the tuna-cutting wedding ceremonies for about 10 years, Japan Probe reports. A minimum plan costs about 300 yen per person based on 50 guests, which works out to about 150,000 yen or $1,600.
http://www.slashfood.com/2009/12/23/couple-replaces-wedding-cake-with-tuna-fish/
So, the wedding cake can be as traditional, as tiny or large as the happy couple wish; it can even be a massive chunk of tuna.