Naked wedding cakes are ideal for brides on a budget

 

Wedding Cake

Your wedding cake will be one key detail you may have to make your decision based on many factors such as colour, theme and style but most importantly your budget. Wedding cakes can take a big chunk of your budget if you lay huge emphasis on the outside and less importance on taste. The most important thing is to have a clear understanding of what you want and how much you plan to spend, the firmer idea you have of your budget and the style of cake design you are looking for, the easier you are likely to spend less and choose wisely too. Less is more especially when it’s already delicious and if you are strictly working on a budget and looking to cut cost in every detail, here is a great place to start.

The naked cake

The new trend of unfrosted wedding cakes brings the desired relief for brides on a budget and also proves that you don’t need fondant or massive butter cream to make a beautiful wedding cake. Each layer of cake can look perfect without any help of icing or decorations.

These delightfully simple cakes make a statement by baring it all as it doesn’t wrap itself in a giant cloak of fondant. This cake doesn’t cover itself in a dress of ruffles. She stands there tall and proud to be totally naked and free from the excessive sugar coatings, great for today’s wedding guests who often take the icing off the cakes themselves.

Massively cheaper

Guess what bride? It’s cheaper to have a naked wedding cake with no icing and very little decoration, it will be massively economical as fondants and icings and sugar crafting takes longer to achieve than a naked cake which prides itself in the taste and flavors too.

Getting the layers looking nice is easy to achieve and works out a lot cheaper- perhaps half of what a traditional wedding cake would cost as an awful lot of the price is the time spent on icing. It takes a lot of time to get an iced cake smooth and if you wanted more decoration like piping, flowers etc that takes more time. I don’t think people really appreciate how long cakes actually take to make.

Key factors

Fruit is also often used as decoration with or without flowers and icing sugar is dusted literally all over the cake.

Keep the decorations simple just like the wedding cake and the overall effect will be stunning, use flowers, sugar petals, fruit and even more simple – a sprinkle of icing sugar or sugar.

You can explore various flavors, layers and toppings like chocolate, lemon, almonds, strawberries, caramel and more.

Most important detail to note is that naked cakes cannot stand for long so you have to share it as soon as you finish cutting it and you can also use it as dessert if you are having a small intimate wedding.