Tropical Wedding Cakes

Tropical Wedding Cakes
Ideas and Decorations

Are you planning for a wedding at some tropical destination or a tropical themed wedding? Then, I believe you have well planned for the theme based decoration and wedding flowers.

But, there is one more thing that is as important as any other to make your theme wedding the wedding you have always dream of - the tropical theme wedding cake.

A wedding cake with tropical flowers will compliment your wedding like none other and leave an ever lasting memory for you and your guests.

Tips for creating tropical theme wedding cakes

Tropical theme wedding cake derives its inspiration from nature. Thus, every cake is exquisite and unique in itself.

There is a large scope of decoration in the tropical theme wedding cake depending on your imagination and your baker’s talent.

Following few things should be taken into consideration while planning the wedding cake.

Size of the cake:

For selecting a wedding cake, one should first decide the size of the cake; a large cake for wedding with several guests or a modest cake for wedding inviting only family and friends.

Structure and style of the cake:

The cake can be either slab cake, tiered cake or made up several cup cakes elegantly arranged on a glass tray. The style of decoration can be simple or elaborate according to your own choice. The colors used in tropical wedding cakes are generally bright.

Design and decoration of the cake:

A tropical wedding cake can be decorated with vibrant tropical flowers and fruits etc either real or made up of icing and other edibles.

Tropical wedding cake decorations

Few adornments for a tropical wedding cake are as follows:

Flowers: Vibrant tropical flowers, like hibiscus, lilies, orchids, Heliconias, are used in tropical wedding cakes. One can use either fresh non-toxic edible flowers or molded flowers made from icing and other edibles. Flowers can embellish the cake in bouquets at the top, cascades from the top in tiered cakes, elegant edgings, draping around each tier or can be scattered. Large fresh tropical flowers, like bird of paradise, can be decorated in flower holders between tiers.
Fruits: Sliced, peeled fresh tropical fruits can be used to decorate the cake to add flair and color to it. Some tropical fruits that can be used are mango, papaya, golden pineapple, red strawberries and oranges.
Decorations inspired by sea: Real looking shells, sand dollars and starfishes made of fondant and icing add style to the cake. Sandcastles, sailboats, surfboats, dolphins and waves are other things that can be molded from edibles and added to the cake.
Rum: It enhances the tropical sweet flavor of the cake and can be used in various ways. One can either brush the cake with rum syrups or use the rum based icings.
Icing: Either the same type of icing can be used on whole cake or one can chose different flavors of icing for different tiers. This will give a choice of flavors to the guests. The various flavors of icing can be banana, mango, pineapple, guava, coconut and lemon etc.
Topper: The topper is the optional decorative piece on the top of the cake. It can be elegant or plain and made of anything ranging from flowers, crystal, glass, plastic, or ceramic.

Keeping these few things in mind, you can get an impressive tropical wedding cake for your wedding and enjoy a perfect tropical wedding.

Tropical wedding cake ideas

Given below are some examples of beautiful tropical theme wedding cakes:

A cascade of tropical flowers adorns this delectable vanilla bean fantasy cake. Bright colors against white are the perfect combination for a tropical wedding

Dark blue fresh flower accents give this otherwise-traditional wedding cake a distinctive tropical flair.

A lush, festive spray of tri-colored flowers spread over a delicious cream cheese frosting gives a warm welcome to guests at your tropical wedding reception.

Duos of roses in shades of red and yellow give the intricate white piping on this four-layered cake a special tropical touch.

Gently folded vanilla fondant gracefully accepts accents of pastel rosebuds. This cake denotes springtime in the tropics

The rich, royal colorscape of this tropical creation give your wedding a special touch of the elegance of nature on a warm, tropical island

Nothing says tropical like an array of exquisite orchids accented by small red roses. This small three-tiered cake is made grand by its floral additions.