Fall Wedding Cake

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Your autumn wedding may just call for a fall wedding cake! Themed cakes have become more popular in the last few years, and using the colors, flowers, and flavors of autumn offer a great way to make your wedding cake unique. Use nature as your guide as you collaborate with your caterer to design the fall cake of your dreams.

Fall cakes are vibrant.

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Cakes with Autumn Inspiration

A wedding cake in the fall can be inspired by the many colors and flowers available. Take note of the various shades of leaves as the seasons turn. You may even choose to have your cake frosted in seasonal colors.

For the less daring, a cake frosted in white or off-white with seasonal colored icing decorations may be perfect. Consider these fall colors to be part of your wedding cake:

Marigold
Red
Brown
Bronze
Yellow
Burnt orange
Deep pink

The colors can be reflected not only in the icing design, but in floral accents. Use fall wedding flowers like amaryllis or sunflowers in the design or as a cake topper. Fall wedding cake leaves of maple or oak can be created in fondant and scattered across a frosting base.

Because fall is typically harvesting time in many parts of the United States, incorporate this into your theme. Use wheat grass as part of your cake topper or tucked into ribbons outlining the base of your cake. Marzipan or sugar apples, a plentiful fruit in the fall, could be the main feature of a fruit cascade descending a tiered wedding cake.

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Fall Wedding Cake Accessories

While you may want your wedding cake to have a more traditional taste, you can still give it a fall accent. Consider the following ideas:

Silk leaves in autumn colors scattered on and around your cake help to carry the fall theme.
Group small, ornamental squash and pumpkins around the base of your cake and scatter them around the tables.
Combine the colors of fall, from leaves to ornamental squash, with the colors of a variety of fruit. Just before the reception, add clusters of blueberries and strawberries, sliced oranges, and a scattering of macadamia nuts for a unique twist.

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Spiced Cake Recipe

A brown and orange fall motif.

If you are considering a fall wedding, then why not spice up your theme with a spiced fall wedding cake. You can use whatever accessories you like, and you can even keep the outside of the cake white if you crave tradition, but a spiced cake is a delicious alternative!

Recipe

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup molasses
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup boiling water
2 teaspoons baking soda
sifted confectioners' sugar

In a mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar, beating with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Next, add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Blend in the molasses. In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, gloves, ginger, and cinnamon. Slowly add flour and spice mixture to creamed mixture, beating at low speed. Combine water with baking soda, and add this to the cake batter. Pour batter in a greased and floured baking pan or pans, and bake at 350° for 45 minutes, or until done. Cool in pan and cut into serving-size squares. If desired, sprinkle with sifted confectioners' sugar, or frost with desired icing.

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Chocolate Spiced Cake Recipe

For a great change from tradition, how about a chocolate spiced cake instead? This recipe combines the great taste of chocolate with the kick of a variety of spices. Choose traditional white icing, or go for even more chocolate with a rich, chocolaty frosting. The following recipe yields about thirty servings.

Chocolate Fall Cake

1-1/2 cups butter
3 cups white sugar
6 eggs
1-1/2 cups sour milk
3 pinches ground cloves
3 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
3 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate

In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter or margarine and sugar. Next, add the eggs, beating well after each addition. In another bowl, sift together the flour and spices. Blend these dry ingredients into the butter/sugar mixture. Dissolve the soda in the sour milk, and add to the rest of the batter. Grate the chocolate, and add to the batter. Pour batter into a greased and floured cake pans, and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until done.

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Alternative Cake Ideas

Some brides choose to avoid a traditional cake altogether. Pecan, pumpkin, or apple pie may be served in addition to or instead of a wedding cake. The fall theme is easily incorporated by baking several of these and decorating the table with fall colors and accessories, including leaves, branches, pinecones, pumpkins, and squash. Be sure and check out our cake and pie recipes. You'll find lots of delicious ideas!

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