Fall Wedding Cake Leaves

Autumn Cake Flavors

Choose your wedding cake flavor to fit in with your wedding reception decorations. Just because you are having a wedding does not mean you must stick to traditional white or chocolate cake. Consider having cake flavors that make the most of the cool fall weather. Ask your caterer or baker if you can taste the following:

• Spice cake
• Pumpkin cake
• Red velvet cake
• Banana nut cake
• Almond-lemon cake

You can also choose to cover your cake in frosting other than white, too. Fall colors like burnt orange, rust, burgundy, and mustard yellow look stunning against a dark chocolate fondant or a buttercream in shades of ivory and champagne. Do not be afraid to experiment with color to get the ideal look for your cake.

Decorate Cakes with Faux Leaves

A simple way to decorate your fall wedding cake is to use faux leaves. This is simple enough for even the most craft challenged person. To decorate your cake using faux leaves, follow these simple instructions:

1. Purchase a length of fall leaf garland.
2. Clean and wash the garland; allow to dry.
3. Wrap the garland around the bottom tier of your cake, pinning it as you go around.
4. After reaching the start of the wrap on the bottom tier, move the garland up to the next tier, and continue to the top of the cake, pinning as you go up. Doing this at an angle is especially nice.
5. Hide the end of the garland underneath your wedding cake topper.

By starting at the bottom of your cake, you can then cut the extra off the top of the garland at the top. Having a slightly longer length than you need is better than coming up short. Practice this using a cardboard or Styrofoam cake in the dimensions of your real cake.

Tell the cake cutters to remove the faux leaf garland before cutting the cake.

Making Edible Fall Wedding Cake Leaves

Simple cake with edible leaves.

For those who are making their own wedding cakes, making edible leaves is fairly easy. One way to do so is to make fondant icing and cut leaf shapes using cookie cutters. Dye the fondant the color you wish (brown, yellow, orange, red); more experienced decorators could try their hand at airbrushing leaf colors for a realistic look.

Another way to make edible cake leaves is to melt candy disks. Simply purchase yellow, orange, and red disks from you local craft or cooking store. Follow the directions on the back of the package. You may choose to shape your leaves by rolling a dough recipe out and using cookie cutters; or simply melt the disks into candy molds. Chocolate frosted cakes could even be decorated using melting chocolate poured into molds. Deep molds could be used for a 3-D effect.

Finally, you can make shaped gumpaste leaves to add to your cake. No matter what kind of leaves you end up making, be sure to store them in airtight containers (and possibly refrigerate, depending upon ingredients) for safekeeping before the wedding. A good rule of thumb is that most edible decorations can be kept for up to two weeks; less for those that have perishable ingredients.

Fall Cake Leaf Decorating Ideas

When it comes to creating seasonal cakes, your baker is sure to have book upon book of ideas and designs. To get an idea of what you want, peruse wedding magazines and bakery resources to find wedding cake galleries. Begin your search by checking out these decorated fall wedding cake leaves pictures:

• Swirling Leaves by The Dublin Cake Cottage, LLC
• Fall Wedding Cake at Pink Cake Box Blog
• Square Fall Cake by Julie’s Cakes
• Heart Shaped Fall Cake by Julie’s Cakes
• Assorted Fall Wedding Cakes by Diane’s Cakes and More

Colors from a fall wedding are stunning in a bridal party and as part of your wedding decorations. Continue the theme into your cake by making a flavor that speaks to the season, decorated in vibrant fall wedding cake leaves.