Square Wedding Cakes

From LoveToKnow Weddings

Square wedding cakes can be anything from traditional to trendy for an eye-catching end to the wedding.

Traditional Square Wedding Cakes

Most traditional wedding cakes are either round or square white cakes stacked and frosted in white or ivory frosting. Many brides choosing a traditional stacked display decorate their cake with confectionary accents and real or silk flowers in hues that match or complement their wedding colors. An advantage of square wedding cakes is that they may yield more servings then a round cake of similar size.

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Going for the Gift-Wrapped Look

For a new twist on the traditional stacked wedding cake, square wedding cakes are now designed to resemble intricately wrapped gifts. Often achieved with the use of smoother fondant frostings, cakes decorated to look like a stack of wrapped gifts have a variety of accents for beautiful and original looks. Frosting resembling bows and ribbon accompany carefully crafted accents of frosting peals and beads in a variety of colors.

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Mixed Shapes

The gift wrapped look is also done with alternating square and round, or even other shapes to add interest and variety. Square wedding cakes can be alternated with round, hexagonal, or heart shapes to create different looks.

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Square Wedding Cake Stands

Wedding cake stands offer many ways to arrange today's wedding cakes. Some alternatives to a square stacked cake include:

Staggered asymmetrical groupings of individual square cakes
Multi-tiered square cakes separated with pillars
Square tiers divided with spiraled separators or globes
Square towers arranged on a cake with a central columns to create a tower effect
Square cake tiers arranged in alternating angles (giving a diamond appearance)
Square cakes arranged on a 'floating' cake stand with a rear central stabilizer

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Square Sheet Cakes

Although many wedding cakes use stacks and pillars for an appearance of greater height, a square or rectangular sheet cake has several advantages as a wedding cake. The ease and efficiency of cutting make it an excellent choice for very large weddings. If you are on a tight budget, a wedding sheet cake can be lower in cost than its taller stacked or tiered cousins. A sheet cake can also work well with an informal or casual wedding.

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Individual Square Cakes

Individual square wedding cakes are a contemporary alternative to a large wedding cake. Individual cakes can be arranged on tiered cake stands for dramatic effect. Individual cakes can also be individually boxed with a message from the bride and groom and a monogrammed napkin as a wedding favor. Individual square cakes can also be arranged as a dessert buffet. By doing this you can incorporate a variety of flavors.

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Square Cake Toppers

In regards to square cake toppers, virtually anything goes. Many brides choose cake toppers that can be used as keepsakes later on. If you aren't interested in a cake topper as a keepsake, choosing square wedding cakes with the gift wrap appearance usually eliminate the need for a cake topper as the cake can be decorated with frosting or real ribbons.

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Theme Cake Bases

If you are interested in a cake customized for your wedding theme, many themed wedding cakes start with a square cake base. Cinderella's castle, a sandcastle, a city skyline, and many more theme wedding cakes are achieved by using combinations of square, rectangular, and other cake shapes.

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Groom's Cake

The groom's cake, often served at the rehearsal dinner, or used as an alternate wedding cake flavor, is often based on a square cake as well. Since a groom's cake is usually designed with the groom in mind, this could be a football field, the greens of a golfing course, or any other design that reflects the groom's interests.

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