Purple wedding cake: unusual solutions and tips for choosing

Cake is an integral part of a wedding celebration. This article will help you choose a beautiful and unusual dessert in purple tones for a wedding and effectively present it to your guests.

The purple wedding is a celebration of incorrigible romantics. No matter how young people disown this, they are still children at heart, dreamy and trusting. And that's great.

A purple romantic wedding is decorated using bright and juicy colors and shades:

• lilac;
• lilac;
• cornflower;
• light pink;
• peach;
• yellow;
• White.

Combinations of these shades are used in the decoration of the hall, wedding dresses of the newlyweds, the bride's wedding bouquet. The main dish of the holiday - the wedding cake - should also be decorated in this color palette.

Before ordering a wedding cake, be clear about what kind of dessert you want.

• Open. Consists of cakes with cream or other fillings. The cake is not covered with thick icing or mastic, so you can see how it is made. The product is decorated with berries, fruits, fresh flowers. Suitable for home weddings and outdoor celebrations.
• With mastic. A classic option for a lavish wedding celebration. Any decorations can be made from sugar mastic:

1. flowers, ribbons, patterns, rings;
2. figurines of newlyweds, animals, birds.

• Marzipan. Covered with almond confectionery mass. It has a glossy surface, like a mastic product.Decorated with flowers and marzipan fruits. Natural berries are not used in the decor: the juice destroys the composition of the mass.
• Crockembush. A fashionable version of a wedding dessert, consisting of individual cakes (meringues, profiteroles, Italian macarons), laid out in the form of a pyramid on a dish.

• A multi-tiered cake in purple tones, decorated with cream curls in the form of blossoming roses, looks stylish and solemn. Gradient color distribution from rich lilac to pale lilac and white is the main highlight of the product. Additional decorations will be overkill here.
• The cake decorated with cream curls in the form of oriental patterns looks very delicate. Twisted zigzags of a more saturated purple hue are applied to the lower and upper tiers of a delicate lilac tone. The middle tier is decorated with white cream rolls. The top of the dessert is crowned with voluminous tea or peach-colored roses. You can add silver and pearl confectionery beads to the decor.
• Craftsmen create various waves, folds, patterned borders, cream puffs on products. You can decorate the cake with original graffiti-style inscriptions, which is important for a youth wedding.

This material provides excellent opportunities to embody any daring ideas. You can create any flowers, fantasy and real, which nature has generously endowed us with:

• purple lilac;
• purple roses;
• lilac lavender;
• cornflower violets.

Floral arrangements are placed on the surface of the tiers or lowered in a smooth cascade down, which looks just amazing. The bright contrast between the cake and the decor looks bold and extravagant:

• snow-white cake and rich purple and pale lilac range of roses, orchids, chrysanthemums;
• pale lilac tiers and dark purple violets, snow-white calla lilies and roses, blue hydrangeas;
• satin ribbons are used as an additional decoration, which fit very harmoniously into the sweet composition.

The idea of ​​decorating dishes with fresh flowers is becoming more and more popular. Natural flowers with their tenderness and aroma will emphasize the significance of a wonderful event. It can be:

• violets and peonies;
• chrysanthemums and asters;
• lilac and lavender;
• freesias and orchids;
• hydrangeas.

Summer is a wonderful time for flowers and berries. An excellent solution is to decorate a dessert for a purple wedding with the following berries:

• blueberry;
• blackberry;
• blueberry;
• black currant;
• blue figs.

For contrast, you can add sprigs of red and white currants, raspberries, physalis flowers, mandarin slices. All this abundance of berries will look great and be eaten with pleasure by guests. Such a cake can either be made in the form of a multi-tiered vase or basket, or make a cascade of fruits, or decorate with a chocolate or mastic cornucopia with natural flowers and berries.

Serving a wedding dessert in a spectacular and unexpected way can make a difference in the way it makes an impression on guests.

The tradition of newlyweds cutting the wedding cake together is one of the most significant moments of a wedding. This is a symbol of a long and sweet life together. How beautiful and spectacular this episode will be, for so long in the memory of guests and newlyweds, the wedding will remain one of the most vivid and amazing impressions.

• The guests are surprised by the chandelier cakes suspended from the ceiling and decorated with glass and crystal trimmings.
• Graceful tables on wheels and coasters made of transparent glass, intricately decorated with flowers and candlesticks, fruit sculptures using the carving technique.
• An illusionist who magically presents a cake to enthusiastic guests.
• Spectacular fireworks at the export of dessert.
• Enchanting show 3D mapping is a fantastic spectacle, which is watched with bated breath. A laser show is broadcast on a snow-white cake. It can be a love story of a newlywed couple, flowers, a beautiful sunrise or a seascape, a couple of swans.

While the guests are watching the image in amazement, the young people cut the dessert. It will be amazing if the snow-white cake inside turns out to be dark purple. Ask the pastry chef to prepare the filling with blueberries, blueberries, black currants and cover the product with white mastic.

• Contact a pastry designer whose work you yourself or your friends and acquaintances have seen. Remember that reviews on the Internet are not the best guarantor of the quality of the artist's work.
• To choose a cake, you need to know the exact number of guests invited to the celebration. One person has from 150 to 250 grams of dessert. Based on this, the weight of the product is calculated.
• Think over the external design of the sweet dish and its filling. Heed the advice of an experienced craftsman. Do not try to combine incompatible things, especially different fillings. Ask for a tasting session and pick one or the other.
• Note that mastic cakes are sweeter and heavier than others.
• Cakes with light fillings of soufflé, yogurt, mousse are less high in calories and are more preferable after heavy and heavy meals.
• Be sure to order your dessert ahead of time to avoid any unpleasant surprises.
• Entrust the selection of products and delivery of the product to a confectioner. An experienced master will do everything on his own much faster and better than you.
• Take care in advance about the place where the cake is stored. The shelf life of the product is 120 days from the date of manufacture.

You can see an example of a beautiful presentation of a wedding cake in the next video.