Edible Wedding Cake Decorations

One of the hottest trends for wedding cake decorations right now is edible wedding cake decorations.

It might seem obvious that the decorations on a cake should be edible, but its always been very popular for wedding cakes to be decorated with non-edible decorations.  Plastic do-dads, silk flowers and the like managed to dress up the wedding cake, but they weren’t edible. The style-savvy couple of today won’t settle for plastic trinkets and fake flowers on their wedding cake; couples now expect their wedding cake decorations to be good enough to eat.

Hottest Edible Wedding Cake Decorations Ideas

Here are the hottest edible wedding cake decorations right now:

Edible Gold – Yes, we’re talking real gold, that you can eat. For the ultimate in luxury, imagine your wedding cake covered, or at least accented in real gold.  Consider covering your cake or portions of it with sheets of edible gold, or go or edible gold accents using real gold flakes 0r sprinkles.  Incredibly thin pieces of almost pure gold add a fair bit of bling to your wedding cake. Covering an entire cake in real edible gold could of course get quite spendy, but if you use it selectively, just for accent, you can have a gold cake… and eat it too. Real gold highlights make a wedding cake seem extravagant and and lavish, but the truth is that you can buy a box of edible gold for about $20, and that should be enough to glam up your cake to impress your guests. And yes: it’s safe to eat and has no discernable flavor. If you want a wedding cake that’s as good as gold, edible gold is the ultimate inedible  wedding cake decorations.

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In our next post we’ll continue our count-down of the hottest edible wedding cake decorations. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, check out some edible cake decorations ideas for other occasions (Christmas, birthdays, etc),