Cinderella Wedding Cakes

One of the most popular and romantic themes for weddings is the story of Cinderella. Starting with beautiful ball gown style wedding dresses, a bride can choose romantic, story book features throughout her wedding plans, all the way through to Cinderella wedding cakes. Because of the popularity of princess themed weddings, there are many different options for Cinderella wedding cakes including the style, design and cake topper that a bride should consider when meeting with the selected baker.

Traditional Styles and Modern Features

Cinderella wedding cakes have traditionally been a round, tiered cake, with soft, white butter cream frosting and a cake topper of the princess and prince dancing away to their life happily ever after. However, new trends in cake decorating have brought edible, shimmering or metallic sugar. You can have your cake dusted with iridescent sugar crystals that sparkle and shine with your reception lighting. Or you may choose to have elements of the cake such as the flowers, decorated with silver or gold metallic paints.

A bride choosing the style for her Cinderella wedding cake may want to consider a heart shaped cake to continue the romantic Cinderella theme.

Design of Cinderella Wedding Cakes

The traditional three to five tiered Cinderella wedding cakes can be modified for more creative options. The stacked design of the cake can be replaced with a special cake holder provided by the bakery where as many as seven to ten individual cakes are held in an ascending style with the top layer as the feature. You could also consider a design where the first three tiers of the cake feature one cake topper or decorative element from the Cinderella story and two more tiers above the mid-point of the cake could have another cake topper.

The structure of Cinderella wedding cakes is an important design feature, but other elements will be significant to the Cinderella wedding theme. Cake decorators have tools such as special stamps where designs can be imprinted in to the icing. You can choose from traditional items such as your initials or more whimsical items such as tiny glass slipper shapes.

Choosing a Cake Topper

Cinderella wedding cakes offer an opportunity to have many different options for cake toppers including collectible, porcelain statues of the princess with her prince. You may also want to consider a dreamy castle made entirely of sugar. The iconic pumpkin carriage is another favorite feature for Cinderella wedding cakes.  If your cake design allows for more than one topper to be featured, such as a multi-layered option, consider using other memorable symbols such as the glass slipper or a storybook made of sugar with ‘Happily Ever After’ inscribed for one of the layers.

While Cinderella themed weddings are popular, the various styles, designs and artistic cake toppers for Cinderella wedding cakes can allow a bride to be creative and unique. Cake decorators have plenty of tools and options that a bride may not be familiar with so be sure to collaborate in order to design a cake to remember. 

You may want to choose a wedding cake with waterfalls to compliment your wedding theme.