Want to save the budget and not waste a lot of money at the wedding? Then DIY is your way, the more, the better! You can make decor, style the tables, even make outfits if you want to and you can also make a wedding cake. Even if you aren’t much of a baker, you can make a gorgeous wedding cake of a basic grocery store one. The current trend for sheet wedding cakes makes it even easier. Here are some advantages of such cakes and then you’ll see ways to style them.
What Are Sheet Cake Advantages?
Sheet cakes are easier to transport and quicker to decorate, which is a great plus, especially if you gonna do it yourself. There are no dowels or boards or supports between layers making this super user friendly with neat uniform servings.
Such a cake can be (and it usually is) a centerpiece! These long sheet cakes are placed right in the center of the table as they are really worth of seeing and you won’t have to waste money or effort on centerpieces.
Sheet cakes are totally in trend and there are many ways to decorate them yourself and save money on that.
How To Style A Grocery Store Cake?
Pressed Flowers
Pressed flowers are in trend, they are used for decor, invitations and cakes, too. If you like this concept, you can decorate your dessert with some pressed blooms and leaves making sure they are edible or at least non-poisonous. To make them keep their place, brush the area of the cake with edible glue and then gently press the flower there. This idea works perfect for boho weddings and relaxed weddings in spring and summer.
Pressed blooms on cakes and not only never go out of style and are perfect for relaxed summer weddings.
Pansies are amazing to style a wedding cake not only because they are bright and beautiful but also because they are edible.
This basic cake is decorated with bright pressed blooms and leaves, which are a hot trend for summer weddings. (via ecbgstudio).
Dried herbs and blooms on top the cake will give it a chic minimalist look.
This simple styling is very cool and eye-catching, with lilac clover and kumquat slices, great for spring or summer celebrations.
Fresh/ Faux Flowers
Flowers are the most timeless type of cake decor, and you can style your cake with as many as you like. They can be natural or faux and you can create a whole blooming meadow on top the cake. Choose the blooms that match your wedding decor or colors and mix them up with fresh fruit and berries for a yummy look.
This small cake is turned into a whole flower bed with pink liles and dahlias, orange roses and white fillers.
The wedding cake is topped with blackberries, cherries, petals, leaves and pink flowers.
Turn your wedding cake into a whole blooming meadow with lots of white dahlias, yellow roses and orchids, twigs, leaves, astilbe and tangerins and peaches.
This small cake looks like a whole meadow, with orange ranunculus, pink mums, blue and orange blooms and blackberries.
This cake shows off trendy detailing, ribbon, and blush peonies and white orchids make it more sophisticated.
The top of the cake is done with frosting, meringues, sunflowers and white dahlias plus cornflowers for a bold touch of color.
Lilac, yellow and pink blooms and fresh raspberries and lemon will add flavor and interest to the cake. (via birchhousebakery).
I love the detailing of the cake: just some bright flowers and pressed leaves and a clean center, it's like a floral frame.
Add a tropical feel to your cake topping it with bright pink orchids. (via 100layercake).
This is a whole arrangement of grocery store cakes, each of them is done with various pink and orange blooms and fresh berries.
Fresh strawberries and colorful fresh blooms are always a good idea, it's a truly summer wedding cake.
I can't imagine a more tender-looking wedding cake than this one, here you can see peaches and blush dahlias.
Decorate the cake with colorful icing if you want a bolder look, add matching in color fruits and blooms.
If you have a zesty color scheme, such styling would do: orange and yellow ranunculus, yellow petals and strawberries.
Top your dessert with your favorite fruits and bold flowers that match your wedding decor.
The cake is detailed with pink ranunculus, orange roses, leaves and some petals and twigs, it's a beautiful solution for a garden celebration.
These three cakes feature different flavors, colors and blooms, so your guests will have a choice.
Fruits And Berries
This is my favorite type of decor as it’s 100% edible and it adds flavor to the dessert. Any fresh fruit and berries that you like are welcome to turn your cake into something really divine. Paired with blooms or petals they will create a wedding-worthy look.
Top a basic sheet cake with fresh raspberries, blueberries and strawberries and some lemon to enrich the taste.
The cake is styled artfully with fresh pears, kumquats, seeds, some blooms and it resembles an abstract painting.
The cake is decorated with blush icing, topped with cherries, strawberries, white roses and petals.
Blush icing is accented with pearls, dried citrus slices, blusha nd white roses and leaves, great for a pastel wedding.
The texture of the cake is trendy, and the piece is topped with blueberries, grapes and petals plus chamomiles.
This sheet cake is topped with icing, fresh peaches, raspberries, blueberries, cherries and leaves and pink and coral blooms.
Blueberries, kumquat and some neutral blooms and bold petals look great on the textural top of the dessert.
This topping is made with taste! Macarons, red and pink blooms, cherries, strawberries and petals are amazing for a bold wedding.
Look at this beautiful color scheme! Red, coral, yellow shades of fruits and flowers remind of sunsets.
Each piece of the cake is styled with swirls (another cakery trend), fresh chamomiles, raspberries and pearls, this is a tender dessert for the summer.
This cake is done trendy, with ribbon detailing, fresh marmalade, lilac blooms and strawberries and it's amazing for a summer wedding.
This is a gorgeous summery arrangement of fresh blueberries, raspberries, peaches and fuchsia roses. (via thekitchn).
The white wedding cake is a beautiful backdrop for any styling, it's topped with blackberries, grapes, meringues and white blooms. (via leblogdemadamec).
Cut the cake and style it strategically placing fruit and flowers on each piece to make everyone happy. (via nazliandco).
Icing And Calligraphy
The last but not least is another trend, it’s about vintage wedding cakes. To achieve such a look, decorate your cake with icing in a vintage way and then add a calligraphy word on top, and voila! This cake will look minimal and trendy.
Decorate a cake with trendy vintage icing and some black calligraphy on top.
This is one of the easiest ideas to spruce up a grocery store cake: some frosting and black calligraphy on top. Such vintage-inspired designs are in trend.