28 Christmas Wedding Cakes And Their Alternatives

christmas wedding cakes and their alternatives

It’s high time to choose last touches for Christmas and just holiday winter weddings, they are a bit more special than regular winter weddings as the couples often incorporate Christmassy touches here and there, which makes them cozier and welcoming. If you are having a Christmas wedding, rock a real Christmassy wedding cake to highlight your wedding date, to make everyone feel at ease and create a cool ambience around. Here are some delicious and spectacular ideas and their alternatives.

Christmas Wedding Cakes

Christmas wedding cakes are amazing and they can be various, trendy or classic, modern or vintage and many other! If you want something super trendy, think of rocking a naked or semi-naked wedding cake, with dripping and fruits, flowers and berries on top. Drizzle wedding cakes can be also buttercream ones, with various gingerbread cookie toppers or sugared cranberries. Actually, topping your cake can easily make it Christmas-like, these can be sugared cranberries, gingerbread cookies, candy canes, pinecones, cotton, citrus, evergreens or traditional Christmas blooms. Using them all you can easily make your cake feel like Xmas, whatever it looks like.

A buttercream wedding cake with citrus, berries and evergreens is a fresh take on traditional Christmassy cakes.

A buttercream wedding cake with citrus, berries and evergreens is a fresh take on traditional Christmassy cakes.

A chic naked drizzle wedding cake topped with berries and dark blooms and foliage for Christmas.

A chic naked drizzle wedding cake topped with berries and dark blooms and foliage for Christmas.

A bark-imitating wedding cake with cranberries, red blooms and a large pinecone on top is chic for a Christmas celebration.

A bark-imitating wedding cake with cranberries, red blooms and a large pinecone on top is chic for a Christmas celebration.

A Christmas wedding cake with a naked part and a cable knit one plus berries and little pinecones around.

A Christmas wedding cake with a naked part and a cable knit one plus berries and little pinecones around.

A Christmas wedding cake topped with fake greenery, berries, pinecones and burlap ribbons for a snowy feel.

A Christmas wedding cake topped with fake greenery, berries, pinecones and burlap ribbons for a snowy feel.

A Christmassy wedding cake with a deer silhouette, greenery, berries and nuts for a woodland wedding.

A Christmassy wedding cake with a deer silhouette, greenery, berries and nuts for a woodland wedding.

A delicious naked wedding cake doesn't require much decor, you may stick to only sugared cranberries and rosemary.

A delicious naked wedding cake doesn't require much decor, you may stick to only sugared cranberries and rosemary.

A gingerbread holiday cake with crushed candy cones, glazed cookies and Raffaello candies on top.

A gingerbread holiday cake with crushed candy cones, glazed cookies and Raffaello candies on top.

A holiday-inspired winter wedding cake topped with fresh raspberries for a Chrstimas wedding.

A holiday-inspired winter wedding cake topped with fresh raspberries for a Chrstimas wedding.

A naked wedding cake topped with fresh cranberry and a sugar deer is a gorgeous option for Christmas.

A naked wedding cake topped with fresh cranberry and a sugar deer is a gorgeous option for Christmas.

A naked wedding cake with piecones, cinnamon bark and greeneery to follow the trend of naked cakes.

A naked wedding cake with piecones, cinnamon bark and greeneery to follow the trend of naked cakes.

A semi naked gingerbread wedding cake with pomegranate seeds, citrus, cinnamon and flowers.

A semi naked gingerbread wedding cake with pomegranate seeds, citrus, cinnamon and flowers.

A semi naked wedding cake topped with a pinecone, evergreens and sugared berries for Christmas.

A semi naked wedding cake topped with a pinecone, evergreens and sugared berries for Christmas.

A semi naked wedding cake topped with dark blooms, berries, apples and gilded pinecones.

A semi naked wedding cake topped with dark blooms, berries, apples and gilded pinecones.

A semi naked wedding cake with white chocolate dripping, greenery and glazed gingerbread cookies on top.

A semi naked wedding cake with white chocolate dripping, greenery and glazed gingerbread cookies on top.

A white textural buttercream wedding cake with evergreens and sugared berries for a clean yet catchy look.

A white textural buttercream wedding cake with evergreens and sugared berries for a clean yet catchy look.

A white wedding cake with sugar trees and sugared cranberry macarons is a bright modern idea for Christmas.

A white wedding cake with sugar trees and sugared cranberry macarons is a bright modern idea for Christmas.

A woodland-inspired Christmas wedding cake with dark, milk and white chocolate topped with berries, twigs and pinecones.

A woodland-inspired Christmas wedding cake with dark, milk and white chocolate topped with berries, twigs and pinecones.

An elegant wedding cake features a white and a gold tier with polka dots and is decorated with a red bloom, berries and evergreens.

An elegant wedding cake features a white and a gold tier with polka dots and is decorated with a red bloom, berries and evergreens.

Serve several naked wedding cakes like this one and top them with pomegranate seeds and fresh greenery.

Serve several naked wedding cakes like this one and top them with pomegranate seeds and fresh greenery.

Alternatives

If you don’t feel like a traditional cake, if you want a budget-savvy option, if you want something different and eye-catchy, think of some alternatives. Donuts are a popular substitution for a wedding cake, use red and green glazing, serve them on a wall or as a tower. Kransakaka is a traditional Icelandic wedding cake, and you may just rock one and top it with evergreens, that’s enough for an unusual wedding dessert. Bundt or wreath cakes are a great idea for Christmas, top them with berries, fruits, evergreens, dripping, pinecones and any other Christmassy stuff.

A chocolate wreath wedding cake with chocolate drip, evergreens and raspberries for Christmas.

A chocolate wreath wedding cake with chocolate drip, evergreens and raspberries for Christmas.

A mini Christmas wedding cake in navy and deep purple, topped with berries and evergreens to make a statement with color.

A mini Christmas wedding cake in navy and deep purple, topped with berries and evergreens to make a statement with color.

A poppy seed bundt wedding cake with white chocolate drip, cranberries, evergrenes, cinnamon and candied fruit.

A poppy seed bundt wedding cake with white chocolate drip, cranberries, evergrenes, cinnamon and candied fruit.

A traditional bundt wedding cake with white chocolate dripping, evergreens, pinecones and sugar powder to imitate snow.

A traditional bundt wedding cake with white chocolate dripping, evergreens, pinecones and sugar powder to imitate snow.

Individual naked wedding cakes with cranberry jam, chocolate dripping, cranberries and holly leaves on top.

Individual naked wedding cakes with cranberry jam, chocolate dripping, cranberries and holly leaves on top.

A traditional Iceland wedding cake called kransakaka topped with real evergreens and pinecones.

A traditional Iceland wedding cake called kransakaka topped with real evergreens and pinecones.

Make a tower of traditional for Christmas mince pies with cookie leaves and adorn the tower with real foliage.

Make a tower of traditional for Christmas mince pies with cookie leaves and adorn the tower with real foliage.