Small Wedding Cakes

I have been talking with bakeries in the Niagara region today about providing a small wedding cake for our "eloping" couples. Not everyone wants a cake but there have been several couples in the past who have enjoyed a cake and glass of sparkling wine after their ceremony. Co-incidentally Martha Stewart Weddings featured small wedding cakes today so here is a selection of them. I would point out that it isn't always just the look of the cake but the also the flavour(s) used. The cakes in North America tend to be more of a madeira sponge type rather than fruit and the icing is usually butter cream which is lighter than standard royal or fondant icing as is used here.

This Groom's cake was his favourite carrot cake

Raspberry crème and almond cake

Little cakes were added to each table. Flavours varied from shaved coconut cream to lemon chiffon to chocolate mousse ganache

Toppers featuring wedding words were on top of cakes flavoured with passion fruit curd, blackberry meringue buttercream and an almond cake with salted caramel filling.

The pale blue rose swirls cover a mint chocolate cake

This is a buckwheat cake with pickled blueberry and lemon cream

A hexagonal chocolate cake covered with vanilla buttercream with crushed pink rock candy added!

Small vanilla or chocolate gluten and dairy free cake with a plain topping

Ombré ruffles covering a coconut cake with ganache filling. The seahorses toppers is significant as seahorses mate for life

The elephant also mates for life and is on a cake with layers of chocolate fudge, biscuit and Bailey's spiked coffee!

These mini cakes were the place settings. All were covered in black and white but some were carrot cake others were pink Champagne flavour.

A yellow cake with chocolate buttercream filling. The Unicorn topper is from Etsy.

Coconut cake with vanilla frosting and lemon curd

Sugar succulents looking very realistic

Serve each of your guests a mini personalised cake

The two tier cake is chocolate ganache and whipped cream, one of the others is carrot flavoured and the third is Nutella hazelnut. 

Tiers of coconut passion fruit and ginger lime.

Blackberries and ivy decorated this cookies and cream flavoured cake.

A frosted olive oil cake topped with fresh strawberries and macarons

A very simple cake covered in gold fondant making a very big statement

Orange blossom honey sponge layered with kumquat Champagne confit topped with vanilla bean meringue buttercream

A S'mores delight. Chocolate cake with marshmallow crème, graham cracker crust with toasted marshmallow icing