By Heather Lee, Brides
Hair crowns made of flowers and greenery are always in style—and now, the trend has crossed over into wedding cakes.
Many talented bakers these days are fashioning beautiful wreaths and
laurels entirely of sugar as an elegant wedding-cake embellishment.
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Start
with simply frosted tiers—either using buttercream or fondant—then have
your baker make a wreath or laurel using gumpaste, which is a pliable
sugar dough that can be rolled out to form shapes like leaves. Stick
with just a sugar wreath of greenery
for a simple-yet-elegant look, or add other edible decorations like
handmade sugar flowers or berries for a more lush and textured look.
Prefer something more glamorous? Have the sugar leaves
painted a shimmery gold or cover each one in edible gold leaf for added
shine. You could even add your monogram to the design by hand-painting
your initials onto the tiers in the center of the wreath.
Whatever you decide, adding a sugar wreath is an elegant way to decorate your wedding dessert. Need some inspiration? These examples below are our favorite takes on this chic and sophisticated cake trend.
Soft Pastels
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| Photo by Catherine Guidry Photography; Cake by The Cake Room |
Soft,
watercolor-pink tiers are decorated with an elegant sugar wreath made
of handmade leaves, roses, and navy-blue privet berries.
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Peach, Mint, and Gold
A
sweet wreath of sugar leaves, berries, and roses helps balance out the
gilded sequins and quatrefoil pattern on the lower half of the cake
design.
Wreath and Monogram
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| Photo by Sarah Vivienne Photography; Cake by Couture Cakes |
The
pale-green marbled cake tiers are decorated with a calligraphed
monogram and an elegant laurel wreath made of individually handmade
gumpaste leaves and berries that were wired and taped together.
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Gilded Tier
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| Photo and Cake by Zoe Clark Cakes |
A
delicate trail of sugar wildflowers, white Icelandic poppies, and
blush-pink café au lait dahlias are carefully arranged on the
cream-colored tiers to create a subtle and elegant floral garland.
Gilded Wreath
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| Photo and Cake by Victoria Watin-Jones of Victoria Made |
For
something spectacular and a little unexpected, we love this cake design
that features graceful wings made of sugar soaring above a wreath of
sugar leaves that were covered in edible gold leaf.
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Spray of Greenery
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| Photo and Cake by Earth and Sugar |
Since
greenery garlands and wreaths have become popular wedding decorations,
it's no wonder they've also made their way onto wedding cakes. A simple
wreath of sugar olive leaves, lavender buds, parrot tulips, and
stephanotis enlivens the pale-blue cake tiers.
