Alternative Wedding Cakes – Drip Cakes

the latest in wedding cakes

Tartan Rose Weddings

Wedding cakes are no longer the traditional dense fruit cake covered with thick marzipan and white icing, there are so many options and Pinterest is definitely helping couples broaden their imagination with over 500 million cakes currently Pinned. This year there has been one new trend that as been extremely popular, the drip cake.

The drip cake is made by drizzling a ganache or glaze over the top of an already iced cake so that it dribbles over the edge of the cake creating a gorgeous drip pattern. The cake can be naked, semi-naked, fondant iced or buttercream iced. The ganache or glaze can be in a bold or opposing colour, metallic colour, delicate neutral colour or even chocolate or caramel. The glaze is normally very glossy creating a great juxtaposition against the matte cake icing.

This post looks at main three categories of drip cake; metallic, pastel and brightly coloured, and…

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