Blue wedding cakes
Blue wedding cakes
If you know me, you know I love colour. They are my happy place 💜 and blue is absolutely one that I’m loving seeing appear in weddings more and more!
Many couples opt out of having a traditionally white wedding cake, or its counterpart - the naked or semi naked cake, with a rustic look. People used to think that if they didn’t want the white wedding cake, their only other option was a naked cake - but I can see more and more people planning their wedding and thinking outside of the box, leading with their imagination and trust in wedding suppliers!
I don’t believe you “have to have” a wedding colour scheme, but whether you do have one, or you just like blue and would like it in your wedding cake, blue wedding cakes are beautiful and can absolutely be a centrepiece for your wedding.
Between fully monochrome cakes, watercolour painted fondant, fresh flowers, painted flower, wafer paper flowers, marble, or a mix of blue and other colours, here are five ways to incorporate blue in your wedding cake.
Watercolour
Oh watercolour cakes 💜 As its name indicates, watercolour is a paint that is thinned with water, giving it its transparent and fading quality that is so recognisable and lovely. On cakes, watercolour looks like really thin edible paint, whether it is applied by brush or sponge, and gives a cloudy look to your cake - working perfectly with blue!
Watercolour cakes are a fantastic way to add delicate colour to your wedding day, in a subtle way.
Marble
Marble cakes can be achieved in lots of ways, including using fondant, ganache or buttercream. The two cakes I’m showing in this list are both covered in fondant - one is smooth and the marbling is used with different colours of fondant. The other one is all textured and coloured by hand with edible paint, and the marbling comes through the cracks and different textures running on the cake.
Block colour
Block colour - one of the loves of my life. These cakes are a mix of block colour and paint, whether the paint is made using ganache or cocoa butter and edible colours. Mixing textures and block colour gives a really interesting look, as the textures add depth to the design.
On this one, the blue bottom tiers offer a striking contrast with the top two tiers which are white, with some abstract light pink, lilac and white paint. The flowers running alongside the tiers offer a soft and natural element to the dark navy of the bottom tiers.
These three cakes are moody, dark and elegant. The oil painting on them is abstract and stark, and the blue wafer paper flowers cascades look elegant and riveting. If you want a cake that is a block colour but want to add depth and interest to it, think about textures.
The almost abstract flowers on this cake really pop on the blue canva.
If you are wanting *some* blue on your cake, without it being fully blue, what about having only one tier blue, like these two cakes?
Blue flowers
Decorating a white cake with blue flowers is a lovely way to add colour into your design, without it being in your face. Whether they are all blue, or just touches, it will tie in with the rest of your blues beautifully 💙
I hope you’ve enjoyed looking at these blue wedding cakes and that they’ve given you a lot of inspiration for your wedding!