An important part of every wedding is the wedding cake. The wedding cake is a real highlight from a culinary and, above all, visual point of view. The cakes are traditional, multi-tiered, tall and lavishly decorated. If you want to give the dessert a modern touch and delight your guests, you can do so with a beautiful mini wedding cake. The small-format tarts add a special flair to the sweet end of your big day and can be served individually to each guest. If you are looking for delicious and impressive inspiration and an alternative to the traditional cake, you will find mini-format cakes with unique designs and an easy recipe to bake in our picture gallery.
This is how you get the mini format of the wedding cakes
If you want to try out the breathtakingly beautiful and trendy mini alternative, you can order the mini wedding cake or bake it yourself. ADessert in small formatPreparing it yourself is definitely not an impossible project, but it does require good planning. Thesmall wedding cakesare a perfect choice if you want to celebrate your wedding anniversary in the company of only your closest family or friends. Then you will be finished with the great miniature works of art in a short time.
You're probably wondering what's the easiest way to get the mini format? A quick and easy way to prepare the mini wedding cake would be to bake the cake small. You can purchase a special mini baking pan into which you fill the cake batter. Then all you need to do is decorate the little cakes according to the wedding theme.
Another option would be to spread the dough on a baking tray and bake it that way. You can then cut out circles of different sizes or other shapes and put together a fascinating little cake.
Cake made from cupcakes
How about wedding cake cupcakes, for example? The cupcakes are also quick to bake and pre-portioned. You can contact theDecorating the cupcakeslet off steam creatively and create different unique designs. The beautifully decorated mini tarts are particularly suitable for a sweet and original buffet.
Instead of setting up the traditional cake table, you can arrange the cupcakes on a beautiful cake stand and, together with other delicious little things such as chocolates and cake pops, conjure up an impressive sweet table at your wedding reception. Arranged on a beautiful cake plate with a glass dome, they look breathtakingly beautiful and festive.
Mini wedding cake recipe
We have selected an easy recipe for mini tarts from the baking tin for you. Of course, you can use any cake recipe you like and adjust the amount of ingredients depending on the number of servings you want.
Ingredients:
- 150 g Flour
- 4 Owner
- 100 g Butter
- 80g powdered sugar
- 130g white chocolate
- 6 Marshmallows
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Mix the powdered sugar with the butter and lemon juice. Then add the eggs and beat the mixture until foamy. Then stir in the liquid chocolate. Finally, the chopped marshmallows are stirred into the dough together with the flour. Brush the mini wedding cake case with butter and dust it lightly with flour. Pour the cake batter into the mold and bake in the preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Ideas for decorating the small cake
Whether you choose a one-, two- or three-tier mini wedding cake, you can be sure that the dessert will be something extraordinary and will be a huge hit with everyone present at the celebration. And especially if you think about a fairytale decoration for the small cake. There are no limits to your imagination when decorating. Anything you like and that looks really romantic, dreamy and simply happy is allowed.
You can initially choose between wedding cakes with a coating or without. If you want to make a grand entrance, you can serve the wedding cake in a small version without icing. A “naked cake” comes without a coating and is usually decorated with lots of fresh fruits and flowers. If you're getting married in the summer, you can take advantage of the large selection of fruit and prepare a magical wedding cake yourself. Sugared fruits such as grapes, pears or figs, on the other hand, give every cake an autumnal touch.
The fondant coating is one of the classic coverings, not just for wedding cakes, which stylishly showcase the actual cake. The fondant can be used in a variety of ways.Covered with fondant, the mini cake offers an ideal stage for any further decoration. You can use fondant to create delicate flowers, leaves, hearts, dots and any other motifs that decorate your cake.
If you want to bake the cakes yourself for the big day, you have the option of covering the small wedding cakes with buttercream. Preparing the buttercream is very easy and you can vary the taste and color wonderfully, which makes great combinations possible. The only thing you should keep in mind when covering a delicious buttercream is that it melts in warm temperatures and needs to be cooled accordingly.
The combination of chaotically applied buttercream with pretty fondant accents also results in an individual dessert that attracts everyone's attention. Beautiful decorations for the mini cakes are oversized roses or peonies. The large, artistic decorative elements look as if they had just been picked from the garden.
You can also use real flowers to decorate the sweet delicacy. Sugar beads, stars and other sugar sprinkles as well as various color sprays are also ideal for decoration. If you can paint and would like to experiment, you can paint the flowers on the small wedding cakes and give them a romantic, vintage touch. Cakes with abstract patterns and daring color combinations are also perfect companions to the modern wedding.
