Deborah Chan
Vintage wedding cakes are a beautiful way to add a touch of nostalgia to your big day. Whether you opt for a single-tier or towering tiers, there are many ways to create a vintage look. From intricate lace scrollwork to sugar flowers, pearls, and bows, vintage wedding cakes often take inspiration from traditional cake decorating methods. To get the vintage look, you can layer your buttercream accents, starting with larger tips and moving to smaller piping.
| Characteristics | Values |
|---|---|
| Colour | Pale blue, yellow, white, ivory, gold, blue-green |
| Tiers | Two-tiered, square tiers, single-tier |
| Icing | Buttercream, fondant |
| Details | Lace, ruffles, bows, pearls, sugar flowers, polka dots, gold details, scalloped details, piping |
| Toppers | Roses, peonies, vintage-inspired cake toppers |
Lace details
To create lace details, you can use buttercream frosting or fondant. If you're using buttercream, pipe delicate lace scrollwork onto your cake. For a smooth finish, make sure your buttercream is very smooth and bubble-free. You can use an immersion blender to achieve this. If you're using fondant, you can create lace details by using a lace-patterned rolling pin or embossing the fondant with a lace pattern.
For a truly vintage look, consider adding other details such as sugar bows, pearls, and intricate ruffles. A pop of colour or a vintage-inspired cake topper can also add a unique touch to your lace-detailed vintage wedding cake.
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Sugar flowers
For a vintage-style wedding cake, you could also consider using lace details and hand-piped bows. You can pipe lace scrollwork and bows using buttercream frosting. To get the vintage look, layer your buttercream accents, starting with larger tips to lay down a base and continuing with smaller and smaller piping. Make sure your buttercream is very smooth and bubble-free. You can use an immersion blender to make it super creamy.
Another idea for a vintage wedding cake is to use sugar pearls and intricate ruffles. Smooth white fondant is the perfect canvas for intricate vintage details. You can also use gold details, which pop against a smooth fondant background. If you're using fresh flowers on your cake, go for pastel shades, which will lend a timeless feel to the design.
Finally, if you're looking for a more rustic vintage cake, you could try using burlap ribbon and baby's breath. A wood slab cake stand complements this design. You could also add a pop of colour to your vintage cake with a cake topper or fresh flowers.
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Vintage prints
Buttercream frosting can be piped with delicate lace scrollwork, and blue and white lace provides an instant vintage feel. Intricate white lace and pearl details can be added to a two-tiered cake for a vintage aesthetic. You could also try a pale blue vintage wedding cake adorned with ornate white frosting and fresh pastel flowers.
For a rustic touch, add burlap ribbon and baby's breath to your vintage wedding cake. Complement the design with a wood slab cake stand. If you want to use vintage prints, you can layer your buttercream accents, starting with larger tips to lay down a base and continuing with smaller and smaller piping. Make sure your buttercream is very smooth and bubble-free.
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Buttercream piping
To decorate a vintage wedding cake with buttercream piping, you can pipe delicate lace scrollwork, polka dots, or hand-piped bows. You can also pipe ruffles by marking equal spaces around the top and bottom thirds of the cake, which will serve as a guide for the ruffles.
To achieve the vintage look, layer your buttercream accents, starting with larger tips to lay down a base and continuing with smaller piping. Make sure your buttercream is very smooth and bubble-free. An immersion blender can help with this.
For a vintage wedding cake, consider a white-on-white colour scheme, which brings a timeless elegance. Alternatively, blue and white lace provides an instant vintage feel. You can also add a pop of colour to a white cake, or opt for a pale yellow cake with white sugar flowers for a romantic touch.
Vintage-style wedding cakes often feature intricate details and traditional cake-decorating methods. They can be single-tier or towering tiers, but either way, buttercream piping is a great way to add vintage-inspired details.
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Gold details
If you want to keep things simple, gold details can also be added in more subtle ways. A gold monogram, for example, can be a beautiful addition to a white cake, especially when paired with other details such as crocodile embossing. Gold can also be used to accent the florals on your cake, with gold-painted leaves and sugar flowers with golden accents.
For a vintage-inspired cake, gold rococo details can be a great way to add a sense of opulence and glamour. Classic damask patterns can also give your cake an old-world look, and can be used to decorate the entire cake or just one statement tier.
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Frequently asked questions
White-on-white brings a timeless elegance to your cake, but you could also use a pale blue with white frosting, or a white cake with a pop of colour.
You could use lace details, hand-piped bows, pearls, intricate ruffles, sugar flowers, or a vintage-inspired cake topper.
You could use buttercream icing or fondant icing.
