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A bridal shower usually only occurs once in the lifetime of a bride. So it’s important that the event be fun, exciting and that it provides an opportunity for everyone to relax, enjoy each other (especially the bride-to-be) and set their “normal” life aside for a few hours.

Even though a bride may only enjoy it once in her life, the number of bridal showers you can help plan can be as many as the number of relatives and friends you have that eventually get married. And one thing all bridal showers have in common is fun activities, gifts for the bride, great food and of course the bridal shower cake. The cake is usually the centerpiece of the occasion and highlight of the day.

Since it is meant to offer well wishes to the engaged couple, a bridal shower cake should be lively, innovative in design and should match the theme colors of the bridal shower. You can go about presenting the perfect bridal shower cake in two ways.

The first option to consider is baking the cake at home. After it’s out of the oven, apply your base frosting with a butter knife. Although white is usually considered the traditional bridal shower cake color feel free to experiment with other colors as long as they will fit in with the overall color and mood theme of the shower. Simply use an applicator to ice the different colors out to the edges of the cake while creating original and interesting designs.

Next, put a special message for the bride and groom on top of the bridal shower cake using gel icing, creating neat and nicely design artwork. For a personal touch, consider also using monograms of the couple’s names and press in some hard or soft chocolate for additional texture. As a finishing touch, accentuate your presentation by tying a colorful ribbon around the cake.

If baking at home isn’t a good option for you, simply arrange to purchase a custom-made cake from a bakery. With this approach, you should still design the bridal shower cake, choose the ingredients, and review your ideas and concepts with the bakery. Your concepts should follow the bride’s color preferences and/or decorating theme of the shower. Working with a bakery may also allow you to get a little more intricate and unique with the shape of your cake, such as shaping it like a pair of high heels or classy handbag if the bride loves shopping (as long as the cake remains feminine and appropriate in feel). Your baker may also be able to create more intricate icing designs to give the cake an elegant, dynamic feel and help make your bridal shower cake even more of a highlight and centerpiece of the bridal shower area.

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