Alaska Wedding Cake Ideas
Alaska's landscape, flora and fauna provide all the inspiration you could ever hope for when it comes to wedding cake design ideas. Native wildflowers and butter cream frosting is always a winning combination.The many animals and birds found in and around Alaska might spur your imagination as well. They include moose, polar, grizzly, and black bears, caribou, bald eagles, willow ptarmigans, sled dogs or huskies and many others. Add their silhouettes to a 3-tier fondant wedding cake airbrushed to resemble the Alaskan sunrise or sunset, complete with wilderness, mountains, ocean or glaciers.
Another fun idea might include making the top tier of your cake an iceberg, and paint the lower levels shades of blue to represent the ocean. You can then add your favorite Alaskan sea creatures to the various tiers, including Orca whales and sea otters. Add a sea lion couple in tux and dress as a topper for an extremely cute and appropriate presentation.
If you are marrying in spring or summer, consider using wild native forget-me-nots (Alaska's state flower) to decorate your cake. These cheerful blue and yellow flowers will add sunshine to your special day, even if the Alaskan weather doesn't cooperate.
Local Alaska Wedding Bakeries
While grocery stores and restaurants may be able to make a wedding cake, your best bet for finding a specialty bakery will be in larger towns such as Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage. A few notable bakers are also scattered across the state's small towns. Most shops will also serve many of their surrounding communities. Alaska bakeries include:- Alaska Cakesations of Anchorage specializes in creative cakes with an eye toward elegance and fun. Schedule a creating consultation to find the point where "flavor meets art."
- Superstar Pastry Designs is another imaginative Anchorage option for wedding cake design. Fondant, butter cream, novelty, mini-cakes and more are made to order, and recipes can easily be matched to your own palate with a tasting session by appointment.
- In the small town of Wasilla, Indigo Desserts has been creating some of Alaska's finest wedding confections, which you can browse through in their large website photo gallery.
- A relatively recent addition to the Anchorage Bakery scene is Simply Sweet Cake Design, a shop which can work from your drawing to create a masterpiece, or inject their own considerable flair and design into a cake based on your wedding colors or theme. From funky and retro to elegant and modern, this little shop delivers!
- For the past 15 years, Two Sisters Bakery in Homer, has been making sweet treats with a focus on using fresh, local ingredients whenever possible. Their classically-styled wedding creations often feature fresh flowers and traditional butter cream frosting.