Iced Images Cakes - The Wedding Cake Blog

  Paul and Meena were married at Eastwell Manor, Ashford on Good Friday 2017. It was a beautiful sunny and warm spring day.   They chose a 3-tier naked wedding cake filled with buttercream and decorated in fresh fruits.   A naked cake is a cake whereby there is no icing or frosting on the outside of the cake so that you can see the stacked sponges. The internal structure of the cake with the dowels and boards is exactly the same as any iced wedding cake, even though the cake is much lighter than an iced one.   The fresh fruit adds loads of colour to the cake and makes a fabulous alternative to a traditional cake, all looking fabulous at the most beautiful Eastwell Manor.   Paul and Meena cutting their wedding cake at Eastwell Manor  

 Most of the naked cakes you see are generally made of vanilla sponge, giving the same golden yellow appearance across the tiers. More recently couples have been mixing flavours and adding may be a chocolate tier or a toffee tier giving a naked cake with different colour layers. Our client Ornela, who was married at The Gardens, Yalding wanted a naked cake all in Red Velvet Sponge, very unusual. I think you'll find the finished result looks amazing, the red velvet sponge against the white buttercream looks stunning, enhanced by the fresh fruits and white flowers and gypsophilia. Fabulous photograph by  Shell Spurling Photography . I love this shot looking down on to the top of the cake, its one of my favourites. This is one of my favourite cakes and its one I often share with clients when they are looking for ideas and to show them that it's ok to be different. A naked cake is a cake where the sponge on the outside of the cake is left bare with only frosting / buttercream betw...