Although many Alabama Gulf coast bakeries have a catalog of different cake styles for your review, your baker should be able to custom-design a wedding cake using your colors, theme, hobby, dress, bouquet, or anything else deemed central to the event as inspiration.

Before you begin daydreaming, be sure you have decided on how much you are willing to pay per slice to get the cake you want for your Alabama beach wedding. Most bakeries will deliver your cake to the reception or other event location, however, make sure your baker knows that you are having your reception on the beach and can deliver your cake to the beach location without terrain delays.

Let your cake reflect you and your soon-to-be husband. Those into surfing, boating or other water or beach sports may want to draw their designs from their hobbies. Imagine a cake with the perfect wave and bride and groom surfers in wedded bliss riding the crest. Addicted to beach volleyball? Your wedding cake can sport a net and sand. Water is of course a key element in many beach cake designs, whether on its own or paired with sand and other architectural elements.

If your beach wedding is a casual affair, you might want to think about portable types of wedding cake. Cupcakes and petit fours are both great for more casual weddings and are easy to serve; they can be decorated with any of the beach themes above or below.

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http://www.chefsatyourdoor.webs.com/
http://www.hopescheesecake.com/
http://www.cakesbyjudi.com/
http://www.maryscakesandpastries.com/
http://www.criswellcatering.com/

Ideas for Beach Wedding Cakes:

Beach Wedding Cake with Seashells
One of the favorite motifs of beach brides is seashell. Seashells can be incorporated into a beach wedding cake easily in a variety of ways. Seashells can be created from icing, marzipan, molded chocolate (dark, milk or white chocolate) or other candy. The colors can be natural or in any shade the bride desires. Some wedding cake designers even incorporate real seashells into their creations.

Shells can be used as a key part of the design, or as a subtle accent. If you want to use them as an accent, make sure to use naturally colored varieties that will not overshadow the other elements of your cake. Consider using seashells with real flowers such as roses for an elegant and natural wedding cake design.

Beach Wedding Cake with Tropical Flowers
One of the most stunning elements of a beach wedding is often the abundant tropical flowers. Whether your cake designer uses fresh blossoms or creates flowers from icing or other edibles, flowers can adorn your cake in bouquets, cascades or elegant edgings.

Beach Wedding Cake with Sea Life
Some of the creatures of the sea offer the basis for wedding cake inspiration. For example, what dolphin-loving bride wouldn't love a wedding cake topped with waves crafted of curls of white chocolate and molded chocolate dolphins.

Create a pearl-finished cake topped with an open oyster shell confection. The shell can hold a miniature bride and groom, rings or other wedding icons. Other popular sea creatures include sea horses, mermaids and sea stars.

Beach Wedding Cakes that look like Sandcastles
The most delicious sandcastle you have ever tasted could be your wedding cake. A baked confection in the shape of a sandcastle – as elaborate as you can imagine – is the perfect cake for a playful couple. If you use a natural colored sandcastle cake, you can use brown sugar for the "sand" and place seashells around the base of your castle.