• A cake decorated with a country theme is a great way to celebrate a wedding, birthday or other special occasion. To obtain the country theme on your cake, you have many options for decoration. The use of a cowboy hat and rope or candle and fountain are popular choices for country weddings. To celebrate a win at the rodeo, horses and hay bales are a great addition to the celebration cake.
  
  

Country Elegance

• Country elegance is popular for weddings and formal celebrations. Cakes are topped with buttercream icing and piping with elongated border icing. Piping is the use of icing in horizontal and vertical lines that cross. These give the appearance of a wicker basket. Elongated icing is the use of bag icing to taper the icing with a start and stop motion. Accompany the effect with large flowers and candles on the cake. A fountain is a great accent on the table next to the cake.
  
  

Country Fun

• Country fun is great for an informal wedding, special occasion celebration or birthday party. The country fun cake will include a horse fence, horses with hay bales and some edible rocks -- created from jelly beans. Use fondant, frosting or candy to create the scene or use small plastic toys. Also, you can create a cowboys and Indians design. Plastic trees and multiple colors of icing are necessary for this cake decoration. To celebrate the winning of a rodeo, you may decorate with a horse and rider with a custom trophy and ribbon. Just warn your guests which items on the cake are edible and which are not.
  
  

Country Extras

• A great way to present the country decorated cake is to place it atop a wood-carved cake tower. Cowboy hats, whether true size or cake topper size, give any cake an authentic country feel. Clean horseshoes (or edible horseshoes) can be included in the cake, or used as an accent piece to the final cake. Rope and a horse-ranch fence can be added to the elegant or country fun cake.