An over-the-top cake can serve as a memorable, delicious statement piece at any wedding. Here’s a look at some bold and eye-catching ideas for wedding cake design inspiration, including a few savory options, from bakeries and cake designers throughout North America.
Bold Catering & Design in Atlanta created a massive cake centerpiece for a holiday-theme reception. Led by designer Brian Worley, the design team took a full-size tree and cut it to 40 inches, creating a "skirt" with the branches. They then built a custom table and glass topper for the five-tier cake and an arrangement of 500 red roses that cascaded from the top of the cake to the base.
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Miami-based bakery Dbakers Sweet Studio offers a variety of elegant wedding cakes. Its styles include the Travel Cake, which features double espresso buttercream and white fondant with watercolor splashes and gold, with hand-painted decorations.
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Dbakers’ Square Rustic Cake comes with banana walnut cake with chocolate ganache. The cake is covered in ivory marble-textured fondant and “white wood” fondant, with hand-painted watercolors that give a contrast of peach and gray shades. Finishing touches include wafer paper poppy flowers with sugar paste eucalyptus and touches of gold leaf.
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Another Dbakers cake is the Silver Flower: dark chocolate cake filled with passion fruit curd and covered in white fondant. Decor includes watercolor flowers with silver leaf accents and 3-D hand-painted wafer paper flowers.
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New York-based cake institution NY Cake offers a number of made-to-order wedding cakes, created by decorator and co-owner Lisa Mansour. The jewelry-inspired Wedding Diamonds cake consists of diamond sugar crystals and edible gold details with an inside of devil’s food cake and raspberry ganache.
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NY Cake also offers Feather Magic, a cake with lemon chiffon and alternating layers of lemon curd and vanilla Swiss buttercream. The cake has tiers of marbled fondant, edible rice paper, and sugar sequins.
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The Cake & The Giraffe, a wedding bakery based in Vancouver, offers an Into The Mystic cake inspired by constellations. The cake features an illuminated glowing middle tier, which brings light to constellations set against a purple watercolor galaxy.
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The Cake & The Giraffe also offers a blue, two-tier square cake inspired by twilight and the mountains of the West Coast.
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San Diego-based bakery Sweet Cheeks Baking Co. creates custom wedding cakes, including a 10-foot cake—the largest the company has ever created—that served as a centerpiece during a reception. The massive dessert consisted of vanilla cake with cream cheese frosting.
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Sweet Cheeks Baking Co. also created a cake with a halo of hundreds of small sugar flowers, designed to appear as if they were floating. The flavor was vanilla bean with chocolate whip and strawberry cream.
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Freed's Bakery in Las Vegas offers custom theme cakes for weddings. Examples include a chocolate Bavarian floating enchanted castle cake, which stood eight feet tall.
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Those looking for a savory alternative to a sweet wedding cake can find options at Murray's Cheese. The New York-based cheese and specialty food company offers towers including the Truffle Deluxe Tower, which consists of full wheels of Cypress Grove Truffle Tremor, Murray’s Pecorino Tartufello, and Champlain Valley Organic Triple Cream.
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The seven-pound Celebration in Bloom Tower from Murray’s consists of full wheels of Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog, Brillat Savarin, Kunik, and Champlain Valley Organic Triple Cream. Rind cheeses give the illusion of frosting.
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The Let Them Eat Cheesecake Tower from Murray’s offers three varieties of milk types—cow, goat, and sheep—with wheels of Brebirousse D’Argental, Brillat Savarin, and Valencay.
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