40 Wedding Cakes too Pretty to Eat

June 23, 2020
40 Wedding Cakes too Pretty to Eat

Donut walls, dessert bars, and ice cream trucks may be popular options for your wedding day, there is nothing quite like serving up a traditional wedding cake. From classic white and fondant flowers to bold patterns and unique details, cakes have truly become works of art that are almost too pretty to eat! We’re sharing 40 wedding cakes to help your imagination run wild and to inspire you to design a cake that complements you and the wedding day!

1. Megan Joy Cakes:  This wedding cake is Inspired by European stone houses and all of those lovely textures and colors.

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2. Sweet Kiwi Bakery: Naked wedding cakes are all the rage. Add some floral for a delicate detail. 

 

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3. Pretty Sweet YYC: Opting for a dessert table but don’t want to shy on a traditional wedding cake? Have a baby cake added to the assortment! The best of both worlds. 

 

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4. Cake Fetish Albuquerque: Add some non-edible details to your cake! The pompous grass and cotton add a dessert feel to this New Mexico cake.

 

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5. Buttercream Design Co.: These white fondant flowers add a subtle pop to the traditional white cake!

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6. The Dessert Studio Utah: A pink wedding cake with a big, yet simple matching bow? Yes, please! You don’t need extravagant details and colors to make a wedding cake a show stopper. Less is more sometimes!

 

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7. Wild Flower Cakes: For a dainty, romantic look Wilf Flower Cakes added colorful flowers and beading.

 

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8. Flour and Flourish: Be bold and daring with a black wedding cake! A few colorful sugar flowers add a beautiful contrast.

 

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9. Grapefruit and Thyme: This luxurious wedding cake sets itself apart with dried fruit detailing!

 

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10. Sweet Cravings by Marcia: We hear modern metallic and marble colors are all the rage!

 

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11. Katy Pierson Cake: From afar this may look like your ordinary monochromatic white wedding cake, but up close you’ll notice the incredible mountain frosting detailing that showcases the Rockies!

 

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12. Momofuku: This birthday cake Milkbar 4-tiered cake is the most fun wedding cake we’ve ever seen!

 

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13. Bake My Day YYC: We love all the various textures and colors this 4-tiered wedding cake is adorned with! The snowy white mountains on the bottom layer are definitely our favorite part.

 

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14. Heidi Cake Co.: Dress up a naked cake with a small layer of frosting that drips over the edge for a fun effect! The inside of this cake though is what has us drooling: vanilla bean cake with lemon curd and cheesecake mousse on the top and spiced crumble cake with cinnamon mousse and cookie butter spread on the bottom.

 

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15. Sweet Cravings by Marcia: This sark black cake is transformed into an elegant centerpiece with the black sparkling detailing and warm floral accents.

 

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16. Astonishing Cakes: This traditional, yet luxurious wedding cake is adorned with the couple’s initials for a personal touch and we absolutely love it!

 

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17. Yvonne’s Delightful Cakes: This rustic buttercream wedding cake is brightened up with a gold leaf fault line and a pop of pink flowers.

 

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18. Maggies Wedding Cakes: We’ve got southwestern fever just looking at this beauty! We love the hand-painted cactus detailing on this Santa Fe wedding cake.

 

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19. The Little Peach: Handmade floral accents and gold detailing on this wedding cake add the perfect touch to this dreamy table set up.

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20. Elle’s Belles Bakery: Have fun with your wedding cake by choosing springtime colors! The orange flower accents really pop against the baby blue cake layers!

 

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21. Elle’s Belles Bakery: All a naked wedding cake really needs is a few real flowers and it instantly becomes a show stopper!

 

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22. Lady in the Wild West: We love this cute little rose gold cake! The Grand Teton mountainscape on the bottom layer is the perfect way to showcase a little bit of home in every slice.

 

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23. A Cake Come True: Velvet is trending and this edible velvet texture is everything we never knew we needed on a wedding cake!

 

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24. Luxe Spirited Sweet: This vibrant wedding cake is perfect for a small romantic I do during the winter!

 

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25. Sweets by Sam: This vintage-western inspired wedding cake is perfect for your big barn wedding celebration!

 

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26. Lady in the Wild West: So much texture. So much fun! This romantic little wedding cake was made with buttercream and palette knives.

 

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27. Cupcake Julie: Simple. Sophisticated. Modern. This wedding cake contrasts beautifully against its natural and raw backdrop.

 

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28. Snowbird: A traditional white wedding cake doesn’t take much to make it stand out. Off-center it for a dramatic effect.

 

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29. With Love Yeg: Miniature cakes are the perfect size for eloping! We’re crushing on this baby naked cake adorned with flowers.

 

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30. Sugar Mama Treats: We’ll never get sick of textures! The blues and golds complement each other beautifully on this wedding cake. What’s your favorite layer? The silver marbled layer is ours.

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31. Ivory Layers Cakery: Hubba hubba hubba! This stunning hand-painted wedding cake is what wedding cake dreams are made of! So romantic.

 

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32. Culinary Crafts: What a fun twist on the traditional wedding cake! Maybe you don’t like cake, or maybe you’re throwing an alternative celebration. This cake is actually made of wheels of cheese! The perfect centerpiece to any charcuterie board.

 

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33. Oh La La Cakes: Greenery and fruit to dress up a naked cake? Oh, yes!

 

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34. Cupcake Julie: Speechless. This modern wedding cake has perfect terracotta-colored details. We love the modern twist on a southwestern inspired dessert.

 

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35. A Cake Come True: This cake is straight out of a fairytale! The cake is painted with ganache and some subtle touches of gold. Gimme all the texture and colors.

 

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36. Copper Cauldron: This cake reminds us of the beautiful Rocky Mountain skies! The cake itself is made with ricotta chocolate chunk cake, passion fruit curd, and chocolate shortbread crumble. Delicious!

 

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37. Kelly Leigh Cakes: Sprinkles on a wedding cake? Heck yes! This cake screams C-E-L-E-B-A-T-E!

 

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38. Kelly Leigh Cakes: This wedding cake adorned with hand-painted lemons is perfect for a brunch wedding!

 

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39. Cakes Elevated: Think outside the box for your wedding cake design and utilize different shaped layers like this beautiful cake by Cakes Elevated.

 

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40. Heather Olive Cake Designs: This couple chose to be adventurous with their baker and it paid off! The wedding cake showcases a stone, concrete inspired finish with arch detailing.

 

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For more wedding cake inspiration, check out our Vendor Collective!

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