Beautiful Wedding Cakes Design Inspiration

Toile Cake Designs

Beautiful artwork never goes out of style and with handpainted cake art exploding in popularity, exquisite antique toile patterns have become the one of the most chic and admired vintage cake styles of the moment. The Cake Opera Company and Pasteles Alma have created the two outstanding toile masterpieces above, left and right respectively, with […]

Midsummer Night’s Dream Wedding Cakes

The Shakespearian tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a beautiful, classical theme for a summer season wedding, providing lots of design inspiration for a nature-inspired, fairytale wedding cake. The magical forest setting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is captured wonderfully in the wedding cake designs above by The Butter End Cakery (left) and Sky’s The […]

Bas Relief Cake Decorating

Bas relief is a fabulous technique for cake decorating that has been brought to the fore by the innovative cake designs of US designer, Maggie Austin. Bas relief is a term borrowed from the art of sculpture and refers a pattern that is raised up from the surface of a piece of art. Two fine examples […]

How To Put Baby’s Breath Safely On Cake

Delicate, lacey bouquets of baby’s breath (gypsophila) is a key floral trends for bridal bouquets and it works surprisingly well for both summer and winter weddings. However, the questions we get asked the most about baby’s breath wedding cakes are: Is baby’s breath edible? NO Is baby’s breath toxic? YES Is gypsophila poisonous? YES Is […]

Lace & Metallics

Vintage lace and antique effect metallic finishes make a wonderful pairing for a glamorous wedding cake design. Our stunning feature cake above combines a fabulous mesh lace bordered with baroque style flourishes and an “aged” effect silver metallic bottom tier in a terrific design by Sydney’s Yummy Cupcakes and Cakes. While a metallic finish usually […]