Sweet Pea Cakes

White sweet pea wedding cake by Willow & Bloom left, The Designer Cake Company right — White sweet pea wedding cake by Willow & Bloom left, silver leaf and sweet pea celebration cake right by The Designer Cake Company

The delicate petals and trailing tendrils of the sweet pea make it one of the prettiest flowers of early summer and just perfect to adorn a summer wedding cake or celebration cake. Learn how to make this exquisite sugar flower with Jacqueline Butler’s brilliant gumpaste sweet pea tutorial in her Craftsy class, linked at the bottom of this feature.

Sweet pea wedding cake by The Pretty Cake Company

Blushing Blooms wedding cake by Peggy Porschen, Georgia Glynn Smith Photography — Peggy Porschen’s “Blushing Blooms” wedding cake is given an authentic summer garden feel with trailing sweet pea tendrils (Georgia Glynn Smith Photography)

Sweet pea wedding cakes by PetalSweet left, Cakes by Krishanthi right

Gumpaste sweet pea by PetalSweet

Sweet Pea wedding cake in peach Charlotte Emily Cake Design — Sweet pea wedding cake in peach by Charlotte Emily Cake Design

Gumpaste sweet pea in peach by Tea Party Cakes — Gumpaste sweet pea bouquet by Tea Party Cakes

Sweet Pea and Roses cake by Poppy Pickering — A mixed cake top bouquet of sweet pea, roses and anemone by Poppy Pickering

Deep pink sweet peas wedding ckae with garden flowers by The Designer Cake Co. — Deep pink sweet pea mixed with soft shades of ranuncula, roses, white blossoms and rose leaves for a pretty garden style wedding cake with antique borders by The Designer Cake Company

Sweet Pea wedding cake with mixed flowers by The Designer Cake Co. — A close-up of The Designer Cake Company sweet pea wedding cake

Floral wedding cake by Bobbette and Belle left, Sweet Pea Wedding Cakes by Judi Delaney right — Gumpaste sweet pea feature amongst the mixed blooms on this spectacular floral wedding cake by Bobbette and Belle left, with a pretty trailing sweet pea wedding cake by Wedding Cakes by Judi Delaney right

Sweet pea wedding cake by Poppy Pickering, Colin Murdoch Studio l, Jasmine Clouser The Couture Cakery right — Sweet pea blended with roses and with peonies in wedding cakes by Poppy Pickering (Colin Murdoch Studio) left and Jasmine Clouser 0f The Couture Cakery right

Sweet pea wedding cake by Roses by Moonlight

Gumpaste sweet pea by Petal Sweet left, sweet pea and roses cake by Leslea Matsis right — PetalSweet’s exquisite gumpaste sweet pea, left and a vintage style sweet pea and roses cake by Leslea Matsis, right

Gumpaste sweet pea by Petalsweet left, floral wedding cake with sweet pea by Rachelle's Cakes — Lilac sweet pea by PetalSweet left, and a mixed pastels wedding cake with sweet pea by Rachelle’s Cakes, right

Gumpaste sweet pea by Siobhan Buckley Sugar Art — Fabulous gumpaste sweet pea by Siobhan Buckley Sugar Art

Sweet Pea cake by Sweet Love Cake Couture — Sweet pea cake by Sweet Love Cake Couture

Sweet Pea cake by Morningside Bakes left, sweet pea cookies by — Sweet pea cake by Morningside Bakes left, sweet pea cookies (uncredited)

Sweet pea cake by The Chocolate Strawberry — Sweet pea birthday cake by The Chocolate Strawberry

Floral garland wedding cake including sweet peas and tendrils by Sugar Boy Ed — Floral garland wedding cake featuring sweet pea blossoms and tendrils by Sugar Boy Ed

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