Wedding Cake Decorating Ideas

Wedding cakes tailored to the happy couples' taste may be simple and elegant or exquisitely detailed.

Whether you're a cake decorator or a bride-to-be, here you'll find a variety of free cake designs and instructions to amaze the guests and live on forever in wedding albums.

This is just the beginning of our wedding cake section. It will grow and grow and include many elaborate cakes and instructions for the beginner and the advanced cake decorator.

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RaKam Glorious Beginning 


Rich dark fruit cake, layered with royal icing and then covered with fondant. Fine designs, pipings with royal icing. Floral pieces from icing ...

Tie Dye cake  



I airbrushed the background design and than added fondant accents of peace signs, smiley faces, and hearts.
I added wires with fondant accents....

Blissful love 



Traditional fruit cake, covered in marzipan and layered over with fondant icing, decorated with royal icing.

medeival castle 

My friends were having a medeival wedding and I decided to make the cake as their present so what better than to make a castle !!

I did the 4 middle ...

Pink Ribbon 


This is a 4 tier Wedding Cake done with butter cream icing covered in fondant with impressions on the 2nd and 3rd layer and pearls around the bottom ...

Bear and Bees Grooms Cake 

I made this cake for a surprise grooms cake to be served at the rehearsal dinner. It was, without a doubt, a real challenge. I had to do lots of cake ...

Cupcake Wedding 

This was a fun one!
A six inch top cake for the bride and groom. Iced with buttercream and covered with carefully made black fondant. Then piped ...

Wedding Roses 
Bake cakes, 6x6. 8x8, and 10x10.

Insert dowels and cake separators plates between tiers.

Frost smooth in cream color butter cream frosting.

Use ...

My Very first attempt, for my Cousin's Joanne's wedding 

The bottom Tier was fruit with a bit of a kick....ok a lot of a kick using Rum and Brandy, and the middle and top where mediera. Marzipan and then ...

Polka Dot Wedding Cake 

I have to say this is one of my all time favorite wedding cakes I've done. It was for my cousin's wedding reception, which had a fun, festive atmosphere ...

Fire Truck Cake and Wedding Cake 

This was probably the most unique wedding cake I've done so far. The bride and groom were both fire fighters. She found a topper that had a fire fighter ...

Wedding Dress Cake 

I made 4 rounds two layers each, 3 for the top. I cut fondant strips and put them on each edge. I then made a fondant train. I made the lace work ...

Chocolate Ganache Wedding Cake 

I stacked square cakes on top each other. Each cake was iced using chocolate ganche. Rolled fondant accents were made using molds. Scroll design was ...

Fall Wedding Cake 

I made the rounds, stacked them, and iced them in buttercream. I hand made each leaf out of gum paste and used several shades of luster dust to give ...

Sugar Lily Wedding Cake  

I made this Sugar Lily Wedding Cake for an October 07 Texas wedding. The cakes are all vanilla cakes with vanilla buttercream - made just the way ...

WEDDING PRESENT CAKE 
FONDANT AND BUTTERCREAM

Yellow Bridal Shower Cake 

This was actually for a Bridal Shower but came out looking like an actual wedding cake. This is a fondant covered cake using 14, 10 & 6" pans. The ...

Wedding Cake with Roses 

Well let me start out by saying, what was I thinking? I don't bake cakes and for some reason I volunteered myself to my sister-in-law for her wedding ...

Tie Dyed Fondant Wedding Cake 

This tie dyed fondant wedding cake was created for a 60's/70's retro wedding (recommittment). I took fondant in the wedding colors, cut it into chunks ...

Pink Bridal Shower Cake 

This cake was made for an office bridal shower for a girl at our office who is getting married this summer. All her wedding colors are in the softest ...

Shocking Lime Wedding Cake 

This is my first cake done with Rolled Butter cream. The bride,(a friend I work with) doesn't like the taste of fondant but wanted me to get her the ...

Turtle Pie Wedding Cake 

The couple ask me to make a wedding cake that tasted like their favorite dessert, Turtle Pie. I started with a 8,10,and 12 inch butter pecan cake....

Floral 4 Tier Wedding Cake 

The bottom 4th tier was made with red velvet cake. The 3rd tier was chocolate cake. The 2nd tier was yellow cake. The final tier was at the request ...

Anniversary Cake 

I baked a 9 inch and 6 inch choc cake from a box, (substituting freshly brewed coffee for water) and froze. Next, using fondant, I created 17 roses,...

A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING CAKE 
I designed and made this cake for the wedding of Alyssa & Jeremy (10-20-07).

The tiers were 14", 12" 9" and 6". The 14",
12" and 6" were all ...

Petals for a princess 


Bottom and second tier are fruit... and the top is medeira.

I marzipaned and iced with roll out fondant icing in ivory. I then arranged the spots ...

Forever Entwined 

fruit cake, covered in marzipan/ fondant and decorated in royal icing

Black & Red Flowered Wedding Cake 

I made this cake for a friend’s 7th anniversary.

5 to 7 days in advance, use gum paste to make flowers (I used a Daffodil Petal cutter and ruffled ...

beach themed wedding cake 

I baked a three-tiered white cake, iced and filled with vanilla buttercream icing. Each tier was torted into 4 layers. The base icing was ivory ...

Purple Pearls 
3 rounds stacked the calla lillies are made out of gum paste, as well as the bow. I used purple luster dust for the edible pearls and the bow on the cake ...

Chocolate Swirl Wedding Cake  

I was given such a small picture of a chocolate swirl wedding cake similar to this one, and was asked to re-create it for a Texas November 07 wedding....

3 tier gift package cake 

I came up with the inspiration from a few different cakes I had seen in a cake magazine and changed a few colours on them and hey presto this is what ...

Green Glory Cake  

I made the cakes using the hexagon pans. then iced them in buttercream. I used real ribbon on the bottom of each layer. I made the monogram out of ...

Las Vegas Cake 


I've just started my own cake business and a friend who was getting married didnt want any presents so i offered to make her wedding cake for free ...

United In One  Not rated yet

fruit cake, covered with marzipan/ fondant and decorated with royal icing.

Enchanted castle of love  Not rated yet



This castle wedding cake is made with traditional fruit cake, covered and decorated with royal icing.

Lovely in Blue  Not rated yet



Traditional fruit cake, covered in marzipan and layered over with fondant icing, decorated with royal icing.

Groom's enchanted forest cake  Not rated yet

Traditional fruit cake, covered in marzipan and layered over with royal icing. All other decorations were moulded from royal icing.

silver anniversary cake  Not rated yet

I had to bring all my baking equipment with me to germany to make this cake for my aunt and uncle! It was their silver anniversary and I offered ...

Winter Wedding Snowflake   Not rated yet

I made this cake for my daughter's winter wonderland wedding. It was my second attempt at a wedding cake, and it was very exciting. The best part ...

My Sister's Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

3-Tier Chocolate Cake with buttercream frosting. I used orchids and purple baby breath as decoration with simple swirls design. Simple and yummy!!!!...

cupcake wedding cake  Not rated yet

I made the cupcakes with victoria sponge and coloured vanilla buttercream. I have loads of muffin trays so this made it easier making a hundred all ...

3 tier rose and pearl  Not rated yet

The roses are made from flower paste, these had taken a while to do as there were 45 roses altogether!! the bottom tier is chocolate madiera, this ...

Groom's Cake  Not rated yet
Top layer is a mouse cake. It has the initial BM on it because it is my friend's wedding. Their theme is chocolate and pink. The second layer is my ...

Nisby Wedding  Not rated yet
This is a 4 layer marble cake with fondant made roses and doillie design also made of fondant. Everything is eatable.

Red and Gold Cake  Not rated yet

White sponge cake layered with buttercream. Covered with fondant and decorated with red ribbon and gold small flowers and a rose as a topper.

The Perfect Pear Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

Four tiered square chocolate cake, stacked. Smoothed buttercream icing. Wide satin red ribbon for each tier and marzipan pears for topper.

Red ...

Brush Embroidery Cake  Not rated yet

This was an elegant two tiered bridal shower cake. The colors were red, so I decided to do brush embroidery technique and painted the red flowers ...

Lobster Engagement Cake  Not rated yet

I baked 2 cakes in 11x15 pans. Then I torted them, filled them and stacked them, one on top of the other. Once the stacked cake had been chilled ...

Redneck Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

Hexagon shaped tiers set on a 16" square base. Iced in buttercream with white chocolate horseshoes & gumpaste daisies. Separator plate & cake topper ...

Happily Ever After  Not rated yet
This 5 tier stacked wedding cake is covered with rolled Satin Ice Fondant. Trimmed with Gold satin ribbon & string pearls at the base of each layer.
The ...

Jenna's wedding cake  Not rated yet

I made this cake for my daughter's wedding. I used 19", 15", 10" & 6" layers & covered with fondant. The drape is coming off the back of the bride'...

150 lbs of chocolate heaven  Not rated yet

This was a super fun wedding cake...it took lots of work and muscle.LOL
6", 14", 16" squares. With a rich chocolate double layer fugde cake, and ...

Lingerie Bridal Shower Cake  Not rated yet

This bridal shower cake is red velvet cake frosted with cream cheese icing.

The bride-to-be had a lingerie themed bridal shower.

Rosebud Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

This rosebud wedding cake is made with a 12", 9" and 6" heart-shaped, chocolate cake tiers.

They are covered in fondant and gumpaste rosebuds.

They ...

Pink Petals Cake  Not rated yet

The bride said she wanted it to look like the petals were falling off the roses. All the flowers and petals are hand made from gum paste.

3-D Rose Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
his is 5 layers stacked, all iced in buttercream. Then I hand cut the petals of the roses and attached each one individually....gave it a rose look:)

Three Towers of Love Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

I used three different size pans, used butter cream cake mix 2 boxes, then used wedding cake icing, seven bundles of fake flowers, cut them short ...

Chocolate Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

Bottom layer is chocolate fudge cake with raspberry buttercream and a layer of dark chocolate ganache, covered in chocolate fondant.

Second tier ...

Basketweave Cake  Not rated yet

Directions for basket weave cake:

14in,12in,10in square cakes
gumpaste roses, leaves,mums, berries, hat flowers,and fondant apples
ivory 1/4 ...