Top Wedding Cake Trends 2024
Top Wedding Cake Trends 2024

Top Wedding Cake Trends 2024

‘That Takes the Cake!’

What’s the one thing that makes the most significant statement at your wedding outside of your outfit? Your cake, of course! This year’s wedding cake trends are all about being loud, expressive, and gorgeous. From dress-resembling desserts to two-toned tiers, here are the top wedding cake trends you need to know about in 2024.

Metallic Wedding Cakes

Metal is in this year for weddings. It’s in the invitations, the shoes, and even the cakes. Cake designers are going for glamorous, show-stopping golds and silvers in 2024. This trend is everywhere in multiple forms, from flat metallic tiers to metallic designs in bold colours.

The Abigail Bloom Cake Company Ophelia
The Abigail Bloom Cake Company Ophelia
Matalic Cakes by Scattercake
Scattercake
Panache Cake Design
Panache Cake Design

The Ophelia cake by The Abigail Bloom Cake Company takes this trend to a stunning extreme with three tiers of whole gold leaf. If you opt for a cake like this, remember to break it up with something, as Abigail Bloom does with the white sugar flowers. Without these flowers, the metallic texture would have nothing to stand out against.  Scattercake, on the other hand, uses minimal gold. This Queen of the Nile cake looks like a palace, with a mixture of golden dotting and ribbon. Panache Cake Design achieve metallic excellence with a flat, geometric design drawn onto a sleek black cake. This Art Deco-style effect is both understated and elegant.

Naked Wedding Cakes

Like the metallic cake trend, naked wedding cakes are bold and brazen. Unlike metallic cakes, these naked cakes achieve that by taking something away from the cake instead of adding something new. The “naked” part of the name comes from these cakes being uniced. The golden cake and soft filling inside are exposed, making your mouth water at the thought of biting in.

Elizabeth's Cake Emporium
Elizabeth’s Cake Emporium

Naked doesn’t need to mean completely bare.  As Elizabeth’s Cake Emporium shows us, a naked cake can come with a powdering of sugar or a light drizzle of icing. All that matters is that some of the cake underneath can be seen. As for decoration, try flowers on a summer cake and fruits on a winter cake.

Lace Wedding Cakes

If you’ve seen this year’s wedding shoe or bridal gown trends, you’ll know everyone’s mad for lace. Decorators are also bringing the trend to the cake market with intricately designed, lace-patterned tiers. If you’re all about consistency, you can create a design to replicate the lace pattern on your dress.

Sweet-Cheeks-Bakehouse
Lace Wedding Cakes
Sari Cakes
Sari Cakes

As you can see from the Lace Couture cake from The Enchanting Cake Company, this design works best with light, low-contrast colours. Try white lace on a pastel hue like a duck egg, magnolia, or lilac. The addition of a silver brooch on this cake is a perfect example of how the cake can be made to look like the outfit. The Ivory Shimmer and Lace cake from Sweet Cheeks Bakehouse uses minimal lace over a metallic background. This cake also resembles a dress, from neckline to bodice to skirt. If you like the lace effect but are looking for a bolder cake, check out Sari Cakes. Their henna-inspired designs are similar to the intricacy of lace, and the designs look great in bright, contrasting colours.

Ruffled Wedding Cakes

Lace isn’t the only fabric style remade in cake form this year. 2024 also shows the rise of ruffled wedding cakes, resembling the soft, flowing pleats of many bridal gowns. Ruffles make the cake look lighter than air – so light that you probably won’t feel guilty eating it! Ruffles can be incorporated into the cake in numerous ways: vertically, horizontally, in uniform lines, or haphazardly.

Cakes By Yevnig
Cakes By Yevnig
Etoile Bakery
Etoile Bakery

Unique Cakes by Yevnig’s portfolio has plenty of examples of this trend. The Champagne Birdcage cake features a mass of ruffles on the bottom tier, giving a Renaissance ball feel. The Madeline cake opts for an entire cake of layered ruffles in a style that is both put-together and wonderfully unkempt. Etoile Bakery exemplifies how this style can be made to resemble wedding dresses with the dense floral ruffles on their Ruffle Wedding Dress Cake.

Bouquet Wedding Cakes

Flowers have always been a big player in the wedding cake game, whether fresh or made from sugar. 2016 is no exception. This year’s flowers are displayed in a bouquet style, clustered together for maximum impact. Colourful bouquets add the perfect “pop” to classic white and ivory cakes, while white flower clusters can perfectly break up a bright-coloured cake.

Pretty Gorgeous Cake Company
Pretty Gorgeous Cake Company
Bellissimo Cakes
Bellissimo Cakes

Look at the Zara cake by Pretty Gorgeous Cake Company for a well-done example of this trend. The full, voluminous circles of flowers turn an ordinary white cake into something beautiful. The Fiorella cake from Bellissimo Cakes dresses up a white base similarly, using around half a dozen scattered bunches of flowers.

Rosette Wedding Cakes

The rosette wedding cake trend also capitalises on everyone’s love of flowers. However, rosette cakes feature sugar roses all over instead of carefully placed bunches. The result is a striking, elegant effect that looks too good to eat. Well, almost!

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Rosette Wedding Cakes

Le Papillon Patisserie’s White Chocolate Cherubim cake is covered in white chocolate rosettes and an antique gold dusting. It looks closer to an actual bouquet than a dessert. The floral pyramid cake from Elizabeth’s Cake Emporium adds butterflies to the mix. This adds an extra dimension to what would ordinarily be a repetitive design. Notice how the rosettes cover the whole cake rather than just one tier. If you only have rosettes on one cake level, avoiding overshadowing the rest of the tiers can be challenging.

Ombré Wedding Cakes

Ombré, ombré, ombré. It’s been everywhere in hair and fashion over the last few years, from dip-dyed locks to multi-toned stockings. Now, it’s finally coming to the wedding cake market. There’s something mind-blowing about ombré that will leave your guests wondering how on earth the cake designer achieved such an effect. You can use multiple shades of 1 colour or blend multiple different colours into each other.

Rosalind Miller
Rosalind Miller Cakes
Ombre-Wedding-Cakes
Ombre Wedding Cakes

The most obvious choice here is a cake that is ombré from top to bottom, but that’s not the only way to interpret this trend. Take the Ombré Rose cake by Rosalind Miller Wedding Cakes, for example. She combines this trend with the rosette trend to create a cake that’s pretty enough for a princess. Rosalind Miller shows us that ombré is powerful enough to make even a 1-tier cake eye-catching. Another unexpected way to incorporate ombré is in specific elements of the cake. Take Anna Cake Couture‘s ombré flower, which spreads from a deep pink core to light pink outer petals. Ombré can also be achieved through blocks of colour rather than a blended, seamless effect. The Peacock Panache cake by Lindy’s Cakes uses colour-blocked ombré blue to make its feather design stand out.

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