Easy Wedding Cakes To MakeDiy Wedding DessertFun Wedding CakeConnie'S WeddingHomemade Wedding CakeWedding GoalsWedding Cake RecipesWinter WeddingWedding StuffForwardWho says you can't make a homemade Wedding Cake? With our step-by-step guide you'll save money and spoil your guests with a delicious cake. These fabulous finishing touches, which you, a friend, or a baker can create following these how-tos, will help you make even the most basic confection wedding-worthy. There's a secret to this blossom-draped dessert: The big-impact blooms are made of tissue paper (by Livia Cetti). And while this cake is high on style, it's low on effort. Just insert the wire stem of each lifelike bud into the cake. Underneath this tropical exterior, anything goes. Our food editor's suggestion: "Something exotic, like coconut with passion fruit filling." How to Make Crepe-Paper Flowers Glitter Dust Wedding Cakes Order mini buttercream cakes—one for every two guests. Then, create the geometric patterns by sifting colored sugar (try Wilton bright shimmer dust) mixed with confectioners' sugar over each.

Delight guests with a different flavor for every design. Make These Glitter Dust Wedding Cakes Chocolate Leaf Wedding Cake Thanks to a trailing Grecian-style vine, this cake has "goddess" written all over it. The white chocolate foliage, molded from fresh mint, looks delicate and tastes delicious. For the cake inside, rich chocolate layered with mint buttercream would be complementary yet unexpected. Serve with vanilla ice cream—because everything is better à la mode.decorating ideas for master bedroom and bathroom Make This Chocolate Leaf Wedding Cakehome decor inspiration 2014 Cheery poppies don't have to be in season for you to make this pretty, fondant-covered cake. decorating ideas for master bedroom and bathroom

Instead, fashion crepe-paper ones yourself, or look for similar ones at a crafts stores. Either way you slice it, you've got a cake with flower power that lasts all day. Make This Crepe-Paper Poppies Cake This happy rose confection may look couture, but just about anyone is capable of re-creating it. Start with a plain fondant cake from a bakery. Next, print out our template of abstract roses, place parchment paper over it, and trace with a piping bag of royal icing. Once dry, peel the paper from the piped roses, and adhere the designs to the cake using gum paste that's been mixed with hot water. White-Chocolate Panel Wedding Cake Architectural yet intimate, our white-chocolate panel cake requires neither culinary talents nor design skills (other than the ones you learned in preschool). Just order a buttercream cake from a local bakery and a pack of chocolate panels from chocolatier Christopher Norman. The rest is a cakewalk: Adhere panels of varying heights onto the tiers, and fill the ledges with golden raspberries or another fruit.

Make This White-Chocolate Panel Wedding Cake Floral Bouquet-Topped Wedding Cake Not to be overly dramatic, but stop the presses! We've discovered the one cake-decorating tool that will change your life (or at least your sweets table). The aptly named CakeVase is a clear plastic disk with divots for holding flower stems. The disk keeps the flowers crisp and vibrant for hours—and the cake pristine because the décor and the dessert never touch each other. Make This Floral Bouquet-Topped Wedding Cake As fun to make as it is to eat, our sparkling marmalade-candy cake takes a little muscle—and that's about it. Buy your favorite hard candies (we used La Vie de La Vosgienne), place them in a large resealable plastic bag, get a rolling pin, and have a blast pounding away your prewedding jitters. Then press the glittering crushed pieces to the sides of a buttercream cake. Make This Crushed-Candy Wedding Cake Give your cake a splash of whimsy. Order up a fondant cake, plus a bucket of fondant, from a bakery.

Add food coloring to the fondant to get the right hues, and roll out into a thin sheet. Cut with various teardrop-shaped cookie cutters, let dry, and attach to the front of the cake with gum paste mixed with hot water. Make This Teardrop Wedding Cake Download our PDF files for this ranunculus cake swag, and print clip art onto 8 1/2-by-11-inch cover-weight paper (send the monogram wreath to a calligrapher to monogram, or initial it yourself). Make This Swag Wedding Cake Digitally Printed Floral Cake Instead of having flowers piped on your cake, have them printed! In fact, any pattern or image can be reproduced on edible paper with food-safe dye. Then, have your baker press the sheets around the sides or top of a buttercream frosted pastry just before serving, for a dessert that's as pretty as, well, a picture!We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /food/Simple-Wedding-Cakes-30158402 on this server. An invalid request was received from your browser.

This may be caused by a malfunctioning proxy server or browser privacy software. Your technical support key is: 36b3-d6e3-1756-6707 You can use this key to fix this problem yourself. If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.Creative new designs for dessert, from sweet and simple to bold and bright.Turn Down For What Cake Topper via Host & Toast Studio A few years ago, I got really into making fancy cakes. Or at least, I got really into the idea of making fancy cakes. I had a cousin who was sidelining as a semi-pro baker, and I’d watched her work just enough to convince myself I could totally do it. I even made some for an event that APW hosted. However, after a few epic fails in the kitchen that involved me sobbing into a pile of confectioners’ sugar at three o’clock in the morning, I learned something important: making cakes look pretty versus making cakes tasty and structurally sound (and also pretty) are two totally different beasts.

Also I’m officially not allowed to attempt anything more ambitious than Betty Crocker anymore (it’s for my own good). If you’re DIYing your wedding cake to save money, the best advice I can give you is to make sure that your plan is actually going to save you money. My cake efforts were ambitious, to say the least, and I’m pretty sure I spent more on supplies than I would have if I’d bought a modest yet pretty cake for whatever occasion I was baking for. But, you know, bragging rights. If you just want to save a few dollars and have a pretty wedding cake, then here’s my advice: buy or make or ask a friend to make an inexpensive (but tasty) small cake, and then decorate the heck out of it. (Assuming you want a wedding cake to begin with. Obviously it is not required.) If you do a small cake for a symbolic cutting, then you can feed your guests tasty sheet cake and no one will be any the wiser. So with that, here are fifteen wedding cake ideas that give small cakes a big dose of pretty:

1. One of the easiest ways to take a simple cake from boring to wedding is with edible flowers. You can buy them fresh or dried. (Styled by Healthfully Ever After; photo by Bit of Ivory Photography via Swooned Magazine.) 2. Or if you’re not planning on serving your cake (that’s what sheet cake is for, right?) you can always ask whoever is helping with your flowers (which could be… yourself) to make a little something extra just for the top, like the above. (Cake by Earth and Sugar, photo by Jessica Lorren via Snippet and Ink.) 3. Or to hell with flowers. Use herbs to decorate the sides of your cake. (Photo by Amanda Berens via Toertchenzeit.) 4. Sometimes less is more. There’s a great tutorial for a DIY naked cake made from grocery store cakes right here and you can get a flat icing spatula for less than $10 right here. (Photo and cake recipe via Tú Eres El Chef.) 5. I never liked any of the beach-themed wedding ideas we found when planning our beach wedding, but I would make an exception for this.

Mussels are the flowers of the sea, no? (Styling by Joy Thigpen; photo by Erich McVey via OnceWed.) 6. Flowers aren’t your only edible decor options. Add dried or candied fruit for a colorful cake topper (which you can make or buy). Also, it goes without saying that white cakes are not the only cakes deserving of the wedding cake title. Chocolate cake is delicious. (Cake by Heritage Organic Cakes; photo by Michelle Able Photography via The School of Styling.) 7. Or whole fruit. Which you can then eat. (Cake by Sweet Haus; photo by Rachel May via 100 Layer Cake.) 8. Or combine fruit and flowers. (Cake by Kuchen mit Stil; photo by Thomas Steibl via Wedding Chicks.) 9. P.S. Florals and fruits can mean big ass coconuts and tropical flowers. (Cake by Heritage Organic Cakes; florals by Forêt Design Studio; photo by Ruth Eileen Photography via The School Of Styling.) 10. Who said edible cake decor has to exist in nature? Arrange other confections artfully on top of your cake to make it double the dessert.

You can even buy ready-made heart-shaped macarons right here, and as you can see here, regular macarons would also work just fine. (Photo and macaron cake recipe via Raspberri Cupcakes.) 11. Or live out my childhood dreams and create an ombre effect using rock candy. You can buy rock candy at most candy stores and online, or make it yourself using this recipe. (Cake by Sweet and Saucy Shop; photo by Erin Hearts Court via 100 Layercakelet.) 12. You can give a short cake some extra height with a tall cake topper, like this geometric design from Host & Toast Studio. (Geometric cake topper via Host & Toast Studio; also available in teal, pink, gold, and silver.) 13. Or if you prefer something a little more nature inspired, Etsy is filled with cool customizable twig cake toppers, or you can make the featured above using these instructions. (Styling by Megan Forbes; photo by Christina Hussey via Gold Mine.) 14. Make a statement with tiny Mylar balloons. These look surprisingly easy to make, and the DIY is right here.