Feast your eyes on magnificent wedding cakes from the Spring/Summer 2012 editions. Whether you’re looking for a traditional and simple or modern masterpiece, your cake designer, along with your caterer will be eager to create a cake that reflects your personality, overall theme, or color scheme. Visit http://www.ContemporaryBride.com for 25 wedding cake inspirations for your wedding day!
Designed by A Little Cake, this square four-tiered wedding cake was decorated in a black damask pattern, finished with a light pearl dusting, and topped with a black fondant bow. For more information visit http://www.ALittleCake.com.
Designed by Palermo’s Custom Cakes and Bakery, this four-tiered quilted fondant wedding cake is accented with pin dots, a deep chocolate colored bow, and just a touch of sparkle with simple cake jewelry. For more information visit http://www.PalermoBakery.com.
Created by A Little Cake, this four-tiered wedding cake features a chocolate brown lace design and sugar peony flowers. Its flavor is red velvet cake with cream cheese filling and iced with buttercream. Visit http://www.ALittleCake.com for more information.
This elegant and colorful square wedding cake was created with modern separated floating tiers by Palermo’s Custom Cakes and Bakery. Iced in an ivory rolled fondant with brown icing branch work, this three-tiered fondant wedding cake is adorned with colorful fondant leaves and bright gum paste floral work. These colors are perfect for a fall wedding but can be customized for any time of the year with the flowers and color of your choice! For more information visit http://www.PalermoBakery.com.
An elegant five-tiered wedding cake designed by Palermo’s Custom Cakes and Bakery with a modern twist of round and square tiers. This ivory buttercream iced wedding cake is bedazzled with crystal cake jewelry trim and crystal cake pins. An alternating quilting design is incorporated between swirls and a jeweled topper. The center tier is adorned with a delicate pearlized fondant wrap and finished with a crystal broach. All five tiers are then given a pearl applique to complete this modern yet elegant design. for more information visit http://www.PalermoBakery.com.
With the winter weather upon us, embrace the season and celebrate with a winter themed cake. Fondant snowflakes, crystal sugar icing, snowmen and sparkles can be all tied together for a gorgeous masterpiece. Take these designs as an inspiration and customize it to fit your celebration and theme. For more information or to schedule an appointment, visit PalermoBakery.com.
Simple 3-tiered cake embellished with fondant snowflakes topped with a snowgroom and snowbride.
5-tiered cake with a stunning silver design embellished with two fondant bows, brooches, and white roses.
4-tiered square cake decorated with blue ribbon and accented with silver and white snowflake decorations.
4-tiered square wedding cake adorned with black ribbon and embellished with sparkly snowflake cake jewelry.
Designed by Carlo’s Bakery, Patrice and Elijah’s wedding cake was a three tiered design with rhinestone and orchid embellishments, as well as a beautiful crystal single monogram cake topper. Its flavors consisted of black and white vanilla fudge, red velvet with cream cheese, and carrot cake with cream cheese filling. You can read Patrice and Elijiah’s wedding story in the Fall/Winter 2011 edition of Contemporary Bride Magazine.
Photography by Ahmet Ze / Reception Location: Liberty House
Along with your cake designer, create a design that coordinates with your wedding theme and/or color scheme to tie the celebration all together. You want your guests to be in awe of the design that has them guessing the flavor inside. Adorning the wedding cake with crystal embellishments, satin ribbons, bows, vintage brooches, and draping are always a popular design for those brides who want an elegant and traditional design with a modern twist.
Palermo’s Bakery
Pink Cake Box
The Cake Parlour
Designed by a cake dream, this gorgeous wedding cake is a perfect design for any season. It features “handmade sugar flowers, sugar pearls, yellow sugar diamonds, and sugar cameos that adorn this hexagon wedding cake. As for the flavor; carrot cake with a sinful cream cheese filling and covered in buttercream fondant.”- Sabrina Kuratana of a cake dream.
Photography by Dana Maurer
