Cakes By Color

By InStyle.com
Mar 01, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
Kaye Hartman
Cakes By Color
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Cakegirls

Ngoc Minh Ngo
With this four-tier hexagonal confection, the Mahers conjure up the shimmery scales of sea creatures; roughly 500 fondant circles-in varying hues of pale green-are adhered to the cake with royal icing. Occasional coppery-edged rings recall the brilliant flash of fish as they swim.

Cake by Cakegirls
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Play up a soft green cake with gorgeous cascading blooms.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Lovin Sullivan Cakes

Kirsten Strecker
For something a bit more unexpected, let the chairs you'll use at your ceremony or reception serve as the basis for your cake. The grid pattern of this caning (on a folding chair from Ballard Designs) makes a bold, graphic statement when enlarged onto three tiers. Sullivan laid strips of white fondant atop a green fondant to achieve the crisscross effect.

Cake by LovinSullivanCakes
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Sedona Cake Couture

Sedona Cake Couture
One of the hottest (and brightest) new color combos, this hot pink, orange and lime green confection (with mango passionfruit cake inside) completely matched the centerpieces and linens at this outdoor wedding by the creek at L'Auberge de Sedona.

Cake by Sedona Cake Couture

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Sedona Cake Couture

Sedona Cake Couture
Deep green fondant was the perfect background for this cake's bright color palette, which featured the bride's favorite flower, peonies, and sugar pomegranates.

Cake by Sedona Cake Couture

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Colette's Cakes for Betsey Johnson

Wendell T. Webber
The prolific designer's Spring 2009 collection was a visual jamboree of pirate-inspired looks, peasant dresses, and rock and roll garb-but her cake focuses on ruffles. "I came out at the end of my spring 2009 show wearing three huge square-dance petticoats," Johnson says.

Cake by Colette's Cakes
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Clean and classic, a simple white wedding cake never goes out of style.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Lovin Sullivan Cakes

Kirsten Strecker
Small blooms such as stephanotis, the only flower used in this bouquet by New York City florist Chestnuts in the Tuileries, look like a lush field of blossoms when repeated all over a wedding cake. For this creation, made of two equal-size tiers topped by a smaller one, Kate Sullivan, of New York's Lovin Sullivan Cakes, used a base of white fondant. She attached nearly 600 handmade sugar-paste flowers using royal icing.

Cake by LovinSullivanCakes

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Maples Wedding Cakes

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Five round tiers covered in buttercream and white chocolate fondant are embellished by gumpaste ranunculus, stephanotis, and vine .

Cake by Maples Wedding Cakes
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Your gown and your veil aren't the only wedding-day details that deserve a special trim.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Bacara Resort & Spa

John Solano
Nancy O'Dell & Keith Zubchevich kept things simple with a three-tier cake covered in white fondant.

Cake by Bacara Resort and Spa

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Elegant detailing and flowers balance this cake's fun shape.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Hansen's Cakes

Tyler Boye
Banks went with Hansen's Cakes to create the three-tier chocolate-and-vanilla cake garnished with fresh orchids for her big day.

Cake by Hansen's Cakes

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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A subtle silver design gives this classic confection a touch of elegance.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Vary the positioning of each layer for subtle, standout style.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Alternating shapes and patterns create a visually interesting effect.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes for Catherine Malandrino

Wendell T. Webber
The French-American designer's vision for the perfect wedding cake consists of a nude underlay topped with three intricate lace patterns. "The dark chocolate glaze looks like fine lingerie," Malandrino says.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Petal Crafts

Kaye Hartman
This chocolate black out cake with cookies and cream filling is decorated with chocolate fondant, pink, purple and green fondant ribbons and a single gumpaste Turkish tulip and leaves.

Cake by Petal Crafts
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Sedona Cake Couture

Sedona Bride Photography
Perfect for chocolate lovers-milk chocolate fondant accented with dark choclate vines, leaves and a monogram cover this rich dark chocolate espresso cake.

Cake by Sedona Cake Couture

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Sedona Cake Couture

Sedona Bride Photography
Fondant draping adorned with seasonal sugar flowers and fruits dress this square flourless chocolate and vanilla cheesecake with ganache and fresh raspberries.

Cake by Sedona Cake Couture

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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A new wedding classic, brown and blue make for a dazzling color combo.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Tall brown tiers are perfectly accented by festive red, yellow and green flowers.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Polly's Cakes

Polly's Cakes
For an earthy confection, four round tiers were topped with marzipan mushrooms and fondant ferns. A light dusting of cocoa, or faux-dirt, was the perfect finishing touch.

Cake by Polly's Cakes.

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Wedding Cakes by Jim Smeal

Monica Buck
A moist sour-cream chocolate cake is brushed with orange-flavored liqueur and layered with ganache and a slightly chunky, bittersweet orange marmalade. A final glaze of shiny ganache is poured on top. "A chocolate cake is a nice break from tradition," says baker Jim Smeal.

Cake by Jim Smeal
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Take the Cake

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Four round tiers covered in white chocolate and chocolate fondant with handpainted fondant overlays.

Cake by Take the Cake

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Cakework

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Three round tiers covered in white chocolate wrap with handmade marizpan fruits, white chocolate blossoms and leaves and dark chocolate branches.

Cake by Cakework

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Cakegirls

Ngoc Minh Ngo
"We wanted to bring out the deeper colors of the ocean," says Mary of the rusty red coral set dramatically against this cake's stark white exterior. She and Brenda handcrafted branches from gum paste, coated them in tiny candies, and then punctured each tier with minute holes for added texture.

Cake by Cakegirls
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Lovin Sullivan Cakes

Kirsten Strecker
Whether the plates you registered for have a classic border or a more modern, organic feel-like this whimsical set by Tord Boontje-their design can translate beautifully onto a round tiered cake. In this case, N.Y.C. baker Kate Sullivan hand-painted Boontje's motif on fondant using a mix of lemon extract and powdered red food coloring. She made the animals' eyes and the blossoms' centers with dots of royal icing.

Cake by LovinSullivanCakes

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Sedona Cake Couture

Sedona Bride Photography
The bridesmaids wore red and the bride wore a crown, so this dramatic cake was the perfect combination for the bold wedding. Of course, inside was red velvet cake!

Cake by Sedona Cake Couture

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Nancy Kay's Confections

Stacey Kane
Nancy Kay's Confections of Sherman Oaks, CA, made the five-tier cake for Routh's Santa Barbara nuptials.

Cake by Nancy Kay's Confections
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Cakes by Linda

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Three round tiers covered in fondant with satin ribbon, sugar paste leaves and gumpaste acorns and berries.

Cake by Cake by Linda

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

Ngoc Minh Ngo
This striking cake resembles a huge, single rose made up of 150 individual petals. It took four people two days to hand-make and -paint each piece of it, a white Meyer lemon confection complemented by papaya and blood-orange buttercream filling.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Love Street Cakes

Lisa Shin
Personalize it by incorporating your heritage, a favorite vacation spot or your destination-wedding location. Popular Indian spices inspired this cardamom cake with saffron butter-cream, says Archana Rao, owner of Love Street Cakes.

Cake by Love Street Cakes
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

Ngoc Minh Ngo
For this beauty—vanilla and chocolate cakes separated by roasted-pineapple buttercream and chopped pistachios—celebrity cake-maker Ron Ben-Israel, who works in N.Y.C., used still lifes by Dutch and Flemish old masters as inspiration (hence the cascade of tulips adorning the pale peach-pink quilted icing).

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Cake Divas

Amy & Stuart
Mowry showcased a stunning four-tier vanilla and red velvet confection decorated with pink roses by Cake Divas at her California celebration.

Cake by Cake Divas

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Play up pretty pink tiers with bunches of flowers and stunning silver detailing.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Perfect Endings

Weddings Valentine Style
After a decade of planning weddings for Toni Braxton, Kelis and others, Diann Valentine has put together Weddings Valentine Style to show how you can make your wedding reflect your personal style. For clients' cakes, like this one, Valentine often turns to Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings in Napa, Calif.

Cake by Perfect Endings

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Sedona Cake Couture

Sedona Bride Photography
This deep cherise colored cake was designed to matched the bridesmaid's dresses, while the sugar flowers, leaves and berries reflected the centerpieces.

Cake by Sedona Cake Couture

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I Dream of Cake

Angie Silvy
The intricately patterned blue-tinted icing is as delicate as the this cake's ornately scalloped walls.

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

Ngoc Minh Ngo
Clusters of large sugar peonies in burgundy, claret, coral and deep pink top the fondant icing of this dark-chocolate cake; it's filled with dulce de leche and raspberry buttercream. "I wanted to capture the lusciousness of the flowers in full bloom," says Ben-Israel.

Cake by Ron Ben-Israel

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Petal Crafts