Cakes By Color

By Instyle
Updated Mar 01, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
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Cakes By Color

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Cakegirls

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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.

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Play up a soft green cake with gorgeous cascading blooms.

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Lovin Sullivan Cakes

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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.

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Sedona Cake Couture

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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.

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Sedona Cake Couture

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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.

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Colette's Cakes for Betsey Johnson

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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.

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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.

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Lovin Sullivan Cakes

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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Bacara Resort & Spa

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

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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

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Hansen's Cakes

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

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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Alternating shapes and patterns create a visually interesting effect.

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes for Catherine Malandrino

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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.

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Petal Crafts

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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.

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Sedona Cake Couture

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

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Sedona Cake Couture

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

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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.

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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.

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Polly's Cakes

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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.

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Wedding Cakes by Jim Smeal

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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.

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Take the Cake

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Four round tiers covered in white chocolate and chocolate fondant withhandpainted fondant overlays.

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Cakework

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

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Cakegirls

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"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.

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Lovin Sullivan Cakes

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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.

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Sedona Cake Couture

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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!

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Nancy Kay's Confections

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

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Cakes by Linda

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

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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes

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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.

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Love Street Cakes

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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.

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