Cakes By Color

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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Cakegirls

Play up a soft green cake with gorgeous cascading blooms.

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Ron Ben-Israel

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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LovinSullivanCakes

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

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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Sedona Cake Couture

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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Colette's Cakes

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

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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LovinSullivanCakes

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

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Maples Wedding Cakes

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

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

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Bacara Resort and Spa

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

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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Hansen's Cakes

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

Alternating shapes and patterns create a visually interesting effect.

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Ron Ben-Israel

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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Ron Ben-Israel

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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Petal Crafts

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

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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Sedona Cake Couture

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

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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Polly's Cakes.

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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Jim Smeal

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

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Take the Cake

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

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Cakework

"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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Cakegirls

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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LovinSullivanCakes

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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Sedona Cake Couture

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

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Nancy Kay's Confections

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

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Cake by Linda

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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Ron Ben-Israel

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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Love Street Cakes

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).

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Ron Ben-Israel

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

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Cake Divas

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

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Ron Ben-Israel

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.

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Perfect Endings

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

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Sedona Cake Couture

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

I Dream of Cake.

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.

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Ron Ben-Israel

This red velvet cake with cheesecake and toasted pecan filling gets a touch of glam with white fondant and gumpaste poppies.

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Petal Crafts

Bridal gowns-especially ornately adorned ones-provide an elegant source for lacy layers of icing. To echo the pastel underlay of this Reem Acra stunner, Sullivan covered a four-tier cake in pale blue fondant. White royal icing and fondant mimic the embroidery, while silver dragees replicate the beads.

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LovinSullivanCakes

Pink and purple fondant with green gumpaste vines, white clematis and white scrolls of royal icing add to the character of this unusually stacked confection of chocolate chip pound cake and espresso buttercream filling.

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Petal Crafts

Sisters Brenda and Mary Maher, aka the Cakegirls, envisioned a whimsical woodland when they designed this three-tier creation with lavender rolled-fondant icing and delicate mushrooms and cattails made from sugar paste. A buck and doe, hand cut from rolled sugar paste, take the place of a traditional bride-and-groom topper.

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Cakegirls

Inspired by Wedgewood china, this pale blue cake is decorated with shimmery white fondant draping and sugar plumeria and roses. Inside is the darkest, richest chocolate cake with a truffel filling.

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Sedona Cake Couture

Black gumpaste roses and a black fondant bow adorn this almond pound cake with white chocolate mousse and fresh berries filling.

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Petal Crafts

Almond-infused tiers, featuring layers of ganache and apricot preserves, are shaped like a Victorian wire basket filled with flowers, including daffodils, hyacinth and lily of the valley. The design is meant to evoke an English country garden, says Ben-Israel.

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Ron Ben-Israel

Even the paper with which you choose to wrap your wedding favors-like this hand-silk-screened style by Superdeluxe-can be your muse. Here, Sullivan used thin rolls of white fondant to re-create the calligraphy-like design on a background of aqua fondant. The beaded border at the base of each tier is piped royal icing.

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LovinSullivanCakes

Powder blue fondant, a gumpaste casa blanca lily and fondant skirting cover the layers of this almond Joconde cake with chocolate hazelnut ganache filling.

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Petal Crafts