Design your own wedding cake
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Ohh, a wedding cake — hello, future cake designer, you’ve come to the sweetest corner of the internet! Design Your Wedding Cake is all about getting the cake you really want: choosing tiers, shapes, frosting and flavors, then walking into a bakery knowing exactly what to ask for. Our step-by-step guides start with the look you love and end with a design your baker can price, and a pretty wedding cake topper can finish the whole thing off.
Not sure where to start? Our free wedding tools do the maths for you: a wedding drink calculator, a cake size calculator, a guest count estimator, a budget planner, a day-of timeline builder, a hashtag generator and a confetti calculator. Each one gives you an answer in seconds, with no sign-up.
Cost and size come first for most couples, so we explain how bakers charge per slice, how many tiers your guest list needs, and how far ahead to book. A wedding cake stand and cake knife set can also make a simple cake look like a showpiece.
Everyone deserves a slice they can eat, so we cover gluten-free and vegan cakes, small weddings and elopements, and keeping buttercream happy at a hot outdoor reception. If you love baking, we’ll also show what it really takes to make your own with a good set of round cake pans. Honestly, the cake might be the only wedding decision you get to eat.
Then come the sweet little traditions: when and how to cut the cake, saving the top tier for your first anniversary in a freezer-safe cake container, and dessert tables and cupcakes for couples who want something different.
For anyone dreaming of a showstopper, we also look at sugar flowers, hand painting, heirloom cake servers and full dessert tables — what goes into them and what to ask before you pay. Sugar flowers are a lovely place to start looking.
Kerry Woods writes every guide from bakers’ own price lists, serving charts and trusted sources, with no made-up reviews. See every guide, read more about Design Your Wedding Cake, or say hello. Now go dream up something gorgeous, and save me a corner piece!