Modern Wedding Cakes

July 27, 2011
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Searching for a modern design for your wedding cake? Look no further. We've pulled together some of the most contemporary and chic cakes.

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Going with a modern theme is guaranteed to make your wedding day look sleek and sophisticated, and a modern cake will help you achieve that look. From geometric designs and edible metallic foil, to glossy white fondant and pops of color, get inspired by these modern cake ideas.

Geometric Detailed Cake 

Amy Beck Cake Design created this fun, four-tier confection and decorated it with colorful hexagons and criss-crosses in keeping with the couple's geometric theme. Each tier boasted a different flavor: red velvet, passion fruit with passion fruit filling, chocolate ganache with strawberry and vanilla filling, and lemon cake with raspberry filling.

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Small Silver Cake

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Martine Pasties created this two-tier vanilla and almond cake, featuring a bottom tier covered in edible silver leaf and adorned with a sugar magnolia.

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Modern White Cakes

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Exquisite Desserts created two cakes for this couple's California wedding: a buttercream-covered chiffon cake with mango mousse and a carrot and red velvet cake, the couple's runner up option from their cake tasting.

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Chocolate Cube Cake

This large chocolate cube cake made an unforgettable statement at this South Carolina wedding. 

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Double Chocolate Cakes

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These chocolate buttercream-covered cakes from Sylvia Weinstock featured two different flavors to reflect the personalities of each of the grooms: one with chocolate on the inside and the other with peanut butter. 

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Petal-Detailed Cake

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Each of the tiers on this sleek confection from Sweet on Cake had a different flavor: strawberries and cream with lemon curd, caramel-toffee fudge, and red velvet.

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Golden Cake

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This fully-gilded two-tier cake from Public NYC had a decadent dulce de leche filling.

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Ruffled Cake

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Nine Cakes created this black and white confection using ruffled fondant and layers of orange blossom cake with passion-fruit curd and vanilla buttercream.

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Black and White Cake

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In keeping with the black and white color scheme for their wedding, this couple chose a four-tier cake with black striped details from Wow Factor Cakes. Inside the cake were decadent layers of chocolate cake with chocolate mousse and white cake with raspberry filling and white chocolate mousse.

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Buckwheat Cake

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This couple cut into a small buckwheat cake with pickled blueberry and lemon cream from Reynard at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, New York.

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Trio of White Cakes

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For their cool city wedding, this couple brought in three different cakes from Fluffy Thoughts, each with their own unique white on white buttercream frosted pattern, and each topped with a different cake topper from Sweet and Saucy Supply. Two of the confections were white cake with passionfruit curd and blackberry meringue buttercream, and the third was an almond cake with salted caramel filling.

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Small Simple Cake

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This couple cut into a simple vanilla cake with chocolate chip cannoli filling from Goddess and Grocer for their cocktail-style reception.

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Sleek and Small Cake

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Small Wedding Cakes With a Big Presence

This lemon cake with lemon ganache and wild strawberries from Rose Cakes had a simple adornment of two fondant cypress trees, as a nod to their Italian wedding location, and to represent the two grooms.

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Faux Bois Fondant Cake

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This a four-tier confection from Ashley Perkins of Tier Luxury Cakes featured a faux bois-printed fondant and a gold monogram. It was filled with a delicious orange honey buttercream.

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Momofuku Cake

This couple chose a cake from the favorite NYC bakery, Momofuku Milkbar. Each tier was a different flavor, and the bride and groom chose to save the strawberry-lemon top tier.

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Twin Skull Cakes

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BCake NY made these utterly cool bride and groom skull cakes in the style of Dia de los Muertos figurines. The bride skull was dark chocolate with chocolate mousse and ganache filling, with a floral sugar veil topper, and the groom skull was infused with white tequila and lime and topped with tequila buttercream and a top hat.

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LOVE Cake

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The vanilla, three-tier cake, topped with a miniature "Love" by artist Robert Indiana from Blue Butterfly Design, was cut using the same knife that the bride's parents used at their own wedding.

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Paper Flower Cake

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We love the sleek simplicity of this ginger-lime cake topped with paper flowers from Nine Cakes. 

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Pop of Color Cake

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This bright and fun confection from Hey There, Cupcake! featured wafer-paper flowers and sugared fondant. 

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Watercolor Cake

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Hey There, Cupcake! created this two-tier lemon cake with blueberry curd filling, pretty blue watercolor-esque design, and paper flowers. 

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Candy Covered Cake

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This petite hexagon-shaped chocolate cake from Sweet and Saucy Shop was topped with paper gems, frosted in vanilla buttercream, and covered in crushed rock candy.

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Sleek Modern Cake

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Kendall's Cakes created this elegantly simple four-tiered coconut and carat cake. We love the sleek gold and copper rings decorating the bottom of each tier.

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Colorful Modern Cake

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In keeping with their fall theme, this couple had Sweet Fix create a pumpkin spice cake with a cinnamon-brown-sugar buttercream frosting, with a colorful diamond design hand-painted onto the outer fondant layer. 

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White and Gold Cake

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Coco and Fig created this three-tier, stawberry and Champagne-flavored confection featuring a sleek gold middle tier between two white buttercream-frosted tiers. 

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Fox-Topped Cake

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This lemon-scented cake with a tri-berry compote and vanilla buttercream frosting from A Simple Cake was decorated with blue ombré polka dots and a fox bride and groom cake topper from Bunny with a Toolbelt to keep with the wedding's fox theme. 

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Piped Buttercream Wedding Cake

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The Whole Cake created this geometric almond cake, finished off with fondant white and gold hexagons. 

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Geometric Motif Cake

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This three-tier strawberry shortcake confection from Charm City Cakes was decorated with a modern, geometric trellis motif for a sleek finish.

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Red Dragon Cake

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Cake Studio of Ocean City created this bold red, four-tier chocolate tiramisu and green tea cake. The geometric shape and gold animal detailing give the cake a modern edge, plus the dragon and phoenix have extra meaning as they represent man and woman in Chinese culture. 

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Black and White Modern Cake

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This three-tier cake from Hey There Cupcake was painted with black stripes on the bottom tier, splattered dots on the middle, and an "XO" on the top, flanked on one side by bright florals. 

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