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Non-Floral Wedding Cake Accents That Will Enhance the Style of Any Confection

lauren pardee associate digital editor martha stewart weddings
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There isn't any doubt about it: Floral accents are staples in wedding-cake design—and beautiful ones at that. But when it comes to cake accents, your options extend far beyond flowers. From tasty toppings like fruit or sugar crystals to non-edible additions like vines or ribbon, your choices are endless. So, why limit yourself to just blooms when deciding on the finishing touch for your confection?

When dreaming up the perfect cake accent, we suggest focusing on a motif that nods to your event's aesthetic. For a modern party, play up geometric patterns and neon hues with fun fondant. If your celebration is traditional, lend refined flair to your sweet treat with shiny gold leaf adornments. Even plain frosting can be manipulated to speak to a nautical soirée with a wave-inspired detail. Your wedding date can also influence your cake's design. The colors and flavors of a caramel drip can allude to your autumnal affair, while whimsical pastel papers can create a springy feel. Or, use dried oranges as decorations for your summer wedding cake, like Batter Up Cakery did here—for a winter fête, try topping your treat with red berries or pine sprigs.

If you're obsessed with your dessert's flavor, hint to it with a complementary decoration. Use halved figs to inform guests of your fruity filling or dust cocoa powder over your chocolate treat. Not convinced that petal-free confection adornments are for you? The non-floral cake accents ahead are sure to change your mind—and inspire your own creative cake topper or accent.

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Modern Classic

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Trending Now: Bas-Relief Wedding Cakes

Bookmark this Jasmine Rae Cakes creation if you want to integrate both classic and modern motifs onto your cake: The pros used raised fondant edges to frame a traditional leaf pattern, which was shaped in bas relief, on this contemporary cube dessert.

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Delicate Linens

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30 Ribbon Wedding Ideas for Every Type of Celebration

A Bakeshop used a pink ribbon to dress up this blush dessert. A fabric addition is a great way to connect your cake to your big-day table linens.

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Fig Filling

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30 Naked Cakes for Your Wedding

Recreate Paper Cake Events' fig-covered treat if you want to inform guests of your fruity filling before you cut into the confection.

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Modern Gold

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20 Pink Wedding Ideas That Pack a Punch

Shiny gold leaf adds a little glamour to even the simplest of buttercream-topped confections. We love how Bella Noel Bakery complemented the metallic accent with a matching cake stand for a cohesive look.

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Earthy Vine

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20 Beautiful Ways to Add a Pop of Green to Your Wedding

Wrap a leafy vine around your white dessert—Sainte G Cake Company baked this treat—to enhance your polished green-and-ivory color palette in an earthy way.

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Minimalistic Icing

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52 Small Wedding Cakes with a Big Presence

Reimagine Vintage Soul Cakes' dessert by placing white-and-tan icing scales over a single ivory tier for a confection that matches your minimalistic big-day design.

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Ivory Lace

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25 Over-the-Top Wedding Cakes We Can't Get Enough Of

Note how Butter Bali piped an intricate ivory lace pattern onto this white cake to texturize the confection in a monochromatic way.

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Snakeskin

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15 Ways to Use Animal Print Throughout Your Wedding

Drape faux snakeskin over your tiered confection to add edge to your dessert table's focal point, as Pretty Please Bakeshop did here.

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Ocean Waves

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20 Blue Wedding Color Palettes We Love

Recreate Alexandra's Custom Made Cakes' beachy treat by adorning your own with frosting brushstrokes that resemble ocean waves.

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Coral Sand

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Hey There, Cupcake! nodded to this beach wedding's locale by featuring a grainy pink triangle, which resembled the venue's colorful sand, on this cake. Do the same to lend oceanic flair to your own treat.

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Lemon Wedges

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42 Fruit Wedding Cakes That Are Full of Color (and Flavor!)

Speak to your destination celebration in Italy with a lemon-covered cake. This couple asked Kake by Darci to use citrus, the country's trademark fruit, as a dessert decoration.

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Fall Drip

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20 Orange Wedding Ideas for Couples Who Love Color

Decorate your white cake with a caramel drip; its color and flavor will nod to your fall big-day date. Van Hagen Cakes also topped this confection with dried pears, which matched the adornment's orange hue.

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Butterfly Figurines

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26 Single-Serving Wedding Cakes That Are Beyond Adorable

Use your cake to showcase your love for entomology by decorating it with 3D butterfly figurines. This whimsical treat was made by Fleur and Flour.

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Sugar Whips

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Cube-Shaped Wedding Cakes for Your Contemporary Dessert Table

Reference your modern wedding style by creating a confection out of square cake tiers topped with gold-flecked sugar whips, just as the Dulce Experience did here.

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Modern Circles

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A Trend We're Loving: Textured Wedding Cakes

Make like Twenty Six Divine and bring texture to an all-white cake with circular cut-outs. It's a surefire way to give your confection a modern look.

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Feminine Crystals

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66 Colorful Wedding Cakes

Complement your feminine confection with gold-and-pink sugar crystals, like Nine Cakes did here.

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Ballet Laces

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21 Ballet-Inspired Wedding Ideas That'll Keep Guests on Their Toes

Subtly celebrate your event's ballet theme by wrapping your cake—this one is by Elle's Belles—with blue fabric that resembles pointe shoe ribbons.

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Farm Produce

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20 Bold Ideas for a Red Wedding Color Palette

Speak to your event's farm locale by adorning your confection with in-season fruit. Ashley Cakes made this dessert with cherries.

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Royal Crown

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10 Royal Traditions to Steal for Your Own Wedding

Tying the knot at a castle wedding venue? Then a royal-inspired treat is a must-have for you. This dessert by Gateaux Bakery was finished off with a crown.

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Roman Numerals

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How to Choose the Right Wedding Date

Let W Washington D.C.'s unique confection topper inspire your own: The pros displayed the couple's wedding date in fondant roman numerals on each of the dessert's tiers.

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Whimsical Paper

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50 Beautiful Wedding Cakes That Are (Almost!) Too Pretty to Eat

Your adornments don't have to be edible. Lend whimsical flair to your cake by decorating it with folded and curled purple, cream, pink, and gray pieces of paper. Flour and Flourish made this treat.

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