Visit Martha Stewart Weddings Weddings Wedding Ceremony & Reception Wedding Reception Ideas Wedding Cakes & Toppers 41 Wedding Cakes With Fruit That Are Full of Color and Flavor By Martha Stewart Martha Stewart Website Martha Stewart is a true multi-hyphenate who has brought her knowledge of all things homekeeping to the masses via her television shows, magazines, and social media for generations. Based in Katonah, New York, where she helms her 156-acre Bedford Farm, Martha, the author of 99 books, an Emmy award winner, and America's first self-made female billionaire, founded Martha Stewart Living in 1990 and Martha Stewart Weddings in 1995. Editorial Guidelines Updated on March 10, 2023 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Patrick Moyer We've all seen flowers, fondant, and piping—but what other decorative additions does the wedding cake world offer? Fruit can be an amazing choice to top your confection, and offer a more delicious take on the traditional English fruitcake. Both as accents and the main event, fruits can bring texture, color, and zest to your tiers, and they offer the chance to step away from more typical floral designs. On the other hand, fruits pair wonderfully with petals and blooms, and their wide range of colors and shapes lend themselves to a large spread of themes and cake structures. Keep things simple with sprinklings of berries, or get glitzy with painted, shimmering pears or apples. Between bananas and strawberries or figs and pineapples, the following cakes featuring fresh and faux produce will inspire a fruit-filled dessert table vision. 01 of 41 Gilded Fruit Wedding Cake Heather Waraksa Flecks of gold sent the fruit cake topper on this vanilla cake into truly luxe territory. 02 of 41 Wedding Cake Overflowing with Fruit Lauren Fair Photography This couple's Italian wedding featured a beautiful millefoglie, which spilled over with an abundance of gorgeous fruit. 03 of 41 Naked Blackberry Wedding Cake Teneil Kable Cocoa & Fig decked out this (gluten-free!) almond cake with fresh groupings of blackberries. Naked Cakes for Your Wedding 04 of 41 Strawberry Wedding Pound Cake Nancy Neil Here, an almond-cornmeal TSP pound cake was accented with mascarpone cream and strawberries. 05 of 41 Wedding Carrot Cake with Figs This couple chose a short carrot cake with an apricot-jam glaze, vanilla buttercream, and juicy figs. 06 of 41 Lemon and Berry Wedding Cake MARIA ROBLEDO A heaping pile of berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries) topped this lemon-layered naked cake. Get More Chic Berry Wedding Ideas 07 of 41 Wedding Cake with Blueberries 3 deseos y medio Cup&Cake Barcelona created this simple red velvet confection, which was adorned with a fresh touch of blueberries and rosemary. Red Velvet Wedding Cakes and Confections 08 of 41 Blackberry and Pumpkin Wedding Cake Meredith Perdue Blackberry purée, cream-cheese frosting, fresh blackberries, flowers, and greenery all accented this pumpkin Katie Made Bakery naked cake. Get More Great Pumpkin Ideas for Fall Weddings 09 of 41 Vibrant Fig Wedding Cake Jose Villa Sweet and Saucy Shop contrasted this bright white cake with the colorful punch of sliced figs. Find More Floral Wedding Cake Accent Ideas 10 of 41 Fruity Faux-Millefoglie Wedding Cake O'Malley Photographers This fruit-filled Devil's Thumb Ranch cake was made to mimic a traditional italian millefoglie. 11 of 41 Farm-to-Table Wedding Cake Linda Pugliese This purple-streaked white wedding cake, designed by Jason Schreiber, features big, flavorful blackberries. White Wedding Cakes That Make the Case for Going Classic 12 of 41 Red and Blue Berry Wedding Cake Rachel Thurston Sweet Layers Cakes & Pastries layered vanilla-bean cake and poppy-seed buttercream icing before sprinkling on an assortment of red and blue fruit. The Most Popular Wedding Cakes 13 of 41 Strawberry and Maracon Wedding Cake Gary Ashley for Les Loups This groom's relatives at Beach Plum Bakery Café made the couple an olive-oil wedding cake, which was ringed with dainty flowers and topped with strawberries and macarons. See More Small Wedding Cakes with a Big Presence 14 of 41 Petit Four Wedding Cakes with Kumquat Stephen Kent Johnson These mini hexagonal orange pound cakes have a honey glaze, whipped cream, and candied kumquat slices. See Our Freshest Spring Wedding Cakes 15 of 41 Cherry-Coated Wedding Carrot Cake This caramel-glazed and caramel-frosted carrot cake by The Scootabaker featured garden roses and red cherries. Get Inspired by Our Favorite Fresh-Flower Wedding Cakes 16 of 41 Mango Slice Wedding Cake For their tropical destination wedding, this couple had Parrot Cay chefs concoct a thematic confection, which was soaked in rum-punch syrup, layered with jasmine-mango jam, frosted with vanilla and passion-fruit buttercream, and coated in mango slices with a mango-passion glaze. We Love These Ultra-Unique Wedding Cakes 17 of 41 Lemon-Basil Wedding Cake with Strawberries Haley Richter Photography Cake Life Bake Shop made this lemon-basil cake with strawberry compote and cream-cheese frosting. We Bet You Haven't Tried These Creative Wedding Cake Flavors 18 of 41 Raspberry Basket Wedding Cake Christina Richards Weddings The basket-like look of this raspberry-filled yellow-and-chocolate cake was made with thin panels of white chocolate. Get Inspired by More Modern Wedding Cakes 19 of 41 Plum and Cardamom Wedding Cake Emily Wren Photography These cardamom-honey cake layers by Cake Life Bake Shop are topped with plum compote and accompanied by torched plums. 20 of 41 Peach and Pear Wedding Cake This art-inspired masterpiece (influenced by Cezanne's "The Basket of Apples") was designed by Wendy Kromer and featured lemon cake with meringue frosting. The marzipan peaches and pears that topped each layer were filled with nuts, dates, and figs. Get Inspired by DIY Wedding Cakes 21 of 41 Berry and Stacked Cheese Wedding Cake 3 deseos y medio This couple took an original route, building a cake out of stacked cheeses and topping it with fresh berries and herbs. Get Inspired by These Wedding Cake Alternatives 22 of 41 Lemon-Thyme Wedding Cake Romulo Yanes This lemon-thyme cake has layers of lemon curd and vanilla buttercream, plus candied lemon slices to decorate the exterior. Find More New Takes on Traditional Wedding Cake Flavors 23 of 41 Sugar and Fig Wedding Cake Love, The Nelsons A sweet dusting of powdered sugar completes this fig-layered vanilla cake. 24 of 41 Pineapple Upside-Down Wedding Cakes These single-serving cherry-filled Bundt cakes include "flowers" made from dried pineapple. View Recipe 25 of 41 Caramel Apple Wedding Cake Apples have been a symbol of love, fertility, and abundance since ancient Greek times, when the goddess Gaia gave her granddaughter a golden apple tree as a gift at her wedding to Zeus. Golden lady apples, painted with edible gold luster dust, are the focal point of this tower by Betsy Thorleifson of Nine Cakes in Brooklyn, New York. The vanilla-bean spiced apple cake—filled with caramel buttercream—is drizzled with luscious caramel. Check Out Our List of 50 Great Wedding Cakes 26 of 41 Lemon Icebox Wedding Cake Con Poulos To construct this lemon icebox cake, with its layers of scalloped lemon cookies and honey mascarpone cream, we simply built from the bottom up. Top yours with candied lemon slices for a tangy-sweet cookie cake that will appeal to fickle kids and grown-up foodies alike. (We made the cookies from scratch, but store-bought varieties work just as well; try Moravian Meyer lemon cookies from Salem Baking Co.) 27 of 41 Tropical Fruit Wedding Cake These yellow-cake layers are brushed with rum syrup and filled with passion-fruit curd and rum-and-vanilla-bean buttercream, while the top of each tier is spread with more passion-fruit curd. Hibiscus flowers, lychees, coconut, mini pineapple and bananas, and tamarillo crown the cake. Pressing a straw mat into the ivory fondant produces the textured appearance. Serve with a slice of fruit such as star fruit, and coconut sorbet. 28 of 41 Strawberry and Floral Wedding Cake Whimsical and sweet, this cake—with its gum-paste fruits and flowers atop white fondant—is a not-too-classic Bavarian style. A basket filled with tiny strawberries tops off the countryside-chic creation. 29 of 41 Pyramides de Sorbet Gentl & Hyers This sweet ice-cream cake is simply spectacular. Each of the realistic fruits, which cover an edible nougatine cone, is molded from refreshing sorbet. Love Frozen Treats? Try One of These Wedding Ice Cream Carts 30 of 41 Meyer Lemon Wedding Cake This confection is composed of layers of Meyer lemon-flavored cake, lemon curd, and coconut Swiss-meringue buttercream. Curls of fresh coconut and candied lemon peel form the ruffled flounces on the tiers. 31 of 41 Berry and Ladyfinger Wedding Cake Gentl & Hyers Here, feather-light ladyfingers surround a filling of raspberry mousse, raspberries, and fraises des bois, or wild strawberries, on soft almond biscuits. More berries and a drizzle of raspberry preserve crown the tiers. 32 of 41 Chocolate Kumquat Wedding Cake Dana Gallagher Consider this cake for a wintertime wedding, when the tiny citrus fruit is in season. Tart kumquats are candied and served on the side. Their syrup is brushed on the oval tiers of chocolate cake, which are covered in whipped ganache, then surrounded by bands of tempered bittersweet chocolate. The bands are adorned with flowers cut from kumquat skins and with leaves and flourishes piped in dark and white chocolate. 33 of 41 Grape and Pear Wedding Cake Kirsten Strecker A Tuscan-style cake with Swiss meringue buttercream is garnished with champagne grapes and Seckel pears. A cake stand of stoneware is supported by dowels inside the bottom tier. The display includes fall foliage, plums, and walnuts; the cake is served with Italian nougat candies. 34 of 41 Wedding Cake with Orange and Red Fruits Dana Gallagher This square buttercream wedding cake is adorned with apples, peaches, pears, plums, and currants to soften its edges and give it a charming appeal. 35 of 41 Chocolate-Lemon Wedding Cake Kirsten Strecker Royal-icing latticework gives this grand cake a summery feel, but the year-round appeal of citrus fruit makes it right for any season. The lemons are actually tinted white chocolate, the blossoms are made of gum paste, and the leaves are white fondant. 36 of 41 Strawberry Shortcake Wedding Cake Dana Gallagher Fresh strawberries top stacked pound cakes instead of traditional shortcake biscuits, while mascarpone cream is sandwiched between the layers. 37 of 41 Basket of Berries Wedding Cake Charles Maraia Early summer is the best time to choose a cake like this one, which is brimming with a fresh and varied assortment of the season's best berries. Red currants, raspberries, gooseberries, blueberries, and strawberries look beautiful jumbled together on basket-weave tiers (created using an oversize leaf tip). The cake's three tiers are supported by wooden dowels; the berries are arranged before the dowels are inserted, which helps hide the supports. 38 of 41 Millenery Lemon Wedding Cake Just try to resist this delightful cake enhanced by a zesty lemon curd filling. Natural and yellow buttercream were piped from the same bag to create the ombré latticework. A topper of silk flowers and millinery lemons makes this perfect for a casual garden wedding. 39 of 41 Cherry-Almond Wedding Cake Cherries and almonds are close botanical relatives, and they're famously compatible in desserts. Here, they meld lusciously in a three-tier cake cloaked in marzipan (a sweet almond paste) and scattered with marzipan cherries. Sour-cherry jam and buttercream top layers made with ground almonds. 40 of 41 Asian Fruit Wedding Cake Kirsten Strecker Designs from Asian ceramics inspired the gum-paste pomegranates and persimmons that adorn this fondant-covered cake. 41 of 41 Green Pear Wedding Cake Kirsten Strecker This octagonal fondant-covered cake has mini marzipan pears with vanilla-bean stems. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit