2 Tier Wedding Cake Ideas, From Rustic to Elegant

Isomalt decorations.

This small cake is completely plain on the fondant tiers, and they have feathery isomalt details that are made in pink and clear sugar, then painted with gold luster dust. This kind of design is pretty easy to do if you’re familiar with isomalt work, but you do need to have that experience to make it work. You could make a version of it using gumpaste, but it won’t be transparent.

Iridescent feathers.

This black fondant feather cake is covered with molded feathers, then brushed with a combination of blue, green, and purple luster dusts. It’s time-consuming because you have to mold each feather individually, but it’s easy even for a beginner as far as skill level goes.

Buttercream painted koi cake.

This koi pond cake had painted koi fish using colored buttercream icing, plus gumpaste waterlilies and leaves.

Black and red roses.

This black cake can be done in fondant or buttercream (fondant is easier), then the red flowers and ribbon details were added. With dark colors like this you need to be very careful to try to minimize the food coloring, so use this technique to cover them: Dark buttercream hack.

Purple isomalt decorations.

This cake had molded isomalt pieces that were applied to the fondant cake. The fondant was brushed with silver luster dust to bring out the detail in the molded pieces.

Simple polka dots and gumpaste flower.

Piped dots are a simple and easy way to decorate a sweet wedding cake, and adding a big focal gumpaste flower makes a dramatic and elegant decoration.

Wedding dress design.

This cake was designed based on the wedding dress, which had pleated ruffles and tiny flowers all over it. This kind of thing is pretty easy to do because it’s just making the decorations and placing it on a plain cake.

Candy clay covered cake.

Chocolate clay in different colors can be mashed together and rolled out to make a marbled look. You can also do this with fondant if you’re not comfortable with candy clay.

Fondant applique cake.

This double-barrel cake is technically three tiers, but since the profile is two tiers I’m including it. This is basically pieces of fondant cut out, applied to the cake, then overpiped with royal icing.

Geometric design with isomalt jewels.

This little cake had geometrics cut out of fondant and isomalt jewels applied to the cake in the wedding colors.

Painted buttercream flowers.

This pretty little cake had hydrangeas painted on the buttercream surface using colored buttercream.

Simple gumpaste roses.

This little cake had fondant pearls around the base of the tiers and red gumpaste roses in a cascade on the cake.

Chocolate strawberries.

This chocolate buttercream cake had a fudge drip and chocolate-dipped strawberries. When your guests see that combination I can guarantee that they’ll be happy.

Click here to see how to dip strawberries for this kind of design.

Buttercream ruffles.

This pretty buttercream ruffle cake had white gumpaste hydrangeas and red gumpaste peonies to add to the ruffly feeling. You can see a tutorial on how to do buttercream ruffles here.

Sets of cakes.

I’m adding this cake table to show how a small cake arrangement can be set up. When I did these kinds of cakes I usually did a different flavor on each cake so that the guest could have a choice of flavors.

Rustic cakes.

This set of cakes had a buttercream rosette and a naked cake on the single-tier cakes, and a semi-naked cake for the two-tier cake in the center. It’s a cute rustic arrangement that was set up at an intimate wedding reception at a local restaurant.

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Another group of three cakes.

This group of three cakes had two 2-tier cakes and gumpaste peonies with different colors on each cake.