A simple wedding cake design can be a small 1-tier cake or a larger cake with a minimalist or monochromatic design. Whether you’re having a low-key wedding reception at home, an intimate restaurant reception, or a large reception with a simple elegant wedding cake design, these cakes from real weddings will give you some ideas to get started.
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Simple wedding cake with pearls.
Pearls are an elegant minimalist decor idea that are easy to use on a wedding cake to dress it up.
This is the ultimate minimalist simple cake design, with smooth icing on the sides and pearls at the base of the tiers and the top edges of the cake tiers. You can leave it as-is or add flowers to add some color.
This simple and girly design has piped flowers, some bows for color, and pearls around the base of the cake tiers.
This simple square tiered cake has fondant pearls around the base of the tiers with piped designs in buttercream and a fondant purple ribbon on top and on the sides.
This simple wedding cake design has pretty Swiss dots piped on the buttercream tiers with fondant pearls on the base borders. Sugar flowers give it a little color but the soft colors keep the overall design on the simple side.
Simple lace wedding cake.
This single-tier cake was part of a trio of individual tiers. It was decorated with a simple piped lace design and a single sugar flower on the top.
This cake looks simple because of the monochromatic color, but it has a texture that mimics lace that was piped on the buttercream. A single row of fondant pearls at the base makes it more dressy but still simple as far as the color goes.
This simple square tiered cake had a lacy pattern piped on the tiers with piped borders at the base of the tiers. The only other decoration was a monogram cake topper, and it gave the entire design a simple yet elegant look.
This cake had plain white tiers with a lace fondant band on the base of the tiers. The gumpaste flowers on the top tier gave it some color.
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Simple 3 tier wedding cake.
This pretty little cake had a simple buttercream border piped on the tiers and some large gumpaste flowers as the focal point.
This simple three-tiered cake also had plain buttercream tiers and a large gumpaste flower for color. The bottom borders were also piped buttercream, so it kept the whole design simple and elegant.
This was a simple design that was very popular when I was making wedding cakes. It had a buttercream vine piped around the center of each tier, with gumpaste flowers in a simple green and white color sheme.
This minimalist wedding cake had white fondant bands at the base of the tiers and little marzipan pears as the only decoration. This matched the “Perfect Pair” theme that the couple had chosen for their reception.
This tree-tiered white cake had a simple fondant drape and smooth sides and borders on the bottom of the tiers.
Simple fall wedding cake ideas.
This simple fall cake had square tiers with gumpaste autumn leaves and acorns. The tiers were stacked on top of each other with no piped borders, and the fall colors were the only color on the cake.
I categorize this cake as simple because the only decorations on it are piping and pearls at the base of the tiers. The alternating chocolate and vanilla icing gives it some visual interest.
This is another example of a simple wedding cake that uses an easy bottom border and fall leaves to add some color in a casual way.
This is a simple one-tiered cake that has a deceptively easy-to-make ribbon on top and fondant lace on the sides of the tier. The small size doesn’t mean that you have to be plain, a simple cake can be decorated nicely without being too overdone.
Simple winter wedding cakes.
This wedding cake was actually stacked cheesecakes iced with a simple meringue buttercream frosting on the sides. The snowflakes between the tiers were made from royal icing.
This square wedding cake had a snowflake design, and even though there are a lot of them, I still think of this as a simple cake because it was pretty easy to decorate once the tiers were stacked.
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Simple rustic wedding cakes.
This pretty cake had a simple fondant band at the base and sliced fruit. It was a charming cake design that hinted at the flavors on the inside.
This cake with rustic buttercream icing had some large gumpaste flowers as the decoration, which gave it some color. If you’re making your own wedding cake, or if you want a casual feel, a rustic icing technique is easy to do, and it gives you a good base to add flowers to.
Rustic cakes can be small or large, and they’re especially nice for outdoor summer weddings since the icing feels more casual. This cake had gumpaste flowers and gumpaste succulents on it, which added to the less-formal mood.
This rustic cake was a version for winter. It had white gumpaste flowers with shiny crystal sugar centers.
This rustic cake had buttercream icing ridges, which is another rustic icing technique. This is another casual look that’s a little more structured than the swirly icing.
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