These pretty wedding cakes with pearls range include all white with flowers, colorful, and elegant. The inspiration designs will give you ideas for a tiered cake for your reception.
Fondant pearls are the most realistic because they can be shaped individually and dried, then dusted with luster dust to give them the sheen.
They can also be made in different colors to match a wedding color theme, or piped with buttercream icing, but those won’t be as perfectly round.
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White wedding cake with pearl borders.
This wedding cake had white buttercream piping and fondant pearls around the base of the tiers.
The red and white gumpaste flowers were the color on the top of the cake and the sides of the tiers.
Lavender fondant draping wedding cake with pearls.
This wedding cake had buttercream designs piped all over it, with a combination of fondant pearls and gumpaste flowers.
The fondant draping and ribbons were dusted with lavender pearl dust.
Octagonal wedding cake with chocolate pearls.
This octagonal wedding cake had very pale pink fondant, piped and textured fondant designs, and white and chocolate fondant pearls.
Piped buttercream pearls wedding cake.
This version of the classic “pearls and swirls” design (that’s what I started calling it because it was so popular that I made it a lot) has piped pearls on the middle tier, large scrollwork on the top tier, and tiny scrolls on the bottom tier.
Piped buttercream wedding cake with pearls.
This was another pearls and swirls design, with a buttercream monogram on the top tier of the wedding cake.
Gumpaste roses and fondant pearls wedding cake.
Yet another version of the pearls and swirls, this one had fondant pearls in two different sizes (8mm and 6mm fondant pearls.)
Piping with pearl borders and square tiers wedding cake.
This three-tiered square wedding cake had fondant pearl borders and piped buttercream designs.
The fondant ribbon and bow topper were made from white fondant and dusted with purple petal dust so that the purple color wouldn’t fade.
White fondant wedding cake with gumpaste flowers and pearls.
The pretty wedding cake in this photo and the next was based on a wedding dress design that had a lot of applique and pearls on it.
It was a combination of gumpaste leaves, flowers, and ivy, plus white fondant pearls.
Applique wedding cake with pearls.
This version of the applique cake was made in buttercream with fondant pearls and flowers instead of so many leaves.
Plain white wedding cake with pearl borders.
This might look like a really simple cake, but cakes that are totally flat can be really difficult to accomplish. If the icing doesn’t want to smooth out, you’ll get lap lines.
This wedding cake had little Swiss dots piped on the top edge of the tiers, and fondant pearls at the base.
Gold wedding cake with pearls.
This little gold wedding cake had pink and white fondant pearls, gold leaf, and gumpaste sequins on it in a random pattern.
Geometric piped wedding cake with pearls.
This buttercream cake had a geometric pattern carved into the icing and piped on the surface with fondant pearls in the pattern.
Lace wedding cake with fondant pearls.
This lace-piped wedding cake had fondant pearls on the base of the tiers other than one, which was more heavily piped with buttercream lace.
Hexagonal wedding cake with silver pearls.
This hexagonal wedding cake is another version of the pearls and swirls design, but it also has silver fondant pearls at the base of the tiers.
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Silver wedding cake with pink and silver pearls.
This silver and pink wedding cake had buttercream piping that was painted with edible silver luster dust, and pink and silver fondant pearls.
Swiss dots and pearls wedding cake.
This pretty and simple wedding cake had piped Swiss dots and fondant pearl borders.
The flowers on this one were gumpaste.
Pink rolled roses and oval fondant pearls.
This wedding cake had oval fondant pearls. Click here for a tutorial on how to make this wedding cake design.
Rustic glam wedding cake with pearls.
This pretty rustic glam wedding cake has rustic buttercream icing, gumpaste peonies, and fondant pearls.
Three-tiered jewel wedding cake.
This wedding cake had three tiers with fondant pearls and other jewels. They were painted with purple luster dust to give them a shine.
Square wedding cake with green buttercream and pearls.
This square wedding cake had green and gold accents, with white fondant pearls on the top and bottom tiers.
The top tier has a sugar vase topper with gumpaste flowers.