Wedding cakes for 40 people

Discover small but mighty cake ideas for your wedding. A one-tier white cake with gold sparkles adds elegance without overdoing it. This stunning gold-wrapped cake will make a bold statement at your celebration. Learn how to make your simple cake shine. Explore more creative wedding cake ideas today!

Here, you'll find 17 stunning wedding cake ideas you can DIY thanks to the instructions I provided (including single-tier cakes).

I quite enjoyed maths at school. I was never brilliant at it, but I liked how precise it was, and that there was always a right or wrong answer. When I became a professional wedding cake designer, I was surprised by how much of my job would involve a high level of mathematical precision, and it’s yet another reason I get a kick out of what I do. Every time I discuss wedding cake sizes with my clients, we need to do a bit of maths. Here’s the equation: How many people you want to serve x how…

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Deconstructed 3 tiered cake on heirloom cake pedestals and antique boxes. My recipes for CAKE: Sugar Geek Show WASC and chocolate WASC. FILLING: Chelsweet’s raspberry cake filling. FROSTING: Preppy Kitchen’s Italian Meringue Buttercream lightly flavored wjth King Arthur’s Fior di Sicilia (citrus/vanilla). Baked all cake/frosting 3wk in advance, triple wrapped and froze. Day before wedding, assembled cakes. Fridge. Day of, put fresh flowers with stems plastic wrapped into cakes. Delicious!

We're calling it: Wedding sheet cakes are going to be the biggest reception trend of 2025. Sheet cakes have always been considered the "backup" cake to ensure a crowd gets fed, while tiered confections take center stage—but that's all changing. Here, we track the origins of this trend and share five wedding sheet cake ideas to inspire you.

Cake Servings - A good visual guide. Note that these are 4" tall tiers.

Three tiered semi naked wedding cake with pink and coral florals and kumquot