Homemade Wedding Cake

We would love to hear about a wedding cake that you or a family member or friend baked.

What inspired you to make it yourself instead of buying it?

Where did you get the recipe?

Where did you get the pans?

Please share your recipe and preparation tips, if possible. (Some of our readers will be inspired to try to make one themselves if it looks good and sounds tasty).

We would love for you to include your best picure of the cake if at all possible. People love to see cakes before they make them!

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Four Tier Wedding Cake With Blue Flowers  
I wanted something a little different, but not too crazy. I liked the octagon shape, since it's not used often in wedding cakes that I could find. I also ...

White Wedding Cake With Strawberry Filling 
My step-mother is a very creative woman and an awesome baker and when she heard we were trying to save a bit of money on our wedding she offered to make ...

A Cheesecake Wedding Cake 
When my older daughter was getting married, she wanted a cheesecake wedding cake since she doesn’t like regular cakes.

We could find no caterer or ...

Inexpensive Wedding Cake 
I had always wanted a large cake but the cost was out of my budget. So, I had a friend of my mothers who helped us make my cake. It served over 400 people....

My First Practice Wedding Cake 
I made this cake for my Wilton Class 3 Course, but it was my initial inspiration in learning how to do wedding cakes.

The bottom tier is 2-10" round ...

Julie's First Fancy Cake Effort  Not rated yet
My siblings and I are throwing a surprise 70th Birthday/Retirement/Moving celebration for our parents tomorrow night. I volunteered to make the cake even ...

Cheesecakes For Wedding   Not rated yet
My husband and I decided long before our wedding date that we didn't want a traditional cake, since neither of us are big fans of cake. There are so many ...

Cut Flowers Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
My Mother-in-law did catering and made wedding cakes, so she did both for our wedding. We wanted something simple but beautiful, so she suggested a tiered ...

A Family Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
We wanted something simple but elegant. And adding the flowers gave it a nice touch. The cake was made by my husband's mother, even though she had never ...

The Perfect Wedding Cake   Not rated yet
This cake was made by my mother and me for my wedding a few years ago. The majority of the cake was made by mother because she has more experience than ...

Vanilla Lemon Pound Wedding Cake   Not rated yet
Its a simple lemon pound cake, with vanilla frosting. Its a 2 tier cake, with ornate flower frosting designs. My aunt (a pastry chef at a custom cake ...

Low Budget Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
This wedding cake was actually made by the friend of my mother in law. It was a great low budget cake for a low budget wedding. Don't be fooled though,...

Wedding Cake With Cascading Roses  Not rated yet
We chose this cake because it matched our personal style and the style of the wedding. Everything was red roses with greenery on a stark white, uncluttered ...

Three Layer Chocolate Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
This wedding cake was a 3 layer chocolate cake. The two smaller cakes on the side are spice. The entire cake was covered with butter cream frosting.

The ...

Artistic Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
This cake was done by a friend's very-talented and artistic sister. It is multi-tiered, with each level separated onto a different plate, and a very classy ...

Homemade Wedding Cake With Blue Flowers  Not rated yet
This cake was for my brother's wedding, and made by my sister and me. His wife chose the style. The bottom was white cake, the middle strawberry and cream ...

Wedding Cake With Lighted Fountain   Not rated yet
I did this wedding cake with lighted fountain for a friend in Venezuela. An accident happened with the original cake and no one knew to do cakes, so I ...

Animal Print Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
This was the cake that was made by my cousin Lauren for my other cousin, Mary Kate's wedding last summer. As a relatively young bride, she wanted something ...

Four Layer Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
We decided to do individual rectangular pieces for our wedding cake. It was a pina colada cake, white cake with a layer of a coconut and pineapple flavored ...

Chocolate Wedding Cake With Raspberry Filling   Not rated yet
I knew what kind of wedding cake I wanted in my head just from seeing different things that were in magazines so I was able to find someone who could do ...

Wedding Cake With Butterflies  Not rated yet
The maid of honor and I made my wedding cake. I decorated it with inexpensive butterflies from an online cake decorating company and a topper of sleeping ...

Chocolate Wedding Cake With Buttercream Roses  Not rated yet
Since we were planning on a simple and small wedding with only close family and friends I wanted a cake representing that too.

My best friend is a great ...

Chocolate Wedding Cake With Flowers  Not rated yet
This cake wasn't actually mine personally, but I was the maid of honor for this wedding. Her mom actually makes her own wedding cakes. So she was easily ...

Homemade Wedding Cake With Flowers  Not rated yet
As you can see this is not a simple design, or at least it was not simple to make. I started practicing about four months before my wedding (the things ...

Homemade Wedding Cake With Fresh Flowers  Not rated yet
This is my wedding cake (May 21, 2005). Not only is it beautiful, but it was HOMEMADE! A friend of ours was in culinary school at the time and didn't have ...

The Coolest Wedding Cake For The TV Game Freaker  Not rated yet
This was the wedding cake of one of my best friends that I knew in the college. She is a super video game fan, and that is the reason why she had this ...

Wedding Cupcakes  Not rated yet
My sister wanted to do something unusual with her wedding cake, and we figured that with the amount of people coming, wedding cupcakes would be the best!...

Gothic Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
Our wedding cake was 2 tier white with black icing and skeleton & gargoyle accents. My husband and I love halloween, skulls, horror movies etc. Our wedding ...

Our Home Baked Floral Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
Making this cake was a entire family effort. My mother-in-law baked it, her husband decorated, and my wife designed it. The stand was rented from a bulk ...

Meringue Baskets Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
My best friend was visibly worried about all the wedding arrangements. She asked me to look at the various menus for the reception and I gasped when I ...

Homemade Four Tier Orange And Lemon Buttercream Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
We baked this wedding cake for some friends that were getting married on a tight budget. This cake was a labor of love, and turned out quite delicious!...

10 Individual Wedding Cakes  Not rated yet
Our wedding was a very thrifty affair. Everything was done in the most cost effective method possible. My now husband burned 5 CD's of music, put them ...

Picnic Wedding  Not rated yet
For my daughter's wedding we had an outdoor wedding at a park, she loves nature. We didn't want to spend a lot of money on catering so everyone who was ...

Delicious Wedding Cakes  Not rated yet

I have a lot of cooking interest. If I was not a teacher then I would like to take catering as a career, that inspires me to cook cakes.

I got from ...

Budget Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
My sister was getting married and was on a very tight budget. To help her and her husband I decided to bake the wedding cake for them. I thought of different ...

My Sister's Wedding  Not rated yet
My sister's wedding cake was a delicious pineaple. We bought the Pineapple fruit and made a puddin, was delicious!!!

Magic Coconut Cake  Not rated yet
To make this Magic Coconut Cake that is sooo good you had to make it with a little bit of magic help. To make it cake you will need a cup of butter, 2 ...

Simple Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

The secretary at our office was getting married and she didn't have much of a budget. I found her at her desk crying one day because she was trying to ...

Home Made By Mom  Not rated yet

2 1/2 c. sifted cake flour
3 tbsp. dry milk
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 3/4 c. sugar
2/3 c. white shortening
1 c. water
1 tsp. white vanilla
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The Perfect Perfection  Not rated yet
My wife and I had a friend make our wedding cake. Our friend was a baker already so we didn't have to shop around for a cake maker or cake designer.

She ...

A Simple Family Cake  Not rated yet

My cousin got married very last minute to her long time boyfriend who was being deployed to Iraq. We didn't have time to order a traditional cake, and ...

Something Blue  Not rated yet

I wanted to make my best friend's wedding extra special, so I volunteered to make the wedding cake.

It was a small reception, so I made two 8 inch ...

Homemade Wedding Cake  Not rated yet

A homemade wedding cake can be a major challenge, but it is possible if you give yourself enough time and follow these tips.

A friend of ours wanted ...