Hello everyone! Hope everyone’s week is going great! I have finished two more cake designs and I thought I’d share them with you. These cakes are a hexagon shape as you can see in the photos…I think this is a fun shape to play around with and it produces a “different” looking cake that might just be the look a bride wants. The first cake is a fun and funky design that is easy to execute. Simply cut out fondant dots with a circle cookie cutter and glue them onto your fondant cake with a little water. As you can see in the photos I used a stamp impression to create a flower design on the yellow dots to give them a different kind of look. You can see this process in a previous post. I feel like this would be a good cake for a beginner to try out since the look can be easily duplicated and come out crisp and clean looking.
I then tried out a second look that is more simplistic. I made this fondant flower a while ago and thought that putting it on the cake as the main focus would be sort of fun. You can check out the process for how to make this flower on a previous post.
Before I talk about the giveaway I need to thank two bloggers for giving me some awards. First I wanted to thank Fields of Cake… for the “Kick” Ass Blog” award! I never considered myself “kick ass”, but maybe now I will!
I also wanted to thank Comida Espanola for the Premio “Arte y Pico” Award. It is so fun that blogs can reach everyone around the world and I love that even though my blog isn’t in Spanish that people can still enjoy it through photos, so thank you for checking it out!
Now for your favorite part…giveaways!!! I absolutely love the book Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey by Jill O’Conner, so I thought I would share my love and give it to a blogger that inspires me!
So all you have to do to enter into the drawing is post a comment with an idea for a wedding cake design for me. I am trying out new designs and always love hearing what everyone’s dream cake would be or what they wish they would’ve done. I am so excited to hear your thoughts and opinions and will be picking a winner on Saturday night at midnight. So get your wheels a turning and give me some good inspiration for another cake design. Thanks!!!
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My favorite cakes are simple and have clean lines and I think really good cakes should be elegant. A lot of people like fun and quirky cakes but I think a nice combination of the two would be a bamboo cake. A tiered circle cake covered in “bamboo” with maybe a flower on top. I just like the lines and depth of bamboo. Your hex cakes look great, its such a different shape for cakes yet isn’t so far out of the box for the mainstream.
My ideal wedding cake would have to reflect our favourite things – his obsession with choc mint, and mine with hot pink! My favourite cakes are the ones that aren’t too “busy” looking, but I do love the ones that use colour in a creative way – particularly damask patterns. So Id love a hot pink cake, with a simple damask pattern but isnt too overpowering!
I really love monograms and wish I would have done something with that. I like really simple cakes, too. I would have loved also to have maybe a pale pink cake instead of the traditional white. I love your fondant cutouts maybe something with that with monograms. I also think it would be really cool to have a bunch of the fondant circles premade so the cake servers could put one on each piece that is served. I know that would be time consuming:)
i love your new designs! your cakes just amaze me and i hope to try some of your ideas out someday! hmmmm…i really like simple cakes, but with bold colors. i like the idea of a round-tiered cake, in white, with thin vertical stripes in grass green and chocolate brown. maybe some fresh, little flowers in different shades of bright and ligh green. i love the look of fresh flowers on a cake! i will actually be making my first wedding cake this weekend and i’ll be sure to post pictures. i can’t wait to see what you come up with next!
I love when cakes are made to look like other foods. Perhaps you could make a hamburger cake, or maybe one that looks like a giant T-bone steak.
C
What a beautiful design..it looks so simple, yet mod! I’m gonna have to try this for a cake one day soon!!
My fiance and I just submitted for a simpler cake, since it was included with the reception. However, my idea for a cake would be a combination of our wedding theme and our college roots. Our wedding is going to have a lot of fleur de lis in it, since it will be in New Orleans. With that, a 3 tiered cake (round) with an ivory fondant on top. Since we graduated from LSU, tiger stripes have to be on the cake!! In my ideal cake, the stripes would be dark purple with a gold pearl dust painted along the edges. Then the fleur de lis can be either piped on or buttercream transfer on top of the fondant in a pearlized ivory color. It would be so beautiful!!
Your new designs are beautiful! I really like when different shape cakes are stacked on top of one another. I like circles stacked on squares, but I think a hex tier would be awesome. I also like the color combo of teal and chocolate brown. So… I guess my idea is a tiered cake with the layers being in different shapes with chocolate brown ribbon at the base of each tier and a cascade of teal fondant flowers on wire! Thanks again for all of the beautiful ideas you post!
Oh I hope my post works this time! I think a really fun wedding cake would be a Rube Goldberg Machine. You know? Like the bride drops a golf ball into a funnel at one end of the table and it hits a lever, which lifts a gate thus allowing water to empty into a vessel, the weight of which causes the vessel to drop encountering another lever, etc… and the last action of the machine would be a knife that makes the first cut into the cake. Oh yeah, and the cake should have lemon curd filling.
Hmm, hmm, you love in California, right? Probably not too far from wine country. What would you do for a couple of wine-lovers, getting married in a vineyard, with a whole wine-themed wedding? Love the idea of using champagne grapes, but they are only available for such a short time…
I have that cookbook, but I just wanted to complement you on the polka dot hexagon cake. It’s so cute! I really, really would like to start experimenting with cakes and fondant. You’re an inspiration!
Oh I just love that second cake!! It’s absolutely gorgeous!
Here’s a cake idea for you – coming from a totally nerdy crossword-lover
How about a crossword design on the cake, with the words being those that are special to the couple – names, places, etc.? I told you I’m a nerd!
Definitely try an ocean theme. Not a beachy or a a disneyfied version, but just the colors of a tropical ocean trimmed with foam. I think that would look beautiful.
I love these designs. My favorites are simple designs like your ribbon wrapped hexagonal tiers. My ideal design would be a simple round cake with 4 tiers. The first/bottom tier would be round, the next tier would be square, the next up a hexagon, and the final a small round one again. A ribbon wouldn’t necessarily work on this, but a unifying design {like cherry tree blossoms on branches} could meld the layers together. simple monograms on each layer with a coordinating shape/design around each monogram – a square around the monogram on the round tier, a hexagon around the monogram on the square cake, and round on the hexagon shape.
ooh, now I want cake! Maybe this cookbook could help me with that!
Inspired by Aimee’s comment, how about vineyard-themed? A tiered cake, covered in the palest of green fondant, decorated with icing/fondant grapevines growing on trellises. The filling would have to be chocolate-raspberry, or something else that would pair well with red wine.
Hey! My weeding cake was the WORST and I wish I would’ve know about you so that you could’ve helped create my beautiful day. Anyway, I’ve often thought back on my AMAZING day and what I would’ve done different. The hexagon cake would’ve been awesome! I would’ve done three tiers in hexagon, round, hexagon order. I love the simplicity that you have going on the second cake. I would like to see maybe on the base fondant layer a funky stamp impression around the whole cake and then a simple eggplant and green colors (because those were my colors) in a flower of some sort placed between the top and second layer and then as you go down the cake you add two flowers between the second and third and then the bottom of the cake you scatter them along the bottom. You are such an inspiration and always challange me to get my creative juices flowing. I’m doing cookies now, but would eventually LOVE to learn how to work with fondant and do wedding cakes!
I think the hexagon cake and your simple, clean lined cakes are the best. I’m not into a lot of frou frou stuff. In Vancouver, we have a lot of multicultural weddings. There would be a huge demand for a simple, clean-lined wedding cake with an Asian theme, a Jewish theme. an Indian, German or Italian theme etc. You know…without being tacky and all that and relying on stereotypes. Because putting a Chinese word on a cake or using the flag colours of a country isn’t right or original. I’m thinking more in terms of colours and flora and fauna type stuff. A Japanese cake with cherry blossoms or a Chinese cake with a phoenix & dragon? That sort of thing…you get the idea.
I think your cakes are beautiful (and the cookbook looks awesome!). I bet you could make a gorgeous cake with a leaves and ladybugs theme. Keep the base frosting smooth (it’s called fondant, right?), maybe a cream or a light green, and then with some type of swirling leaves pattern with lady bugs. I’m thining 3 tiers! Or a nice bright yellow big round cake made to look like a dandelion (I think they’re pretty, not just weeds!) – but perhaps a daisy would be more appropriate. Or a tie dyed looking cake – is there some way to do swirled looking frostings in neon colors (2 or 3 tirs, round), with a nice big yellow smiley face on the top? That would be cute for a kid’s party. There’s my 3 thoughts!
Hi Melody, I love your cakes. I love the simplicity.
My favourite wedding cake would follow your lines – round but I would love to color it in blue metallic and nothing else — just the fondant cover – I would love it with “few” flower designs as you can do – maybe on beige metallic fondant.
i am the least creative person in the world, so i’m not even gonna try to give you a suggestion. seems like you’re doing a pretty magnificent job without my help anyway.
i love these cakes, especially the random yellow dots and massive pink flower. more perfection, as usual.
I would love a square tiered cake in pale blue, with dark chocolate brown accents – something that looks lacey, preferrably.
This cake is wonderful! I would love to see a cake designed with scrapbookers in mind. Scrapbooking is one of the top hobbies in the US and scrapbookers come together for all kinds of events like crops and parties and even weekend getaways and cruises! How cool would it be to have a cake that caters directly to this awesome hobby?! I would LOVE to see you create one!
I really like to monogrammed idea too but my second choice would be tiered rings with something swirling up the middle. Maybe ribbons or Ivy.
Reason I’d like rings of cake is that it also looks pretty when cut and every one can have and edge piece
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I love the hex cakes! Although I’m already married and I loved our wedding cake (done by Carrie’s Cakes), I think a plain white cake with blue gumpaste hydrangeas and white streptocarpus with little pearls in the middle would be amazing.
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Ok it worked now so i’ll try and repeat my first comment that wasn’t posted. Hate when that happened! Your cakes as usual are gorgeous, you seem to have the ability of taking simple thingas and tranform them in something wonderful! Inspired by your profile cookies I would love to see a bride and groom profiles facing each other, placed in some spots of the cake maybe in different sizes and color… Also cutout wedding rings all over the cake just popped into my mind! have fun reading all the ideas!
I am really loving the tiered cakes where each tier is very tall and only sliiiiightly smaller in circumference then the one below it.
I would also enjoy seeing you use fresh fruit.
I am loving the look of sliced fruit on classic white buttercream (lemons are a part of my “theme”). The fruit is sliced in half circles and placed around the bottom of each tier rather then ribbon, frosting beads or fondant. I think it not only looks fresh and chic, but the scent the fruit gives off is great too!
oops, make that stephanotis, not streptocarpus. They’re so cute!
I love the simplicity of your cake style. I love the clean, yet beautiful look you create. I hope you haven’t already done this before, but I think black and white cakes are gorgeous. Damask is really big right now, so maybe a white cake with some black damask for accents. Then maybe add one of your big colorful flowers to make it really pop!!!
Melody, these cakes are so elegant! How about a whimsy one; bride and groom characters are from the gum paste, with cute faces and some personality? I’m thinking about Carol Deacon’s book, she does have some lovely ideas.
I did looove my wedding cake (three layers covered in white chocolate curls).
If I had to chose an alternative, I would go with a Breakfast at Tiffany’s themed cake (you know, blue boxes, white ribbon). I know this has been done before but I still find it to be so elegant and beautiful.
Perhaps you could do a fresh take on the Breakfast at Tiffany’s theme (considering it never seems to get old)?
What about a scallop shaped wedding cake i wanted one for my wedding, but the Torrance bakery said that they didn’t have a pan shaped like that, but i think that would make a really pretty wedding cake. Like a four tier round cake with scalloped edges all the way down the cake.
Old-school glamorous Hollywood.
A Star-themed tiered cake with silver-colored fondant stars, edible dragees, silver dust, and thinly piped black & white accents.
I have these silver foil star bursts stems that I use to decorate my Christmas tree; they’d be perfect to scatter on the cake as if it’s bursting with silver stars.
Glam.
i liked the design on my cake but did not care for the flowers (they were kind of thrown on at the last minute b/c the bakery wouldn’t put real flowers on the cake and the wedding coordinator did it right before the reception). i too like simple things. a cake with ribbon at the base and one or two bold flowers is what i would pick today. i love the simplicity of your cakes. for me, simple is generally so much better.
The gray and yellow are AMAZING!!! I love the dots!
I can’t think of anything to suggest because I think the two cakes you featured above are simply devine. I would have loved to have had either of those for my wedding.
I think a white 3 tier cake with bunches of red roses along the bottom of each tier would be beautiful. Also, there could be one large red rose on the top. Thanks for the chance. You have talent.
what about an oval tiered cake?
althought i LOVE the way fondant looks on a wedding cake (smooth and clean), i don’t really like the way it tastes. i would much rather have a mouthfull of amazing frosting, than a mix of frosting and fondant. i’d love to see your version of a cake w/out using all fondant. i am a huge fan of your dot decorations, so i could see using some fondant but more about frosting and less about the smooth texture (like a cupcake…but not
). i’d want it to still be decorative on the outside. i understand the practicality of fondant, but the more i type i wonder if it’s possible to get the cake i’d want – without it looking like it came straight out of the early 90’s!? 
My friend’s wedding delicious chocolate cake was iced with champagne icing and embossed with her and her hubby’s song. It was elegant, emotional, and gorgeous!
If I could choose a cake again, it would be something with an “old look” but with a music theme. I can spend ours on your site, it is simply phenomenal!
I love your new designs, I really need to get to work on more designs…I have the dummies here, but keep forgetting that I can actually USE them! Duh! Do you find it more difficult to cover the hexagon shapes or is it about the same as circle and square? I will think of a design or two at work today..I already have the cookbook, but it is still fun to contribute. Have a great day
Carrie
I especially like the second cake Melissa. Seeing that I adore figs, perhaps a cake using their colors as inspiration. I have designed a number of dinnerware patterns and found fashion to be a great source of inspiration as well.
WIth 2 little girls I have always wanted to do an over the top tea party. What about a 3 or 4 tiered cake made to look like stacked tea cups. Round cakes with the bottoms shaved, then handles coming out the sides. The top cup could have light brown fondant “spilling” over! Your creations are amazing!!!! Thanks for sharing your talents.
I’m a huge fan of cinnamon and apple pie caramel deliciousness and I think I would like something like that only something with a dense custard-y type cake more like bread pudding in consistency. Maybe with white/or dark chocolate melted throughout as well.
More beautiful cake designs. I’m doing a cake for a friend’s wedding next month so I’m in need of great inspiration! I love how simple and elegant your cakes are.
Beautiful. Lovely how simplicity is so pretty. I really like the geometric feel of the first cake. I also think the design would be great for fabric/dresses.
I love secret compartments, so what about a cake with various small little cutouts in the sides? Something like little windows that have a surprise in them or spilling out of them.
I just made my first real cake and it was a wedding cake for sister-in-law. It came out good, but I have fallen in love with cake decorating. I haven’t tried fondant yet, but you can do amazing things with it. Your cakes are beautiful!! I love simple too! Our theme at our wedding was leaves (green), so maybe a white icing with different shaped and colors of green leaves cut out and placed on it. I like round cakes with 2 or 3 tiers.
For me, I’d love to have a cake with several different tiers, each one representing a different country/nationality. I think it would be so fun!
I love looking at flickr for ideas. You always have such great ideas. How about a pale blue fondant cake with small dark blue and silver flowers cascading down the side?
I think the cutest wedding cake would involve using those edible printer sheets (Sorry, I don’t know the proper name) and printing pictures of the happy couple.