Wedding Cakes

Black & White Wedding Cakes

Now that most wedding cakes are too powerful and vibrantly colored or too white, plain, simple and usual, a smart couple can opt for a classy, refined and simple sophisticated black & white wedding cake that can make a real statement on the wedding day. This monochrome type of wedding cake is very in vogue this year.




If you don’t want something too common, conventional and popular, you can change the decorative design of the black & white wedding cake, and transform it into something more attractive, unique and outstanding. In general, a black & white wedding cake makes an excellent compliment for classy, fancy, stylish and chic wedding affairs. More and more modern brides and grooms are choosing a vintage inspired wedding cake over a modern brand new designed wedding cake.

The idea is to obtain a wedding atmosphere that is more authentic, simple, old and yet fashionable. The simplicity is a crucial feature of a black & white wedding cake. If you decide to use too many patterns and decorative elements, the final look of the black & white wedding cake might be just too pompous and indecipherable.

The more natural, elegant and charming – without being too outrageous, exaggerated and extravagant the black & white wedding cake is the more eyes attracted. You can plan a whole wedding using the black and white theme. Retro, antique or funky period themed weddings are a great inspiration and context for a charming black & white wedding cake. Depending on what is your vision over the final aspect of the cake, you can choose from various designs.

The most popular shapes for black & white wedding cakes are square, hex, cylindrical, gift box or ice cube. In general, square black & white wedding cakes express more elegance, grandeur, sophistication and extravagance, while the round ones are rather more refined, delicate, sleek, dainty, chic and creative or playful. When it comes to the decorative part of a black & white wedding cake, the most usual and common patterns used are scroll designs, polka dot patters, flower patters, stripes, lines, circles, triangles, hearts, stars or any other deco art patterns.

If you’re looking for something really striking, impressive and original, you can opt for a splendid and spectacular zebra stripped black & white wedding cake, or perhaps for an intriguing artistic chess black & white wedding cake. Another type of modern pattern for black & white wedding cakes is the mosaic pattern.

One can choose a white wedding cake and have it decorated with black puzzle pieces for a more appetizing, stunning and magnificent look. You can alternate the colors according to each tier of the cake, and obtain a more elegant, equilibrated and fancy black & white wedding cake.