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Autumnal Confections

Leaves, branches, acorns and more—20 fall-themed cakes for your post-summer celebration

Branch Out

Simple style meets extraordinary detail with this vanilla-bean cake filled with blackberry jam and cream-cheese mousse. Frosted with French buttercream and covered in green rolled fondant, this wedding cake is accented with a large chocolate clay branch adorned with airbrushed gum-paste autumn leaves. Martine’s, martinespastries.com, $10 per slice, serves 100.

Beautiful Bark

In order to create a birch bark–like exterior, white-chocolate ganache was textured with cocoa over this coconut-cream cake filled with white-chocolate mousse and lemon curd. Gum-paste cymbidium orchids, wild flowers and berries sit on each tier for a finishing touch. Something Sweet by Michelle, somethingsweetbymichelle.com, $10 per slice, serves 150.

Precious Pumpkins

The orange-hued fall favorite provides the perfect topper for this white, buttercream-frosted confection with sugar-paste leaves in natural autumn hues. Pink Cake Box, pinkcakebox.com, $8 per slice, serves 100.

Eco-Inspired

Hipster-chic meets naturally charming in this four-tier spice cake with handpainted flora and fauna silhouettes in fall colors. Charm City Cakes, charmcitycakes.com, $1,500.

Very Violet

Natural yet feminine purple is the perfect color for any fall affair. Play up your wedding palette with this cake made of hand-molded sugar roses, hydrangea, stock and cymbidium orchids. Sylvia Weinstock, sylviaweinstock.com, price available upon request.

Like a Fine Vine

Only a cake this elaborate could be so decadent. Under the gum-paste bittersweet vine and calla lily trim is a wild-carrot cake filled with homemade apple sauce, pineapple and walnuts covered in cream-cheese icing. Cakes from Cabin Ridge, cakesfromcabinridge.com, $9 per slice, serves 90.

It "Wood" Be Nice

Yes, it’s edible! This square almond cake is filled with mocha toffee and covered in chocolate ganache, but the most important element is the wood-textured chocolate transfer attached to each tier. The cake is finished with sugar leaves at the corners and a chocolate dove cake topper. The Cake Studio, thecakestudio.net, $7 per slice, serves 125.

Blooms and Buds

Caramel branches wrap around this chocolate fondant–covered cake. Small ivory blooms are dusted with a mossy green color for a finishing touch. Confetti Cakes, confetticakes.com, price available upon request.

Falling Leaves

Handpainted red-leaf silhouettes pop against the white and green background of this chocolate fudge cake with organic mixed berries, and hand-shaped maple leaves trickle down the exterior. I Dream of Cake, idreamofcake.com, $15 per slice, serves 100.

Sugar Stems

Both square and round tiers make up this spice cake, which is covered in white fondant and Swiss meringue buttercream. For a shimmering glow, the exterior is brushed with edible pearl dust and decorated with a royal icing beaded border. Out of its sides "grow" stems of sugar blossoms for a natural yet elegant touch. Ana Parzych Custom Cakes, anascustomcakes.com, $12.50 per slice, serves 200.

Dessert Tower

This massive five-tier vanilla cake with hazelnut praline crunch and fresh blueberry cream filling packs a lot of punch into one magnificent confection. Covered in taupe fondant, this cake showcases bunches of sugar cymbidium orchids, calla lilies, fern, grass and curly willow, as well as textured leaf appliqués and sugar leaves throughout. Ron Ben-Israel, weddingcakes.com, $15 per slice, serves 200.

Mocha Madness

For the stylish bride who loves to stay on theme, this square cake covered in café au lait buttercream channels the taste of rich coffee and is accented with leaves and berry branches in lively seasonal colors. Sylvia Weinstock, sylviaweinstock.com, price available upon request.

Orange Lust

Blooming from top to bottom, this square hazelnut torte cake with chocolate mousse and hazelnut praline filling is frosted with chocolate truffle for a natural base. The baker describes the flower display as a “downward dissipating smattering of russet-hued blossoms,” and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Alice’s Tea Cup, alicesteacup.com, $10.50 per slice, serves 160.

Fall Favorite

Cartoon-like fall decorations of fondant and gum-paste leaves, acorns and berries cascade down this red velvet cake frosted with cinnamon-vanilla buttercream for a spicy yet sweet autumn confection. Baked, bakednyc.com, $480.

First Impression

Two airbrushed tiers of leaf impressions sandwich an embossed leaf pattern featuring a gold monogram. The cake is finished with gold bead rings that accent the bottom of each tier as well as a cascade of fondant fall leaves. Cakeline, cakeline.com, $12 per slice, serves 75.

Flowery Treat

Perfectly wrapped like a tasty present, the modern square tiers of this apple spice and caramel cake are covered in taupe fondant and decorated with metallic bronze balls and edible stripes. Handmade sugar paste hydrangea provide a finishing touch. Fleur de Lisa, fleurdelisa.com, $14 per slice, serves 100.

Chocoholic

Milk-chocolate rolled fondant covers this almond cake filled with Grand Marnier buttercream, raspberries and chocolate ganache. The confection is accented with hand-molded autumnal accents in shades of brown and is topped with a sculpture of gum-paste leaves and twigs. Irene’s Cakes by Design, irenemaston.com, $8 per slice, serves 120.

Antique Autumn

This walnut spice cake with cream-cheese filling is covered in fondant and airbrushed to mimic the feel of antique silk and copper. A chocolate-brown fondant stripe separates the colors for a modern touch, and sugar-paste grape leaves, raspberries and walnuts serve as both the cake’s topper and decoration. Kim Payne, weddingcakesbykimpayne.com, $6 per slice, serves 100.

Hearts and Flowers

Fresh flowers in fall colors and fondant hearts are all it takes to decorate this white chocolate fondant–covered pumpkin spice cake with apple butter and cream-cheese filling. Merci Beaucoup Bakery, revassweetart.com, $8 per slice, serves 120.

Richy Rich

A textured exterior of chocolate buttercream covers this espresso chocolate cake filled with fresh raspberries and ganache that looks just as good as it tastes. The towering confection is adorned with fall leaves, fruit and autumn flowers. The Cake Studio, thecakestudio.net, $5.50 per slice, serves 150.

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Courtesy of Martine's

Courtesy of Something Sweet by Michelle

Courtesy of Pink Cake Box

Courtesy of Charm City Cakes

Courtesy of Sylvia Weinstock

Courtesy of Cakes from Cabin Ridge

Courtesy of The Cake Studio

Courtesy of Confetti Cakes

Courtesy of I Dream of Cake

Courtesy of Ana Parzych Custom Cakes

Courtesy of Ron Ben-Israel