These One-Tier Wedding Cakes Are Legit Works of Art

Mix both mod and natural elements by combining gold and silver leaf detailing with statement flowers and lithe branches.

Ivy + Stone Cake Design

Inspired by Chantel Lauren Designs' wedding dress, this gorgeous confection is a new take on ombré.

Annie's Cakes

We love this modern moody style—the black icing makes any foliage pop, no matter how simple.

Ivy + Stone Cake Design

Simple and elegant, this ladylike one-tier cake is perfect on its own or paired with other white confections.

Ivy + Stone Cake Design

With a completely signature style, Maggie Austin's designs are immediately recognizable with ethereal frills, dreamy watercolors, and lifelike sugar flowers (check out her new book for more wild inspo). This one looks like it came straight out of Marie Antoinette's fantasies, no?

Maggie Austin Cakes

Talk about a statement flower. The sugar kind, of course.

Ivy + Stone Cake Design

We love the combo of semi-nakedness, citrus, and copper leafing for an unexpected lightness.

Annie's Cakes

Dubbed the "Cherry Bomb Cake" by its Colombian creator, Julián Ángel, "this cake seems both romantic and rude at the same time," he says. Delicious layers of white chocolate cake meld with red berries and white chocolate buttercream.

Julián Ángel

Annie Pugmire created this sweet pink lady for a photoshoot inspired by La La Land. We love the minimal fresh flowers that allow the vibrant color of the cake to shine.

Annie's Cakes

Lovely hand-painted flowers adorn this simple one-tier confection.

Annie's Cakes

We're head over heels for this blue-edged watercolor cake—it has just the right amount of color for the minimalist bride.

Annie's Cakes

An ultra modern take on the somewhat traditional lace cake, this incredible desert focuses on bas-relief which is a sculpture carving technique with classical roots.

Fleur and Flour

This "pretty in pink" cake makes the sugar flowers the focus, and is a fun example of making a specific color the central element.

Fleur and Flour

For this crystal cake, baker Alana Jones-Mann first made the sugar candy and then cut, carved, and colored the candy pieces into crystals. Perfect for the boho(ish) bride.

Alana Jones-Mann

For the bride that loves her neons, create a vibrant contrast to minimal/white décor and attire with this semi-naked red velvet column.

Cakes by Cliff

Another way to showcase your beloved peonies are atop layers of red velvet with pink chocolate sails.

Cakes by Cliff

Revel in the unexpected with a soft and fluffy gingerbread cake. Add in caramelized green apples and brown butter frosting for major impact, along with some fragrant dusty roses.

Julián Ángel

Let the adventure begin with semi-nudity and draped ferns.

Cakes by Cliff

Texture is everything with this little cake. Hazelnut praline and textured Nutella buttercream come together for a big impact.

Cakes by Cliff

Hand cut and detailed feathers were made from modeling chocolate, then gently positioned around a vanilla buttercream cake.

Alana Jones-Mann

We're obsessed with this ultra-modern number. The wraparound sugar suggests the cake could fly away at any moment‚ if only the industrial concrete stand weren't anchoring it down.

The Butter End

Rocks, glitter, and chocolate—all you (hypothetically) need to create this show-stopping geode cake.

Julián Ángel

This trio finds a common thread in a neutral color palette accented with shining copper. Take a cue from the varying sizes, shapes, and textures featured while still being cohesive.

Whipped Cake Co.

Bet you've never seen a wedding cake in this shade before. We love the dusty, earthy, natural tones of this sweet thing.

Maggie Austin Cakes

For a fresh, modern look have your baker create several single-tier square and rectangular cakes in different sizes. Decorate them with fresh flowers and display them on elevated Lucite stands for a super-chic look.

The Butter End

Gold shards dominate this midnight stunner.

Julián Ángel

Perfect icing flowers are where it's at.

Whipped Cake Co.

We love this dramatic one-tier cake—the colors are so spellbinding, no garnishes are needed.

Buttercream Bakery

The best use of a deep-V we've ever seen.

Whipped Cake Co.

Romantic, dreamy, and moody all at once—can you believe all those flowers are made from sugar? Just plain beauty.

Maggie Austin Cakes

Unicorn or cake? Rainbow buttercream piping adorns pastel chocolate shards.

Whipped Cake Co.

This edgy cake design features three tiers embellished with tulle and rhinestones. The desserts are displayed on a custom concrete and steel structure for an urban, industrial look.

The Butter End

Refined and understated, this cake has just the right amount of furnishings.

Whipped Cake Co.

Part watercolor, part ombre—all gorg.

Pretty Sweet

How cool is the texture of this cake alongside the prickly blooms on top?

Pretty Sweet

If this isn't the perfect shade of Millennial pink, we're not sure what is. Love the simplicity of the cake combined with the thick drips.

Pretty Sweet

Celebrate all things love with this gorgeous hand-painted cake made even sweeter with blooming buds that accent the colors in the paint.

Buttercream Bakery

Hold up—is this a painting or a cake?

Julián Ángel

This semi-naked cake gets modernized with elements such as the pastel drip and gold leaf—rustic with style.

Sugar Fixé

This trio is the definition of delicate. The flowers and stamens are all gilded sugar...

Maggie Austin Cakes

A play off of the iconic banana leaf ("Martinique") wallpaper at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a repetitive design of the pattern was printed on edible sugar paper, which was then wrapped around a smoothed buttercream cake.

Alana Jones-Mann

Yes, this is a real cake.

Maggie Austin Cakes

So weird and wonderful in all the right ways—we love all the layers on this petite square cake.

Earth and Sugar

Minty and blush with a little gold chocolate for an ethereal one-tier beaut.

Earth and Sugar

Simple and classy with a pop of color center stage.

Earth and Sugar

Love these moody maroon painted tones accented with bright gold shards with just a hint of white peeking out.

Buttercream Bakery

For a whimsical confection, add on a few pastel macarons in differing sizes that compliment monochromatic flowers.

Earth and Sugar

Soft and smooth, this coconut cake is the definition of graceful femininity.

Julián Ángel

This modern industrial concrete cake is offset by icing succulents and just a hint of white drip and gold flakes.

Raymond Tan

Vibrant and alive, this graphic beauty is almost too gorgeous to eat (almost...).

Julián Ángel

We call this one: girly with an edge.

Earth and Sugar

This beauty combines sweet and savory with pistachio, fig, rosewater, and toasted coconut.

Buttercream Bakery

Talk about tasteful sprinkles, right?

Earth and Sugar

For understated tropical, keep the cake itself simple (buttercream all the way) but decorate with palms, different green fronds, and a few lush Florida-style blooms.

Earth and Sugar

This cake was inspired by a Sonia Delaunay rug and decorated with intricate piping details.

Alana Jones-Mann

The perfect use of all the favorite Millennial colors—pink, mint, and a splash of gold for movement.

Flour & Flourish

This sweet and sprightly coconut lime cake incorporates a fondant marble wrap, handmade wafer paper orchids, and lime ganache.

Blue + Ruby Cake Art

Embrace the tropical vibes with this bright and whimsical island-inspired cake.

Julián Ángel

This cake brings together fiery and cooling tones—just like the balance that occurs in a marriage. Like it says: Sh*t just got real.

Buttercream Bakery

Created for an intimate Cuban-inspired wedding, sugar paste Birds of Paradise and hibiscus give the tropical theme an extra touch of drama.

Kek & Co.

50 shades of...pink.

Buttercream Bakery

This cake's innocent pink stenciled fondant exterior belies the sinful interior of dark chocolate mud. Add fresh seasonal flowers for an extra dose of sweetness.

Blue + Ruby Cake Art