24 Winter Wedding Cake Ideas

The cherry on top of your wedding day is our 24 winter wedding cake ideas! We’ve put together the most popular winter wedding cake designs and styles, the yummiest winter flavour combinations, and winter cake decor ideas, which include winter berries, pinecones, snowflakes and unique cake toppers! We truly have it all. Plus, we asked our Recommended Suppliers for some top tips in coordinating your cake with your wedding theme! Wintertime is full of so many wonderful things. Christmas, New Year’s, snow and just a feeling of magic!

24 of the best winter wedding cakes from Rock My Wedding

POPULAR Winter WEDDING CAKE STYLES

What are the most popular winter wedding cake designs? Wedding cakes are often used as decor by couples who want their cake to reflect the theme, colour scheme, and season of their day! This is why seasonal colour palettes are essential. The most popular winter wedding cakes include shades of white, gold, silver, red and blue. It's the time for extra sparkle and ‘wow’ factors. Think metallic sugar pearls and edible gold leaf. With winter wedding cakes, it’s all about nailing that ethereal and magical vibe. Recommended Supplier, The Painter’s Pantry, loves using delicate wafer paper lace as it catches all the low winter light. The semi-naked look is still very popular, even through the winter according to Recommended Supplier, Red Velvet Bakery.  Plain white fondant cakes with winter flowers in colours such as deep red roses with some winter foilage look fabulous at this time of year. Adding some wedding bows is a great idea too! Your cake will literally look like a Christmas present! 

Elegant Winter WEDDING CAKES WITH white ICING

THE BEST WEDDING CAKE FLAVOURS FOR Winter WEDDINGS

Wintertime is all about hazelnut, peppermint, gingerbread, s’mores, cranberry, and other festive flavours, so why not embrace those seasonal flavourings in your wedding cake? Recommended Supplier, The Painter’s Pantry, loves making anything spiced with apple and caramel! Yum! Recommended Supplier, Emma Page Cakes London, makes cakes that are all decorated with white chocolate ganache and filled inside with Italian meringue buttercream, which is silky smooth and not too sweet! While Recommended Supplier, Bonita Bakes, says their most popular flavours are carrot cake with either orange blossom Italian buttercream filling or blueberry preserve and elderflower Italian buttercream AND a chocolate gingerbread with a sumptuous vanilla bean Italian buttercream. Just divine! Recommended Supplier, Claire Owen Cakes, makes a classic chocolate Guinness cake that sounds incredible.

Winter WEDDING CAKE TOPPERS

SEASONAL COLOUR PALETTE AND Winter Cake DECORations

For us, a cake isn't complete without some decor, whether that be flowers, a cake topper, fruit and more. Cake toppers could show off your and your beau's initials, and lyrics from your favourite song, or you could have miniature versions of you made in icing! Popular fruit decorations for winter include lots of winter berries! Popular winter wedding flowers include Roses, Anemones, Ranunculus, Hellebore, Camellia, Poinsettia, Cyclamen, Crocus, Snowdrops, Paperwhite Narcissus and more! We also love the use of pinecones, mini evergreens, and snowflakes! You might want to bring in the winter season through festive Christmas decor, embellished bridesmaid dresses and other sparkly wedding inspiration. 

Christmas Winter WEDDING CAKES WITH Pinecones and Berries 

TOP TIPS ON COORDINATING YOUR WEDDING CAKE WITH YOUR THEME

Coordination between your wedding cake and the overall theme can be achieved with colour, texture or mirroring little details featured in other parts of your wedding. For example, you can use your initials monogrammed on your invitations and put them onto your cake. Try to give your wedding cake supplier as much info about the details you’d like to pick out, whether it’s lace from your wedding dress or something more abstract that makes a statement. Go into colour schemes, bring along samples or photos of things you've already sorted for your wedding (your venue, stationery and outfits etc.). 

SIMPLE winter WEDDING CAKES

WHAT WEDDING CAKE SUPPLIERS WISH YOU KNEW ABOUT CAKES

Our Recommended Cake Suppliers have said that it’s ok to not know the sort of cake design you’d like! Cake making is not a prescriptive service and you and your chosen supplier will likely discuss your delicious design together. Your cake maker is there to guide you and will often provide digital mock-ups to help you achieve the feel and theme you’re looking for. As long as you have your wedding date and venue booked, you can start booking your other suppliers as soon as you’d like. Our cake makers said, the sooner, the better! Not only because your dream cake maker might get booked up, but also because they’ll have more time to work with you to get the ultimate wedding cake. 

Have your cake and eat it too! These winter wedding cakes are too good to resist

Decided on your winter wedding cake? Now you’ll want a stunning tablescape to sit your beautiful cake on! Here are the best Christmas table decorations. If you’re looking for some winter inspiration in general we’ve got you covered with these festive winter wedding ideas, Christmas wedding favours and winter wedding flowers!