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Home › Recipes › Wedding Cake Trends 2018: The Collaboration

Updated on April 9, 2024 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Wedding Cake Trends 2018: The Collaboration

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The great thing about the hand-painted cake is that it can be over-the-top or understated and sweet. Michelle Sisam of Sweet Deer Hand-Painted Cakes is known for just that! Her paintings are so beautiful, you might not want to eat them!

To incorporate this simple hand-painted style into your event, get inspired! Look for vintage floral posters, old wedding invitations or illustrated patterns that you love and hire an artist that just happens to be a cake decorator to paint them onto your wedding cake.

Michelle creates her beautiful works of art by layering up washes of food coloring and then painting in the final details with a fine-tipped paint brush.

About This Cake:

"Hand-painted cakes I feel will always be an on-trend option for weddings, there being so many subjects, colors, textures and techniques to paint it really is endless. I chose to paint a vibrant fresh rose leaving the background a crisp white to let the brushstrokes of the painting stand out by itself. Flowers bring so much beauty to weddings and a classic rose or florals in general are a very popular choice at the moment."

Michelle Sisam is the cake artist behind Sweet Deer Hand-Painted Cakes. Born and raised in Whakatane, a small country town in New Zealand, Michelle is a qualified chef, sugar artist and illustrator. Michelle brought her two loves of baking and illustration together to create her business of specializing in hand-painted cakes. Michelle is widely recognized for her hand painted cakes and her work has featured in many publications, including numerous wedding magazines, websites and blogs. hand-painted-cake-trend

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm a cake artist and recipe developer, and I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa. I write foolproof recipes that explain why things work, not just how.

I also teach full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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