Our Top 5 Square Cakes – That Will Blow Your Mind!

Square Cakes with major WOW factor.

Among the contemporary trends catching eyes and dropping jaws right now, these 5 are our absolute favourites! 🏆

Spring vibes! 🌸🌺   

@tortikannushka is a cake designer taking art to a whole new level. Capturing the true sense of springtime and pretty florals, this beautiful, tiered design makes a gorgeous statement. And the best news? You can do this at home!

The base colour makes you think of pale blue skies and fluffy white clouds – amazing! It’s called the velvet effect and uses a technique of spraying cocoa butter mixed with oil-based food colouring onto a freezing cold cake for that soft, textured finish. It even keeps your cake deliciously moist as well. SO clever!

For a fantastic spraying tool, we love this portable airbrush machine for a professional finish! And why not top up your spraying know-how with our friends at Callebaut.

For the crowning glory of delicate petals that add a real touch of sunshine to this breathtaking cake, these dried edible pansy petals are to die for! 💐Pretty and delicate, you can create your own cascading design that everyone will love 💓

Where fashion meets cake! 👜 

This square stunner had us fooled! From any angle it looks like a real Louis Vitton vintage trunk! 🤩Created by Australian cake designer @by.aletso, the spot-on design details are tres chic and add to the total make-believe of this impressive cake.

The combo of fashion and cake has got us excited! So we’re sharing some of the secrets with all you fashionista bakers out there who’ve got your sights set on achieving the same effects.

For that super-smooth base finesse, use Massa Ticino chocolate brown sugar paste. Loved by professionals, it smooths to a perfect finish with a crisp shell.

The famous designer logo can be re-created using these incredible edible metallic paints. With ten colours to choose from in each palette, you can get carried away perfecting these finer details!

Key to the genuine look of this cake is the cool stitching effect. This easy to use PME stitching tool with its three interchangeable wheel heads gives you different designs to choose from so you get the look you want.

To finish off the final trim details, these glamorous, shiny gold sugar ball decorations mimic the golden studs beautifully. Et voila! 👌

The Cupid Lambeth 💘

Insta-famous Cherrell Simpson @chellbells_cakes shows us there’s no such thing as too extreme when it comes to design. And we agree that more is more!

We’re completely love-struck with this OTT cake. And to really show it off in all its pink and gold show-stopping glory, @chellbells_cakes presents it on this slim, matt white cake board drum – a match made in heaven! 😇

For full-on colour, pink is the one! To achieve such eye-poppingly rich and vibrant results, @chellbells_cakes uses Colour Mill colours in Burgundy, Rose and Blush. The sweetest palette.

Any self-respecting Lambeth cake indulges in lots and lots of piping. The French Star nozzle is dreamy – perfect for creating swags, rosettes, flowers and shells with its slightly grooved texture. Check out Piping Paradise to make your own sensational designs!

Then it’s time for the decor – adding all things bling and being EXTRA! How about these Super Streusel mini chocolate balls gold glow sugar sprinkles. Filled with chocolate, they’re delicate, crisp, and add a special touch!

Floral Buttercream   

Master of the concrete effect buttercream finish is @aliceandrosa. And their captivating Floral Buttercream cake shows off piping and carving that’s SO inspirational it’s bringing out the inner artist in us all! 

These freehand, and ever-so-fashionable techniques are so much fun and give you brilliant options for your own unique patterns and designs.

For stand-out presentation, the trending grey really pops on this matt black premium square cake board. As part of the new ‘slim’ range of cake drums, it’s the ultimate platform that bold cakes deserve.

Who knew the concrete look would work so well on a cake?! Get the look with Colour Mill’s Nude Tones food colourings. Coming in a pack of six neutral tones, you can mix and experiment to get the effect you’re after.

With your cake frosted, it’s time to sharpen things up and get carving. Revolutionising the way you sculpt, shape, texture and embellish, this Sugar Shapers carving tool is literally the cutting edge! Accuracy and confidence will be yours, and its double head design makes things super easy.

The flower design on this sculptural cake by @aliceandrosa is so gorgeous and varied, you can really go to town with your creativity and colour palette. For realistic Flower Petals, Dramatic Ruffles, Drapes, Swags and Bows try this fabulous petal nozzle Specially designed

with openings that are wider at one end and narrower at the other, the tips turn out gracefully curved petals for making into elegant blossoms and buds.

Art Attack  🎨

Thanks to @amys.littlecakery for showing us how contemporary cake meets ART – Jackson Pollock style!

This wildly different and expressive cake art form is so striking. And if you’re after a bit of fun, I mean – it literally involves throwing paint… What are you waiting for?! 😄

Back to black, you can create the same canvas finish like the one by @amys.littlecakery with this matt black edible art paint which dries to be rub-free on all kinds of surfaces for a quick and effective result. For even more drama, go for a matt black cake board drum and get that dark and sultry look. Getting smooth, clean sides and edges to your square cake has never been easier – just reach for this Sprinks stainless steel icing scraper. It comes in three lengths so even perfecting different tier heights in one cake will be a breeze.

Then let loose with your imagination and create something special with these edible metallic art paints by Sweet Sticks. The first of their kind, and designed to enhance the finer details in cake decorating, they come ready to use so there’s no need to mix. Just simply shake and throw! All that bright colour on a black background – WOW 🌈

We’re obsessed with the design genius of @amys.littlecakery using bubble-like clusters of our different sized and coloured sphere ball decorating toppers!

All these cakes pack such a punch, but as we’ve shown they don’t have to be hard to make! We can’t wait to see YOUR boxy designs 🤩