22 wedding cakes that don’t look like wedding cakes

I like doing cake round-ups if you haven't noticed. I've done groom's cakes, cupcake displays and geeky wedding cakes so far. But sometimes some offbeat wedding cakes defy categorization. Here is a round-up of some wedding cakes and don't actually fit the “wedding cake” mold…

Flickr member redowa submitted this pic to or Flickr pool and explained the story behind it, “We had no idea what we wanted in or on the cake. As we were talking with our baker, we started to get excited and wanted to draw… so she found us paper and some Crayola markers. We ended up drawing a perfect day from a kid's sketchbook. The baker dutifully reproduced our ridiculous sketch in fondant.”

Thanks to Velma for submitting this Tiki wedding cake! “Tiki-themed cake, complete with hula bride-and-groom, thatched hut, waterfall, palm trees, and villagers. What more could a girl want?”

You may recal Liz and Austin's infamous steampunked wedding cake, well here's another one from the Artisan Cake Company. The octopus cake topper just kills me.

I just love Offbeat Bride Katie's brownie cake, not to mention those little crocheted cake toppers!

Check out this pretty bird cage shaped cake. Apparently the birds were taken from the motif on their invitation.

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Remember the cake-scape from Dan Das Mann and Karen's wedding in Sonoma?

Oh man, I will NEVER forget this cake from Melissa & Phil's Day of the Dead, heavy metal Mexipalooza wedding, there's nothing freaking like it.

Way back in 2008 Ariel shared an OM NOM NOM-Y good shot from Rachel and Ali's wedding, but what she failed to show you was their awesome domed wedding cake.

This was my first encounter with an offbeat wedding cake. The oversized popcorn and root beer float are actually the cakes from Ragani and Will's wedding.

I am in awe of this cake. And even though it does look like a wedding cake, it still is absolutely incredible. The cake was made by one of the bridesmaids! And it featured white chocolate koi fish, along with celtic knot work.

Flickr member juicyasana added this photo of their cake by Adrienne's. She explains, “The design on the cake and the colors were taken from our invites. There is also an andinkra symbol (the moon and star) in a couple places on the cake. The flavors were lemon, peanut butter chocolate and carrot!”

The cake is a drum! (From Dannette and Nicholas' musically inspired wedding.)

Flickr member neoshoegal described this as “Our Big Chocolate Wedding Cake” I… have no words for this. Wait — is it spitting fire too!? Wow.

Speaking of fire, this cake from Elena & Flo's French castle wedding was a total surprise, thought up on the fly by the whole staff. This chocolate volcano-looking cake has cookies plastered all over it, with little flares going off. It kind of looks like a Dalek to me.

Look at the tree cake! Now look at the cute the little nest cake topper! Thanks to flickr member pocky_pepper for submitting this to the Flickr pool.

I love these wedding cakes from hellishcheeky. I love that this looks like a birthday cake! I also love that it's topped with Han and Leia figurines.

RubyRedRing uploaded this cake to our Flickr pool and explained that it's a “double happiness takeout box (vegan chocolate) and red velvet underneath with frog closures that matched the ones on my dress.” It's pretty stunning.

I love that this cake looks like it's getting hugged by that black ribbon.

And who can forget the giant Peep cake from Emily & Wil's eccentric, candy-coated wedding!

Check out Rhiannon's super unique wedding cake. She explains, “Keeping in with our theme, my amazing mother made this Viking long boat out of fruit cake! It was so unbelievable!”

Offbeat Bride Tribe member Wohlbedacht shared her awesome nut and bolt wedding cake with us.

Uh ma gahd. I SO wish I could have added this to my geeky wedding cake round-up! OBT member Catnippe was lucky enough to have this Mario wedding cake with Peach and Mario on top.

We always love us some more food porn, so if you want to show off your offbeat wedding cake make sure to upload them to the Offbeat Bride Flickr pool or tell us what you did in the comments.

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