2026: A Performative Wedding Cake Experience – But Make It Unique
Italian Wedding Cake
In 2025, we saw couples opting for trending wedding cakes rather than customized cakes. The wedding cake trend last year in Malaysia is the Italian Millefoglie (mee-leh-FO-lee-eh), meaning a thousand layers. Traditionally made from layers puff pastry with cream in between, neatly topped with strawberries and sprinkled with icing sugar.
The variation in Malaysia is that it is cake based instead of puff pastry, with different fruits from strawberries, blueberries, raspberries to green grapes. The attraction stems from the cake being an interactive centrepiece with couples finishing off the cake assembling process by placing the berries and dusting the sugar.
Another name for this is the Table Cake. If the cake table is 20 inch diameter, the cake sould be close to the size of the table. The bigger the table, the more impressive the cake will be. Will this wedding cake trend continue throughout 2026? We are already seeing the smaller versions of this cake available in 6 and 8 inch sizes.
Long Sheet Cake
The long sheet cake is a single tier rectangle shaped and narrow long cake. Sheet cakes are rectangle shaped cakes. They are iced but undecorated and kept behind the scene, for portioning to be done in the kitchen, meanwhile the elaborately decorated wedding cake on stage is a dummy cake.
The long sheet cakes are just like sheet cakes but must be exceptionally loooong, length wise in relation to width, and sufficiently decorated to be showcased infront. I would suggest 150 minimum servings for a long sheet cake. A short sheet cake would look like a coffin (context taken from ramblings of netizens).
Compared to Italian wedding cake, long sheet cakes are more flexible. It can be decorated in many ways, whether rustic with fresh fruits and flowers, intricately piped with cream, or covered with fondant drapes or textured with wafer paper.
The composition of the cake is a dream. Any cake base is suitable with fillings from fresh fruits to compote, gel or ganache, mixed and match with a wide choice of icing from fresh cream, buttercream, meringue and pastry cream variations (Diplomat, Mousseline, Chiboust). So yummy and no worry of having to stack weight on top, unlike tiered cakes.
Tall Wedding Cake
If single tier is not your style, the other end of the spectrum is tall wedding cakes.
Tall wedding cakes are all about making a statement! Impress guests with the choice of timeless, classic and uniquely crafted wedding cake designs. Elegant tall wedding cakes reflect sophistication in wedding couple choices and complementing the venue theme.
Schedule an appointment with your chosen wedding cake Baker to discuss on design possibilities and take advantage of the Cake Tasting experience provided only for wedding couples. Align your cake expectations with your Baker’s expertise. Tall wedding cakes are definitely not the average “last minute” cake. It is a once in a life time experience.
Conclusion
Of the three different kinds of wedding cakes above, my specialty is Tall Wedding Cake. However, I also love the creative possibilities of Long Sheet Cake. As for Italian Wedding Cake, I would give it a miss.
A look back at my 2025 Wedding Catering Trends article, there are so many more new vendors within this 12 month period that it is almost scary. Please engage a Wedding Planner, to be able to answer your questions and concerns so that wise decisions can be made.
