wedding cake

noun

1

: a usually elaborately decorated and tiered cake made for the celebration of a wedding

2

: something (such as a large building) resembling a wedding cake especially in elaborate ornamentation

Examples of wedding cake in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Miles, who insisted that Bellino and Janssen have a wedding cake despite them not being cake lovers, had the honor of serving and cutting the first slice with Mackenna. —Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025

The production and mixing are impressively ornate, a wedding cake that could topple if one note lands out of place. —William Earl, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025

Chocolate Cake with a Mirror Glaze Viewers everywhere can bet the finale is sure to be as drama-filled as Jeremiah's wedding cake request (a two-tier dark chocolate cake with raspberry coulis filling and a mirror glaze, of course). —Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025

The pair wed the following summer, with Edgell preparing the wedding cake, and announced their first child in June 2025. —Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for wedding cake

• overtake
• rattlesnake
• shiitake
• undertake
• wapentake
• ache
• ake
• bake
• brake
• break
• craik
• crake