Cake Trends Through the Years
A living archive of the cake trends, predictions, fads and techniques Anges de Sucre has covered since 2017. We keep the original articles live because they show how tastes changed, which ideas disappeared, and which ones became part of modern cake design.
These pieces were written at different moments in the life of the bakery. Dates and opinions are deliberately preserved in context rather than rewritten to pretend they are current.
Annual cake trend forecasts
- Cake Trends 2026: UK Sales Data & Forecast (published 2025)
- Top 10 Most Popular Cake Trends for 2025 (published 2024)
- Top Cake Trends of 2024 (published 2023)
- Top Cake Trends for 2023: What's Hot and What's Not (published 2022)
- Top Cake Trends 2022 (published 2021)
- Birthday Cake Trends 2020
- Birthday Cake Trends of 2017
Flavour trends
Trends, fads and cake culture
- Cake Trends We Love To Hate: Photo Cakes
- The 2023 Viral Trend We Started: Cake Sandwiches
- Cake Sandwiches: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
- Cake Pizzas: A Slice of Genius Delight!?
- Worst Cake Trends of All Time
- Is cake smashing the dumbest cake trend ever?
- Fruity Fads: The Battle Between Birthday Cakes and Fruit Stacks
- 5 Wedding Cake Trends to Avoid
Techniques that became trends
- Burn-Away Cakes: The Hottest Cake Trend in London
- Trendy Cake Sandwiches Recipe
- Fault Line Cake Recipe and Tutorial
What came next?
Some trends lasted a season. Others changed the way cakes are designed and bought. For what we make now, browse our current cake collection or our birthday cakes.