This artisanal bakery with locations in midtown and Leslieville is known for its award-winning cakes in modern, vintage, and classic elegant styles, with round or square tiers and designs of cascading ruffles, strings of pearls, and multiple Chanel-inspired options. These start at a grand, and custom cakes start at two grand.

This College St. bakery is home to the first-ever Canadians on Food Network Challenge. They've built a reputation for fun wedding cakes that can be decorated to look like marble, watercolour, or geodes, though many opt for those bursting with colourful floral bouquets.

This Dundas West bakery specializes in “naked cakes” scraped of their outer icing to reveal the beautiful layers of flavourful cake underneath, often covered with dripping icing, chocolate shards and other decorations.

The eye-popping cakes from this Avenue Road bakery start at $800 for a custom process that will wind up reflecting your exact desires, whether that means ruffles, black icing, decorative succulents, gold, or glitter. They also do wedding donuts.

This Yorkville bakery has nearly 80 wedding cake designs to choose from, including ones decorated with you and your partner’s initials, lace, feathers, and pearls in pretty much every colour imaginable, in designs ranging from traditional to modern.

Custom cakes from this Liberty Street shop are nothing short of breathtaking, with themes from geodes to exotic countries and decorations like jewels, monograms, ribbons, flowers, and even city buildings. Any couple can get the cake they want here with cakes designed to look like TTC buses, Klingon weapons, birch trees, muddy trucks, or even have it both ways with a cake that’s traditional on one side and decorated with superheroes on the other.

This Dufferin bakery does exquisite custom cakes starting at $1500 decorated with rollercoasters, intensely detailed intricate patterns, feathers, realistic ribbons and bows, black and white images, or even crowns.

This Distillery District bakery can make a gluten-free cake decorated with immaculate sugar or real flowers and available in flavours such as maple walnut, earl grey, chai tea, lavender and banana with frostings and fillings like mango, passionfruit, caramel fleur de sel, coffee and chocolate mint.

The wedding cakes made by this Parkdale bakery are nothing short of masterful. Jaw-droppingly surreal, drapes of cake pull back to reveal miniature rooms, and cakes made to look like tall ships, Victorian-era masterpieces, ornate ballrooms or carriages are hand-painted in fine detail. You have to see these cakes to believe them.