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12 best supermarket wedding cakes from M&S, Waitrose, Sainsbury's & more

From Great British Bake Off star Mary Berry's cake to a nut free option!

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Jayne Walsh
Jayne WalshLifestyle Content Writer
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Wedding costs are on the rise, but one easy place where you can save cash is on your wedding cake. Luckily, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and Sainsbury's offer budget-friendly options that are just as nice as the expensive made-to-order varieties.

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Since weddings were put on hold, supermarkets have gradually reintroduced their wedding cake options. So, if you're after a traditional fruit cake, decorate your own style cake or something ornate or chocolatey, we have picked our favourites. Even former Great British Bake Off star Mary Berry has created a beautiful cake exclusively for Tesco!

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Floral wedding cakes

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Flower Festival Tulip Cake (Serves 24), £45, M&S

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Four delicious layers of sponge, filled and covered with vanilla buttercream, decorated with beautiful hand-piped buttercream flowers and leaves. One happy customer review says: "A beautiful cake - decorations are lovely and it tasted just as good as it looked."

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Lemon, Raspberry & Rose Triple Layer Cake (Serves 20), £25, Waitrose

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This lemon sponge cake is filled with layers of raspberry jam and rose-flavour buttercream, decorated with rose flavour buttercream and freeze-dried raspberry pieces. It is designed and made exclusively for Waitrose & Partners by the renowned Fiona Cairns bakery.

Unique wedding cakes

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Personalised Butterfly Cascade Cake (Serves 28), £40, M&S

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Hearts will be set aflutter with this two-tier sponge filled with buttercream and raspberry jam, covered with soft icing and decorated with delicate edible rice paper butterflies. Plus it can be iced with a message of your choice.

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Extra Large Cookies & Cream Cake (Serves 32), £45, M&S

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This decadent four-layer cookie cake is filled with soft buttercream and topped with a generous dark drizzle, buttercream and cookie-shaped chocolates. Sure to appeal to every guest!

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Five Tier Cheese Cake (weighs 6.5 kg), £150, Waitrose

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This exciting collection of five cheeseboard cheeses comes ready to stack for a savoury cake. Perfect for weddings, dinner parties or family celebrations, the cheeses include: Cornish Yarg, Delice de Bourgogne, a Colston Bassett Blue StiltonRing, Chaource and Coeur du Berry Heart. Decorate your cake with dried and fresh fruit, figs, dried and fresh herbs and flowers.

Cakes for smaller weddings

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True Love Cake (Serves 14), £30, M&S

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This pretty cake is smaller but still special. Carefully created with love, this light four-tier sponge cake is delicious. Carefully hand finished with pink vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam it is hand decorated and topped with white chocolate hearts.

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Chocolate & Caramel Millionaire Cake (Serves 12) £16.05, Ocado

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A chocolate lover's dream: Triple-layer chocolate sponge cake filled with caramel-flavoured buttercream and milk chocolate shortcake biscuit balls. It is topped with milk chocolate decorations, fudge pieces, milk chocolate malted balls and a caramel drizzle...

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Taste the Difference - Rose Bouquet Madeira Cake (Serves 16), £14, Sainsbury's

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This triple-layer Madeira cake from Sainsbury's popular Taste the Difference range is filled with raspberry jam, and covered with buttercream and decorated with coloured frostings and edible decorations.

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Decorate your own wedding cake

a plain two tier cake

The perfect blank canvas for a special occasion. Light and fluffy madeira sponge, generously filled and lightly masked with vanilla buttercream for a simple and elegant visual. The cake comes in two parts for easy transport and will feed up to 36 people!

Vanilla Two Tier Naked Cake (Serves 36), £45, M&S

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Celebration Cake (Serves 34), £40, Waitrose

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Here is an opportunity to personalise your wedding cake. Enjoy a vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam filling, sandwiched between golden sponge. Finally, the cake is covered in soft white icing and decorated with sugar-paste flowers and sugar pearls. These cakes come finished with your choice of silver, gold or red ribbons.

A nut-free wedding cake

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Occasion Fruit Celebration Cake (Serves 34), £17, ASDA

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This rare find is a large fruit cake which is suitable for vegetarians and is nut-free. The cake is packed with sultanas, glacé cherries and candied citrus peel, then covered with marzipan and plain icing - a blank canvas for getting creative.

Impressively for a budget cake, it contains no artificial colours, flavours or hydrogenated fat.

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Mary Berry's peony rose cake

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Mary Berry's Peony Rose Cake (Serves 16), £13, Tesco

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Former Great British Bake Off presenter and baker Mary Berry has created this beautiful cake exclusively for Tesco. She says: "My triple-layered soft madeira cake with raspberry jam and buttercream, covered with soft icing and beautifully finished with a painted peony rose."

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