2022’s Hottest Cake Trends

Paris Baguette’s Yvette Castillo dishes on what cake trends to watch for this year.To help us wrap our mind around what cake trends are hot and what are not, we turned to an expert: Yvette Castillo, Senior Research & Development Manager at Paris Baguette. Castillo not only oversees all the exhilarating cake designs for the bakery cafés across the U.S., but also has a long history of cake decorating in her own right. According to Castillo, the below are the buzzed-about new cake trends for 2022. 

1. Chocolate Showpieces“These have exploded in popularity the last year, especially because of the Netflix show 'School of Chocolate.' On cakes, chocolate showpieces can either take the form of a single chocolate piece or even something as experimental as chocolate ice sculptures on top of cakes,” says Castillo.  “People are consistently putting unique chocolate designs as cake toppers on their cake these days. A lot of the time they’ll maybe even use white chocolate to…