The dessert is one of the few parts of a wedding everyone remembers, because it is one of the few parts everyone tastes. More couples in the city are skipping the formal tiered cake, or pairing it with something far more talked-about: a dessert table built around the viral trilece. This is our guide to wedding dessert catering in Amsterdam, what works, how it comes together, and how to plan yours.
We are Ruma (formerly De Beste Lekkernij), a Mediterranean bakery in the Nine Streets, and the bakery behind the trilece that has pulled over 600 million views. For a wedding, that is a centrepiece guests photograph and talk about long after the day.
Two ways to do wedding dessert
1. The dessert table
A styled spread guests graze through across the evening, built around a hero like trilece and filled out with a variety of sweets. It suits relaxed, modern weddings and keeps people coming back through the night. More on the format in our dessert table catering guide.
2. The showpiece plus a spread
Keep a cake for the cutting moment, then surround it with trays of trilece, tres leches, baklava and cannoli for everyone to enjoy. You get the tradition and the talking point.
What we bring to a wedding
The viral trilece
Soft, cold, caramel-topped three-milk cake in rotating flavours such as classic, pistachio, raspberry and Lotus. It is elegant, it photographs beautifully, and it tastes even better than it looks, which matters when every guest has a fork in hand. See what trilece is.
Tres leches and cakes
A second soaked-sponge option with cream and fruit, to broaden the table. For more cake ideas, see our best cakes in Amsterdam guide.
Baklava, cannoli and Turkish sweets
Pistachio baklava, crisp filled cannoli including our Dubai-style pistachio, and boxes of lokum add crisp, nutty contrast and travel beautifully. They also double as favours guests can take home.
How wedding dessert catering works
- Share your day. Date, venue, guest numbers, the style of the wedding, and any dietary needs.
- We design the spread. A hero, a balanced mix, and quantities sized to your guest list, styled to suit the day.
- We bake and deliver. Everything made fresh close to the date and delivered to your Amsterdam venue.
- You celebrate. We handle the sweet, you enjoy the day.
Start with our catering enquiry and include your wedding date and venue so we can check availability early.
Planning tips for wedding desserts
- Book early. Wedding-season weekends fill up well ahead, so enquire as soon as you have a date.
- Offer range. A mix of soft, crisp, nutty and fruity means every guest finds something.
- Think favours. Boxed baklava or lokum make elegant take-home gifts.
- Tell us about dietary needs. Share allergies and preferences up front so we can plan inclusively.
Trilece as a wedding centrepiece
Couples increasingly want a dessert that feels personal rather than a default tiered cake, and trilece fits that brief beautifully. It is elegant without being fussy, it photographs as well as anything on the day, and crucially it tastes light enough that guests actually finish it after a big meal. You can have it as the sole centrepiece, presented as a larger cake for the cutting moment, or as the hero of a wider dessert table. Its rotating flavours, pistachio, raspberry, caramel and more, also let you match the palette of your day, which is a small touch that photographs well.
Quantities, timing and delivery
For weddings we plan around your final guest count, typically three to four dessert pieces per guest if dessert is a spread rather than a single cake. Everything is baked fresh as close to the day as possible, because milk cakes are at their best within a day of soaking. We deliver to venues across Amsterdam and the surrounding area, and we will coordinate timing with you and your venue so the desserts arrive cool, fresh and ready to display. The earlier you confirm the date, the more smoothly all of this slots into your wider wedding planning.
Desserts that double as wedding favours
A practical and elegant trick: let some of the dessert table work twice. Boxed pistachio baklava or little parcels of lokum make beautiful take-home favours, so guests leave with something instead of you ordering separate gifts. It is generous, it suits the Mediterranean theme, and it travels. Mention it when you enquire and we will factor the quantities and packaging into the plan. For more on building the wider spread, see our dessert table catering guide and our best cakes in Amsterdam roundup.
Let's plan your wedding desserts
We are Ruma, Herenstraat 24A, in the Nine Streets. Tell us your wedding date, venue and guest count through our catering enquiry, and we will design a dessert spread your guests will remember. For office and brand events, see our corporate event catering guide.