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Floral Wedding Cakes

 

What’s not to love about a floral wedding cake? The trend to decorate cakes with flowers, whether real or gum paste, really became all the rage during the 1980s, when Martha Stewart showed us all how wrong we’d been doing weddings up to that point. Gone suddenly were the little bride and groom figurines made of porcelain or plastic that stood proudly atop cakes. Replacing them were mounds and cascades and accents of flowers of all shapes, sizes, and hues. The trend may have died down to some extent; today, we’re as apt to see a bride and groom cake topper – or a pair of birds or bicycles, or anything else the couple might fancy – as flowers. But flowers have not lost favor completely. In fact, florists are still busy preparing floral toppers for cakes that match the bride’s color palette and bouquet. Likewise, bakers are kept busy crafting handmade, sugar or gum paste flowers, or at the very least, custom coloring store bought gum paste creations to offset their beautiful cakes. There are a couple of points to remember when choosing to trim your cake with fresh flowers. First, make sure that the bloom you’d like to use is NOT poisonous. Wouldn’t you hate to send people to the hospital because they ingested a piece of your cake that had ivy on it? And secondly, if at all possible, ask your florist for pesticide-free blooms. Bug killing chemicals = not tasty. And finally, if it’s gum or sugar paste flowers that you’re after, remind guests that, although they are technically edible, it’s probably not very tasty or a good idea. If you want edible decorations, you should probably stick with real or marzipan fruit.

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White Wedding Cake with Ruching to Match the Bride’s Dress

dress ruching cake

So, I’m clearly inspired to keep the white wedding cake love going for a day or two longer…

Check out this incredible cake by the Intricate Icings.  I was floored when I saw the artistry here…they have actually succeeded in making fondant behave like fabric!  In this case, the bride sent in a picture of her dress as inspiration, and Read More

 
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White Wedding Cake with Pink Peonies

Addy B Pink Peony White Cake

Blame it on the heat, or possibly overstimulation.  But lately, I’ve been craving posts about white wedding cakes.

Color is fun, color is fab, and color will probably be the star of my next post.  But the other day, as I was writing a guest post for another loverly blog (more about that later!), I began to search our catalog of cakes for a white cake.  And I couldn’t find one.

Now, there’s a lot of talk out there about “boring white wedding cakes.”  I suppose that, if you’re a baker and you’re stuck making white cake after white cake, that would get a little, you know, mind-numbing.  But sometimes, Read More

 
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Cake Topper Friday: Traditional White Cake with Flower Topper

flower topper

Sometimes you have to stick with a classic.  Like this gorgeous white cake with buttercream icing.  This cake features one of my favorite trends for 2011…the double height tier!  The tiers are decorated with beautiful piped icing in a swag motif.  What really takes this cake from nice to wonderful is that gorgeous flower topper!  On Cake Topper Friday Read More

 
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Black and White Cake

Black and White Cake

We’ve talked about black wedding cakes here on A Wedding Cake Blog before, and I have a confession to make:  I didn’t love the idea.  Just thinking about all.  that.  dye.  Well, it didn’t set well with me.

But here, in my humble girly girl opinion, is the perfect black and white cake for the bride who craves the drama that the stark contrast of this combo brings, but feels the same way I do about the over zealous application of food coloring.  Rather than getting the “black” part of the equation from Read More

 
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Ruffles, Ruffles, and More Ruffles!

ruffleflowers

I’m a bit ruffle obsessed. That’s for certain. Add a little bit of light pink in the shape of a ruffly flower and I am dead from sheer girly indulgence.

Okay, so I know ruffles are NOT for everyone. I learned this the hard way when in Second Grade I wore a Ruffly Pink Flower Girl Dress to school just about every other day for three months. My mother “sent it away to be dry-cleaned” for about six weeks…ahem. By the time it came back it was the dead of winter and even my love for ruffles could not conquer my cold knees. True story, I wore it for my 2nd grade class picture…I should find it and scan it on here so you’ll believe me.

This cake is all the girly goodness that my Pink Ruffle Dress once was. A three tiered stacked round cake covered in flawless white fondant and adorned with row after row of fondant ruffles. The time and the precision this bad boy must have taken are unimaginable

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Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for July 31, 2011

chelsea_clinton_gluten_free_wedding_cake

And so it continues.  The hot hotness of summer, I mean.

Vacation is over and school’s looming up before us here (we go back August 15 in these parts.  Ugh.)  It’s extremely hard to school supply shop when you’d rather be at the beach, yes?  Maybe someone needs to make some cute little plaid bikinis with matching cardigan cover ups.  And we can have apple tartlets in lieu of, well, you know.  So who’s gonna make the kiddoes go back to school if Mama doesn’t want to?

But I digress.

I have an AWESOME visit with my best friend coming up, and more wedding pretty Read More

 
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Pink Swirl Cake

pink swirls

You may have heard a whisper of my love for all things including Pink Gerbera Daisies.  If I am Jerry Maguire than Gerbera Daisies are my Renee Zellweger.  You know, back when she could completely open her eye lids.  They complete me.

Side note, SO many once good but Read More

 
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Wedding Cake Trends for 2011

Buttoned Cake

So seven months into 2011 I think it’s time we talk trends baby. Cake trends that is. Because let’s face it..I am always behind on clothing trends. I try so hard but oh my goodness how do I love a pony-tail and cardigans..I am so boring that way.  However, cake trends?  I think I got it.

Since I’ve been blogging about wedding cakes five days a week for the last seven months I have begun to take notice of the good, the awesome, and the coveted of wedding cake designs. There are lots of fun options that you can do with your wedding cake. 2011 has definitely been a wedding season of sweet, pretty, and creative. Here are just a few things that I am digging as we make our way into the last five months of 2011.

Double It Up

Photo Courtesy of The Knot

The Double Height Tier is probably my favorite trend this year.  It’s a pretty simple concept: take a simple three-tier round cake and add height to one of the tiers.  It gives the cake height and an asymmetrical quality that takes it from a normal cake to a spectacular one.   Traditionally a cake tier is anywhere from 3-4 inches tall.  To achieve the double height the baker simply adds Read More

 
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Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for July 24, 2011

Orange with Accents Cake

Hiya!

So…how are you keeping cool during this scorcher of a summer?  We’re fanning and heading to the beach and drinking plenty of iced tea.  And while summer is scorching the rest of you, it’s just plain ole’ normal hot here in Florida.

But the heat hasn’t stopped the deliciousness that is a summer full of weddings.  We’ve seen some Read More

 
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Champagne Wedding Cake

champagne wedding cake

Some cakes are stunning in their detail.  Some are breathtaking in the display of the baker’s skill.  And some are flat out…adorable.

This, Ladies and Gentleman, is an adorable cake.

The label adorable is by no means slander.  It’s perfect in every detail.  Not a wrinkle in the fondant.  Not a twinkle out of place in the fountain-y, sparkly, headdress-y cake topper.  It really is perfect. 

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