basketweave wedding cakes

Wedding Cake with Crystallized Flowers

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Traci

Everything is coming up roses (and violets, pansies, lavender, and cornflowers) with this stunning wedding cake!

I absolutely love this cake because it elegantly screams ‘spring!’ and because those are real flowers that have been crystallized with sugar.

The three-tier cake is frosted with buttercream icing that was piped on to resemble a basket weave – so the cake actually looks like baskets full of fresh flowers. Read More

Summer in December: Basketweave Strawberry Cake

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Brooke

I’m in a contrary state of mind.

We are about to launch into the week before Christmas, and so, of course, Christen and I both have some delighful, sugar-plummy cakes planned for you. So what better way to cleanse your brain palate than to offer you something completely off the wall today?

Yes. It’s July in December.

I mean, we do the opposite all the time, right? Christmas in July and all that? Well, here’s a look at the summeriest thing I could find: basketweave and strawberries, trimmed with ivy, with Read More