Baseball Grooms Cake
I will admit that I have no idea who is in the World Series. I am aware that it is happening because it’s on my television every night and has pushed my beloved Glee! and The New Girl back to November 1st..but I digress. Not a sports girl. I am so not a sports girl I actually had to ask my husband if the “baseball one was called the World Series or the Super Bowl”. That’s how awesome I am.
However, if you put sports into edible cake..I’m all about it! Just like this grooms cake which is a bat and ball combo. I don’t know the back story on this couple or this cake or anything–but doesn’t it look like it’s a guitar as well? I am not a music girl. In fact I am about 75 times more a sport girl than an instrument girl..so who knows really. I could get all technical here and tell you how I think the bat looks like the “stringy thingys” and how that “little black thingy at the bottom looks like the thing on the Guitar Hero guitars that makes you get more points”. Jealous of my guitar knowledge?
What do you think? Is this a baseball/guitar cake or am I just crazy?
Strawberry Cake
Summer is gone and Fall is here. Personally, I adore every single second of Fall. I think it’s the only season of the year I don’t get sick of. I am dying for summer and beach trips in April but by July I am sweating my baguettes off and ready for it to be over. In November I am anticipating the crisp weather and Christmas ambiance, but by the time January rolls around I am ready for green grass and capri pants. I’m fickle. What can I say.
The one thing I do miss about Spring & Summer year round is the strawberries. Oh yes. I am a strawberry girl. I could get them any day on anything. By themselves? Done. In a salad? Yum. Covered in chocolate? Yes! Please! Now!
On a cake? Yes. Mixed with buttercream? Oh my. I can’t help myself. Which is why this strawberry iced cake caught my eye. It apparently caught the eye of some teeny tiny wedding guest who couldn’t resist putting their fingers in that icing. I’m with ya’ kid. I wouldn’t be able to control myself either.
Cupcake Dress
So don’t you remember that time that you got all gussied up and went out and wore a 600 pound dress made of cake? Oh you don’t.
Me either. But Melissa of Cupcakes OMG! does..in fact she did it not too long ago.
The cake was made by Katelyn Selin, Kait Ingram and Sandrea Park Welch at the Taste of Charleston’s Iron Chef’s Competition. They used forty vanilla and red-velvet sheet cakes and 190 pounds of buttercream. Oh my. Who got to lick that bowl?
The fact that this was in Charleston, which is about an hour and a half from my house, makes me sad I missed this. How often to do get to see a life size cupcake with a human in it? Never. That’s how often. If you have..well then I think I need to hang out with you more often. Send me an e-mail. I’ll send you my phone number and we’ll text and become BFF’s.
You can check out Melissa’s entire blog post with tons and tons of pictures here. And yup, she got to eat her dress. Boom.
Photography by Michelle Marie Photography
Destination Wedding: The Greenbrier
Thinking about a destination wedding? Have you ever thought about…West Virginia?
No. Wait. Listen.
I’m from West Virginia. And if you’ve never been to the Mountain State, then you don’t know what you’re missing.
There are some truly amazingly beautiful venues and sites all over the state, from Wheeling in the north, to the Blennerhassett Hotel in Read More
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Miniature 3D Wedding Cake
What do you do when you’re having a small wedding, or if you’re eloping? Do you forego the cake altogether? Well, you don’t have to.
I thought this cake was adorable at first glance. I think my favorite thing about it is the “mixed media.” The artist paints a floral motif, but then pipes some stems in a matching green for emphasis. She paints flowers, but then affixes fondant flowers as well. The combination of the painting and the piping and fondant work Read More
Cake Topper Friday:: Runaway Groom Cake Topper
I have a secret. For months I have avoided photos of perfectly good cakes for one reason. Because they have a Runaway Groom Cake Topper.
I really am not a fan of these. I’ve been keeping it in for months and decided to finally talk about this today. Because after all it just is a cake topper. It is actually meant to be a joke. I assume that if a bride felt that she really needed to drag her man down the aisle she probably wouldn’t be marrying him. Right? Or, do I put too much faith in society?
To me this isn’t funny. I guess I just don’t get it. Why would people want this on their cake? I had a friend who dated her boyfriend for ten years. Yes, ten. Sure by the time they finally walked down the aisle we made many jokes about how long it took and at the rehearsal dinner we all said the word finally about six hundred times. However, if she had put this on her cake I would probably think it was a little bit sad.
Maybe my view is tainted because the only woman I’ve ever seen put this on her wedding cake (in real life) was actually a girl who literally had to convince her husband to marry her. He’s miserable today.
Maybe now that I’ve gotten this off my chest I’ll be able to post those gorgeous cakes that I see with this topper on it instead of groaning. Loudly.
I’m not trying to be Negative Nancy or the end all be all of Wedding Cake Toppers. It’s a personal choice and I say if you love this topper and you think it’s hilarious by all means get your Runaway Groom on girlfriend! But please tell me why.
Are you with me? Do you think this topper is kind of obnoxious? Or do you love it and think it’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen.
Beauty and the Beast Cake
Did you hear the news? Due to the success of the Lion King 3-D in theaters last month Disney will be re-releasing several Disney classics in 3-D including my favorites The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
Oh yes. In honor of that news I think we need a Beauty and the Beast inspired cake..don’t you? The answer is yes. Yes you do.
Check out the awesomness that is this cake. Let’s start with the obvious..the incredible fondant work. The first tier is set to look like Belle’s village in France. The second tier features realistic portrays of Beauty and the Beast characters such as Cogsworth, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and Chip. The top tier and the topper showcase and immaculate replica of Belle and her Beast. Seriously, replicating Disney characters is NOT something that can be done easily. In fact I’ve seen a lot of cakes..well..flop in this area. The BEST part of the cake is probably what your eye was drawn to first. The rose in the vase that separates the second and third tier. One, how do people think of these things. That is super creative. Two, it amazing and gives the cake such great height. I would really love to know how exactly that rose is floating in there.
I’m in love.
Retro Bubble Cake
I love it when a cake can look cool AND gorgeous. The two actually don’t go together as much as you might think. Cool and unique cakes are usually just that..cool and unique. Very rarely does a cool and unique cake take your breath away like this one does.
I love this cake made by The Pastry Studio in Daytona Beach, Fl. This cake was actually used as a birthday cake, however, I think it could transition from birthday to wedding seamlessly. This cake is a two tiered round cake covered in light blue fondant. The bubbles come in blue, yellow and purple and are also made from fondant. I love how to circles vary is size to add a lot of interest to the cake. My favorite part of this cake is the single purple flower. It is just gorgeous and really takes this cake from great to outstanding.
Sweet and Clean White Cake
It’s been awhile since I’ve featured a classic white cake. I have no idea why to be honest. I guess I just post in phases.
This cake is just like the title says…sweet and clean. In fact if wedding cakes start making appearances in laundry detergent commercials this one would be a front runner. Doesn’t the look if it just make you think of a cool, crisp spring day with the sun shining and a slight breeze?
Is that just me? I know it’s a little odd to equate laundry detergent commercials to wedding cake but it is what it is. This cake is a clean three tiered square cake covered in crisp white fondant. There is a light blue stripe around each base. I actually just painted me bedroom a color similar to this and it makes me feel like I am at the beach. Of course, the Gerber Daisies are what do it for me.
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Smarties Cake
True story. When I took my first trip to Europe I was 15 and my friend Brett begged me to bring him back some Smarties. At first I scoffed at his request. He could go down to the store and buy his own Smarties. It wasn’t until later that he explained that Smarties and Smarties were different. American Smarties are those round little things made from nothing but pure sugar. European Smarties are actually flat round chocolates in a candy coated shell. Think M&M’s but double the size. I ate nothing but Smarties the entire two weeks I was in Europe..and maybe some pasta in Italy. I think all I remember is the Smarties. I was 15 I knew nothing of the joys of pasta covered in cheese and butter. I could also spend two weeks eating nothing but Smarties and it wouldn’t show up on my thighs a week later.
Imagine my happiness when I found this cake covered entirely in Smarties. It’s almost channeling the Sixlet covered cake that I featured a few weeks ago. Perhaps it’s my love of candy covered cake or nostalgia for my youth that has my heart thumping when I first laid eyes on this beauty.
What do you think? Do you love cake covered in candy? Have you ever had Smarties? Did it change your life? Do you still wish you had the metabolism of a 15 year old?
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