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Simple Wedding Cakes

 

Sometimes simple says it best. You might choose a simple wedding cake because you prefer a minimalist approach, or because you like you like to stick with the basics when it comes to cake, or even because you are interested in showcasing a particularly fancy flower or cake topper, simple wedding cakes never go out of style. The basic, stacked, white wedding cake, frosted in a smooth coating of buttercream or covered in a snowy blanket of fondant, may hide beautiful flavors and colors beneath its exterior – the best of both worlds. Or maybe you and your groom prefer the traditional “white cake, white frosting” approach – or “chocolate cake, chocolate frosting” – after all, simple doesn’t necessarily mean traditional. On the other hand, a simple cake may be the perfect way to showcase a special caketopper or flower that has personal meaning for you. A topper that shows your style or a hobby that you and future hubby share becomes all the more visible when it doesn’t need to compete with a fancy cake. Maybe you have a family heirloom that can nestle atop your cake. Alternatively, some dazzling orchids or floppy peonies may be all the statement that you need to make. A simple cake need not be boring, after all.

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Starfish Wedding Cake

Starfish Wedding Cake

It’s beachy, and it’s sea glass blue and green.  That makes it perfect.

Now, while I wouldn’t put actual starfish on a wedding cake, these gumpaste buddies are just the thing.  The cool colors – all greens and blues and hues in between – are some of my favorite, evoking water and calm…two things that speak to me in soft, soothing tones. The wonky ginormous bottom layer – is triple height the new Read More

 
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Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for August 26, 2012

Cake cutter

Hi There!

Oh my, but the autumn bug has officially bitten in this household!  Oh, sure.  There’s some summer fun left here, and we’re still wearing shorts and all, but it’s actually been, well, NOT hotter than the hinges of Read More

 
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Rustic Apple Wedding Cake

Rustic Apple Wedding Cake

I’m feelin’ fall, y’all.

Blame it on all the back to school pics.  My sweet girl went back last week, but just about everyone in my circle – far and wide – have seen their kids off to the school bus by this point.  And so begins the yearning for crisp, cool weather that never comes where I live.

Well, if I can’t have Read More

 
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Homespun Wedding Cake

Homespun Wedding Cake

Don’t you just want to grab a cup of coffee or a glass of ice cold milk and dig right into this baby?

Lots of cakes that we feature are all about the looks.  And so often, I almost can’t imagine cutting into them because of the hours and hours of work they took to make.  But this cake invites you to get comfortable and cut a big ole’ slab!

If I had to guess (and I do, since I know not who made the cake or what the flavors are) I would say that we have here layers of Read More

 
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Rustic Sweets Table and Pie Pops!

Rustic Sweets Table

Don’t you love when a plan really comes together?

I thought this sweets table was adorable.  Now, I could be missing my mark here, but it doesn’t appear to be highly stylized…in other words, it might be DIY, y’all.  I’m not sure.  But it’s really done well, don’t you think?  From the square of burlap that adorns the table to the lace cafe curtains in the back, it’s just all lovely.  The macarons are a little Read More

 
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Pearl Encrusted Wedding Cake with Monogram

Pearl Encrusted Wedding Cake with Monogram

Oh. My. Pearls.

On the heels of Julia Child’s 100th birthday last week, I’ve been in love all over again with pearls.  They are ALWAYS my first choice, the thing I gravitate towards in the case. And so, it should come as NO surprise that I loved the cake the instant I saw it.

It’s just so perfect.  And there’s something about that many sugar pearls on a cake that seems so, well, elegantly decadent.  That Jenniffer from Cup a Dee Cakes paired the pearls with a Read More

 
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Pink Bow Wedding Cake

Pink Bow Wedding Cake

Sometimes I see simple, beautiful, easy-to-do ideas, and I think, why didn’t I think of that?

I know.  You do too.

This cake is kinda like that, you know?  When I saw this, I thought it was adorable, but even more than that, I thought that it was so do-able.  Like DIY-able.  Basically, you make teeny tiny satin ribbon bows, affix them to floral wire, and stick them into the cake.  Done.

But maybe your thing isn’t bows.  But you could do this with Read More

 
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White on White Seashell Wedding Cake

White on white seashell wedding cake

I hope you aren’t tired of beach-inspired wedding cakes, because I probably never will be.

I know that I’ve featured my fair share of wedding cakes that incorporate ocean elements over the last couple of years, like this Teal Seashell Wedding Cake from a wedding in Key West.  Well, today’s cake has kind of an interesting story, too.

This cake was made for a recent wedding at Read More

 
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Orchid and Black Stencilled Square Wedding Cake

Orchid and Black Square Wedding Cake

As much as I love a traditional wedding cake, I really dig when I run into something totally different that I haven’t seen before, anywhere.  The other day, I ran across this example of just such a cake.

Kara Buntin of A Cake to Remember in Richmond, Virginia, has created some of my favorite cakes, to be sure.  This orchid and black wedding cake just may join the ranks.  I really appreciate the strong structure of the almost geometric black lines juxtaposed with the ultra feminine stencilling in a beautiful shade of orchid.  That Kara chose to Read More

 
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Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for July 29, 2012

guiness chocolate wedding cake with bailey's

Happy Sunday!  I am soooo about to check out for a few days while my ab bestie is here visiting.  I can’t wait!  It’s been WAY too long.  But before I go get my beach on for the week (with a little Dark & Stormy action sprinkled in for giggles), I had to show you what I’ve been seeing this week.  Gosh, but it’s been a pretty summer wedding-wise, with lots of homespun and lace.

But before we take our weekly peek at the interwebs, let’s see what we’ve been up to right here at A Wedding Cake Blog.

On Monday, we featured the most DARLING Read More

 
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