Unconventional Wedding Cakes
In today’s wedding world, it seems that most wedding cakes are unconventional. It’s almost unconventional to have a white on white wedding cake! But in an unconventional wedding cake might refer to the design, the topper, or the flavors featured. Regarding design, one popular unconventional style today is the topsy turvy, asymmetrical design. Stacked cake layers give the illusion that the cake could spill over any minute, when in fact, the cake is balanced and level. Unconventional toppers are another way that a couple may make their cake unique. The couple who loves Angry Birds, for instance, can feature the adorable characters perched atop their cake. Can’t last a minute without your cell phone? There’s a wedding topper for that, too. Prefer Goth to Victorian? No problem. A talented baker can help you realize your dream cake. But you might opt for traditional design and toppers, and still find ways to be unconventional with flavors – even savory alternatives to wedding cakes, like “cakes” made of wheels of cheese, or layers of savory meet pies, might stand in for a conventional cake. So, express yourselves! In cake! And send us pictures.
Steampunk Wedding Cake
Time for something a little out there!
We kept seeing the term “steampunk,” and not being so much in the know (or rather being too busy to care about being “in the know”) I had no clue what this meant. And so I Googled it.
That’s when I found out that steampunk is basically a genre of….stuff, that looks old timey and futuristic all at the same time. Think that Wild Wild West movie with Will Smith, Salma Hayek, and Kevin Kline (which I’ve never seen…but I’ve seen some pics. That counts, right?) Normally, this involves stuff that’s set in a time that used steam power, like Read More
Naked Cake Part Two: Bananas Foster Wedding Cake
A couple of weeks ago, I featured this naked wedding cake, and got (mostly) rave reviews! Y’all loved its rustic warmth and general yummy lookingness. Well, I couldn’t help but share this one with you, too. Because it’s kind of a mess, but I lurve it.
This bananas foster naked cake is obviously inspired by the flambe dessert that has been made famous in New Orleans. I love the perfectly controlled chaos here – layer upon layer of cake and bananas and yummy filling, heaped, but neatly heaped. All displayed on a lovely, vintage milkglass pedestal stand.
How darling would this cake be for a Read More
Rainbow Cake Ball Wedding Cake
We love Cake Wrecks. If you want to laugh hysterically (and sometimes, it’s at people, and not with them), then be sure to check out this awesome website.
However, we’ve never linked to them, because, well, usually they’re highlighting all that is hysterically wrong with cake. But then every so often, they show us beautiful cakes, and all is right with the world again.
I just fell in love with this rainbow cake ball wedding cake. Cake balls (yes, we realize it’s kind of a funny term) – not to be confused with cake pops. First, these are different sizes, and all are much bigger Read More
Aqua and White Marbleized White Chocolate Wedding Cake
I love showing you something a little funky and off the beaten, trendy wedding path from time to time. This beautiful cake is neither buttercream nor fondant (although we suspect that buttercream is the glue beneath the surface.) The decoration here is chocolate, believe it or not! The stunning marbleized effect is achieved by using transfer sheets with edible dye. The chocolatier spreads tempered chocolate over the acetate sheets, and as it cools to a hardened (though still malleable) state, the cake is wrapped with the sheets Read More
Rustic Un-Iced Wedding Cake
I wanted to entitle this one “Naked Cake.” But I didn’t know how Google might handle that.
I look at a LOT of wedding cakes, Dear Readers. So I see a lot of trends. Some trends are, well, trends. Some “trends” are things that start out adorable, but after you’ve seen them twenty times, well…not so much.
The use slices of tree trunk to signal “I am rustic” is starting to kinda fall into that category for me. However, I had to show you this one, because Read More
Cake Pop Wedding Cake
You know, we lurve cake around here in all its permutations…we’ve featured plenty of cupcakes, mini cakes, and cake pops right alongside beautiful and statuesque wedding cakes.
We do love the whole cake pop trend especially, however (tomorrow, my favorite will be cupcakes, or pie – pronounced /pah/ here in the South. I’m fickle that way.) But I digress. Cake pops are darling and they are yummy, which makes them fabulous.
But how do you artfully display them, without reducing your swanky wedding reception to what Read More
Van Gogh’s ‘A Starry Night’ Cake
This is not to say that Vincent Van Gogh made this cake. Nor am I implying that the cake was made for the long-departed, troubled, and fabulous Post-Impressionist artist. (Post-Impressionist, not Impressionist. Know your art history, Lovelies.)
This is to say that I LOVE this cake.
How fantastic is it? At once, recognizable as inspired by one of Van Gogh’s most famous works. But the feeling of movement, the energy, the texture, the colors – all spot on.
We espied this fantastic cake on Pinterest, and did a little Read More
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Gothic Roses and Birdcage Wedding Cake
In last week’s round up, I featured a link to Boho Weddings, a fun UK wedding blog that celebrates unique and unusual wedding details. I was so excited to see one of my favorite cakeries, Cakes by Beth, featured in one of their posts!
Beth Mottershead took a unique professional path to her post as owner and creator of Cakes by Beth, via a PhD in Materials Science. That meticulous attention to detail, coupled with a love of creativity, led her to the place she is today.
Beth recently launched her 2012 Cake Collection (I LOVE that she launches Cake Collections, like the true artist and designer she is!) We’ll be featuring Read More
Square and Round White Wedding Cake
Isn’t this pretty?
There is nothing that I like better than taking a little tradition, and twisting it on its head. You still have the elegance that you started with, but you end up with something totally new and unique.
Here, we have a lovely white cake. Sounds a little boring, yes? But how could it be? Our cake artists have played with shape, giving us both square and round. They’ve changed up the Read More
Navy Blue Wedding Cake with Pearls
I’m a Pearl Girl, y’all. And my favorite color? That would be blue. So, yes. This is one fantastic cake. Silver and blue and pearls, oh my.
Navy blue fondant. Six tiers of varying height, with a couple of scalloped-edge layers thrown in. And those pearls? I believe those are handmade. Can you even fathom how long those strands took to create? What a classic and preppy cake. Wouldn’t it be so awesome to see the wedding that it went with?
This lovely showstopper Read More
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