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.
Halloween Cakes
Halloween is my second favorite holiday of the year. It’s a close second to Christmas…but that’s not really a fair comparison though. I mean Christmas lasts from November 1st to January 1st…basically. Halloween gets a good solid week of celebration but it’s such a FUN celebration. One day (or two or three if you happen to be extremely popular and get invited to multiple parties) a year you get to abandon yourself and pretend to be someone (or something) else for just a little while. Did you know that Halloween weddings are actually more popular than Christmas weddings? It’s true. I looked it up in this big book I have in my living room Read More
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
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?
Robot Wedding Cake
It is no secret that I love Kara Buntin of A Cake to Remember in Charlottesville Richmond, Virginia. She is original, she’s meticulous, she’s knowledgeable, she’s particular, she’s funny. I learn from her blog and I’m inspired by it.
Earlier this year, Kara featured a contest for a local couple getting married. She would make their cake, but with the (sort of) condition that she would be given some latitude artistically, to make a non-traditional wedding cake. Later, she announced her winners, Carrie and Matt, and they got to work with the plan and design.
This original, adorable robot cake is the result.
Robots? Wedding cake? You wouldn’t think so, but it works! Kara worked with Carrie to come up with the theme. At first, bride Carrie wanted a traditional wedding cake and a funny groom’s cake, because “that’s what is done.” However, she was open to combining the two – and the theme was born!
Here is an excerpt from Kara’s blog, telling a little about the couple’s courtship:
“Matt hosted a Blogging/Web Development conference in May of 2009 and I attended for work. A few months later we struck up a conversation on twitter, became friends and talked (a lot) throughout the rest of the summer. In September of 2010 we went on our first date, and on September 18, 2010, one week shy of our 1-year anniversary, Matt asked me to marry him.”
Mr. Robot, inspired by the Twitter technical difficulties motif, sits on top of a traditional wedding cake, and holds another diminutive wedding cake, covered with an Xs and Ox motif. The bottom cake has birds, which represent the couple’s Twitter courtship. And because of the couple’s high tech connection, the bottom tier is bordered by “Matt plus Carrie XOXO” – spelled out in binary code around the base of the cake! Kara also brought in some softer, more traditional touches to add to the whimsy, like the off center peony on the bottom layer.
This is truly an original, beautiful cake, and what’s more, it represents the couple to a T. And THAT is the mark of an exceptional cake artist.
Cheesecake Bar
I sense a theme this week. Don’t you? After kicking off Monday with Cupcake Bars and following yesterday with a wedding that offered a wide range of desserts…why not stick with the theme and show off a Cheesecake Bar today?
This bride chose to forgo the traditional wedding cake and just offer a variety of cheesecakes. Why not? This bride offered a variety of thirteen different cheesecakes and a variety of fruit toppings. Yum. Perhaps Read More
Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for October 9, 2011
Run a half marathon to celebrate a certain milestone birthday: Check.
Party like a rockstar for the week after said half marathon, and even eat a donut: Check.
Contemplate a cupcake, but don’t commit, and walk away: Check, check.
Y’all will be happy to know that I successfully participated in (saying that I competed would just Read More
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Oreo Cake
I saw this on Pinterest a few months ago and I pinned it but never thought of it again. In fact I had convinced myself that I already blogged about this just cake and just spent about 15 minutes looking through the archives just to check. I didn’t and I kind of shocked myself.
An Oreo cake. Seriously…where is the milk? Because I am ready to twist and dunk thank you very much.
Surely the creator of this amazing creation must be touched by an angel. That is true if you consider that the creator of this cake is Kevin Sharkey…who, by the way, Read More
Zen-Inspired Wedding Cake
I super need some Zen today.
I am running a half marathon tonight – my first ever race, and I pick a half marathon – and I’m a little nervous about it. My poor family. I’ve been a little on the crabby side this week.
But then I remembered that I had this lovely, Zen-inspired cake tucked away in my “favorites” file for just the right time…and lo and behold, here it is. Just the right time.
Just looking at this cake calms me the heck down.
Isn’t it elegant? Four tiers, trimmed in black, Read More
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Winter Themed Cake
Okay, here are two things that I am painfully aware of.
1. It is not in any way shape or form winter.
2. I know that this cake is not exactly a wedding cake..but a Nutcracker-themed cake made in celebration of a production of The Nutcracker.
Yet, here I sit, ready to get my Nutcracker on in the middle of September. Oh well. Because I adore this-six tiered creation that pays homage to all things Snowflake, Gum Drop, Sugar Plum and oh yes, I believe those are little tiny purple mice. True story, I was in The Nutcracker in the fourth Read More
Au Revoir, Summer: Brightly-Colored Floral Cake
It’s September 22nd..and guess what? I’m done with you summer. I’m done with the heat, the miserable heat. Although, I must add I will take the vacation back though. Anyway, as my goodbye to summer I thought I’d share this cute little summer cake in order to make room for all the fall I am going to be throwing in your Read More
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