Get your Cake Gift Wrapped?

This beauty from Lola’s Pastries is fun and lovely at the same time. Keep it away from the gift table or it may be manhandled! The cake is decorated to look like stacked gift boxes with a beautiful wedding color scheme. Your local wedding cake baker will find it a pretty simple design concept to [...]

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Shaped Cakes

The Knot has a post up about wedding cake trends, and a few seemed to stand out more than others. Wedding cakes have traditionally come in two shapes: round (usually with tiers), or a sheet cake. Often there is a decorative round cake and a larger sheet cake for serving to save money. But wedding [...]

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Saving Money with Your Wedding Cake Shape

If you’re on a budget, every dollar counts when planning your wedding. Did you know that you can save money on your cake by changing the shape you order? Most brides choose shape according to visual preferences, but shape can also save you a lot of money!
Why? Well, first, certain cakes are harder to cut [...]

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The Scrabble Wedding Cake

This is one of the coolest wedding cakes I’ve come across in a long time – the Scrabble Cake! The bride says she did the decorating work herself in the three days leading up to her wedding, which is super impressive considering how perfect the cake looks. Check it out:

She even stayed true to the [...]

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What Cake Shape Fits Your Personality?

While wedding cakes are traditionally round, this isn’t the only cake shape you should consider. Here are the options most commonly offered:

Square: Square cakes look formal, but edgy. This modern look is great for brides who want a fondant cake with sharp, bold lines.
Scallop: The scallop edge on a cake looks less formal. If casual [...]

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Elopement cakes

Elopement cakes are just what they sound like. They are wedding cakes without all of the fuss and detail of the larger kind. Many people just use the term elopement cake to describe a cake that would serve six to ten people. A wedding cake, of course, can be created to serve many more people [...]

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Blue wedding cakes

One of the hottest colors for Spring 2008 is blue – and we have a selection of cakes to inspire and wow you as you’re planning all the details of your wedding day. And visit our sister sites if you’re looking for blue bridesmaids dresses or blue wedding flowers to compliment your color palette.
The first group of gorgeous cakes [...]

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New Cake Book from Mich Turner

Mich Turner just came out with her second cake cookbook, Fantastic Party Cakes. This follows on the success of her first book Spectacular Cakes, which was released two years ago. The books include innovative recipes for wedding cakes – along with gorgeous color photos – and her confections have been a hit with celebrities such as [...]

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Can you fake a cake?

Can you fake your wedding cake? According to an article in the New Zealand magazine STUFF, former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson did just that. At her most recent wedding to Rick Salomon in a private villa in Las Vegas, she cut into a four-tier wedding cake that was made totally out of cardboard. It was [...]

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Modern wedding cakes in San Francisco

I just came across the Web site for inticing creations in San Francisco. Owner Kelly Zubal offers amazing modern wedding cake designs, as well as re-makes on wedding cake classics. All the photos below are from the inticing Web site, and there are others online, so go check out the portfolio. Warning before you fall [...]

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