The Stack Cake: A Unique Type of Wedding Cake

Instead of ordering a traditional white wedding cake, one of the options you should consider to put a unique spin on your wedding is to have a stack cake. The tradition of the stack cake originally developed in Appalachia region of the United States (probably in Kentucky) to help the couple save money. Today, it [...]

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Chocolate Curl Cakes from Divine Wedding Cakes

These chocolate curl cakes are really unique a beautiful. Available from Divine Wedding Cakes in Plymouth, Devon, each cake is covered in edible straws made from delicious chocolate. Just because it’s a wedding cake doesn’t mean that you have to choose vanilla as your flavor!
If you want that traditional white wedding cake look, though, you [...]

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What’s Your Flavor?

If you’re looking for a wedding cake that is both unusual in flavor and design, Sweet Traders of California is the place for you. They have many ideas for couples looking to impress their guests with a cake that represents their own tastes. While Sweet Traders serves the counties of Los Angeles and Orange, they [...]

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Weirdest Cake Toppers

At Superpunch a blogger has made a list of the weirdest cake toppers that could be found. These included

A couple standing at the top of a cake ignoring each other while chatting on cell phones.
A couple copulating on top of the cake.
Two Day of The Dead style skeletons copulating on top of the cake in [...]

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Cinderella Castle Cake Top

Would you like to have a cinderella castle cake, but can’t find a baker to do it? Perhaps you want something a bit more simple. One great idea is a cake topper that actually looks like it is the cake itself in the shape of a large cinderella castle.  The topper below is your “Cinderella Castle [...]

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White Wedding Cake Symbolism

The Maise Fantaisie site which practically takes anthropological looks at wedding cakes has supplied an interesting article about why wedding cakes are white. It is true that when most of us think of wedding we think of them as white because we think the same thing about the wedding dresses. This is because historically the [...]

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Orange Mexican Wedding Cakes

Mexican Wedding Cakes, which are actually cookies served at a wedding as true to that country’s tradition, have been discussed in this blog before. However Pattycake, a baking site in Canada, offers this twist on Mexican Wedding Cakes by adding a heavy twist of orange to the recipe. Russian Tea Cakes which you could serve [...]

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Dr. Seuss Cake Colors are In!

The color palette for weddings just took a playful turn for winter and fall 2008/2009 especially when it comes to wedding cakes. Gone are the pinks and silvers and browns and golds that characterized last year’s wedding cakes. The hippest wedding cakes are now made with fondant that is dyed in the same types of [...]

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Pipe Cleaner Cake Toppers

Believe it or not you can make your own cake toppers out of pipe cleaners. Of course this is best for a less formal wedding. You wouldn’t want a pipe cleaner bride and groom on top of a cake that was too formal looking.  However, it is a style that does suit a wedding that [...]

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Choosing a Cake You Will Both Love

What to do if you like chocolate and he likes vanilla?  According to wedding expert Roney Carley, you could serve a cake that has a different flavor in each tier. In fact doing this has become a real trend, probably because having such a variety of cake to choose from is such a people pleaser. [...]

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