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You know this, right? The latest thing in wedding cakes - and by, "latest
thing," I mean, "the fashion that began in Martha Stewart Weddings years ago and has now landed
firmly in middle American weddings" - is to set cupcakes on wedding-style cake tiers. They can be artsy or prosaic, bold and beautiful or pasty pastel.
Best part about the cupcake tower is that it doesn't require any special skills beyond figuring out where to buy the plastic Romanesque tiers to set them on. You could even (yikes!) make your cupcakes with a mix. Got someone with passable baking skills in your wedding party? You no longer need to worry about whether your crucial middle layer will fall, or if you'll build a grand masterpiece only to have it crumble to pieces on the way to the reception. Get your friends a couple packages of cupcake liners and a bunch of baking pans, and you're golden. (Or, silver.)
Some might ask, does this make wedding cakery too accessible, with lovely creations available to the masses? Does this mean any amateur can get into the wedding-cake-making business? I say, as long as the cake is moist and the icing has lots of butter - go for it, middle America. Just make sure and get that invitation in the mail to me...
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1-09-2006 @11:54PM madge said... I know, they look "fancy", but no matter how you arrange them, they're still cupcakes. Unless its done just right (with that Martha Stewartesque attention to detail) its going to have an amateur feel. I've seen similar cupcake towers at baby showers, and the like, where they go over very well. They even sell cupcake stands http://www.brylanehome.com/Product/ProductZoomPopUp.aspx?PfId=59561&producttypeid=1&DeptId=7489&za=1 to make the tower effect accesible to anyone. As for a wedding, a very special formal occasion, nothing beats the picture-perfect, 3-tier cake. If you opt for the cupcake tower, don't just have your Auntie Jean to do it, or you may as well fill the punch bowl with Kool-Aid.
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