"wedding cakes" news and stories

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• Creative ideas for showers of the wedding and baby variety.
• Put down the pie and whip up some Pilgrim's Pumpkin Pudding instead.
  
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• Microbrew reviews for Farmington River Brown Ale, Trout River Rainbow Red, Harpoon Leviathan, Ballast Point Sea Monster Imperial Stout, Trout River Chocolate Oatmeal Stout and Iniquity Black Ale.

Who wants to invite me to a wedding with this cake? Please? I want it! I admit - it might be a little more pricey than the cake you were thinking of getting, but it's healthier. Surely sticking pieces of sushi in each other's faces is more romantic than frosting. Although, if you really wanted some frosting, perhaps you could add a green wasabi frosting. I'd be OK with that.

If you need some help with it, you should know that the picture came from the wedding of Jef and Jin Yoon and the cake maker has shared the recipe on her website. Now, you've got no excuses. It's sushi time!

[via Baking Bites]

When it comes to wedding cakes, my primary requirement is that it taste good. So many wedding cakes turn out to be dry and tasteless, more like eating paste than dessert. But it seems that for many, the primary requirement for the wedding cake is that it must be carefully sculpted and attractive, taste be damned. However, I think that Texas bride Chidi Ogbuta may have taken her wedding cake a bit too far. For her September 22nd, 2007 wedding, she had a cake made in her own wedding day image. Will this be the new trend in wedding desserts? (For those of you who are really curious, there are more pictures in the article).

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I saw a preview for the new season of WE's Bridezillas, and I thought two things. One, I'm a guy so why am I watching WE so much lately? And the other thing I thought was, I am never going to have a big wedding if this is what it does to women.

But June is the month for weddings, and congrats to anyone out there who is getting married in the next few weeks. The Boston Globe has an article about one of the most important parts of the reception, the wedding cake. These aren't basic cakes, of course. They're elaborate desserts from shoppes with names like The Chocolate Tarte and Le Beau Gateau.

These people aren't just bakers, they're artists.

I am nowhere near getting married, but if I could somehow get cupcakes for a wedding delivered here from Australia, I might consider it.

These gorgeous cupcakes are made by Kylie Lambert for her bakery Le Cupcake...in Sydney Australia! I am sure the cupcake itself tastes great (it looks like vanilla), but it is the soft, subtle blue, and the detail of what is on top that got me. I suspect that Kylie pressed some sort of lace into fondant to create the look. Her other cupcakes are similar, some with the same lace impressions, others that are simply frosted, but have beautiful sugar decorations. I love the butterfly.

She doesn't have a website, but this photo, along with photos of all her cupcake artistry, is on Flickr.