3-tier wedding cakes are a good choice for a smaller reception, because you’ll have a taller cake and still be able to save the top tier if you’d like to. Depending on the shapes and diameters of the tiers, you can get a lot of servings out of a three-tier wedding cake, or you can […]
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If you want a cake that looks taller than a stacked cake, you might want to add pillars or columns between the tiers, or between some of them, and add flowers between the spaces for color. By adding pillars you can increase the height between the cake tiers and easily make the cake 3″ to
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This cake was a lot of fun to plan and execute…I started with a bunch of ideas from the bride, who was doing a Wonderland-type theme for flowers and colors. The issue was that the two ideas she had included were the colorful wonky cakes and a more traditional “pretty” cake. So I wanted to
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There’s something about a classic white wedding cake that’s a crowd-pleaser. A white canvas with flowers on it gives you the traditional white cake and will let you match your cake to the color scheme without going overboard. Rustic icing and white gumpaste flowers. This cake had rustic icing and white gumpaste flowers with centers
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One thing that I hate about setting up a wedding cake outdoors is the possibility that the bugs will find it. A cake that’s covered with gnats isn’t a pretty sight. So when I set up the cake that was based on the Trevi Fountain I was interested in the net that they’d supplied for the
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Purple has always been one of the most popular and pretty colors for wedding themes, and I made a lot of purple wedding cakes. The color purple can be very tricky to work with, so sometimes the decorator will use options for purple accents that won’t fade or turn to blue. These cakes show some
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I see advice about getting fake cakes to reduce the cake budget all the time, and once again it’s a grey area. You might be able to save some money if you use a fake cake, but then again, it might end up costing you more. So are fake cakes always cheaper than real ones? Just
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If you’re a bride at a wedding cake consultation, you need to make sure that the sketch that the baker does for you shows the cake tiers in the correct scale, based on the number of servings you need. This can be really important, because the sketch needs to look like the final cake, and
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Blue and coral or orange is a fairly popular color combination for weddings. It can be beachy or modern, and the blue by itself can be combined with orange flowers to create the color scheme. The colors on their own are also popular, so here is an assortment of cakes that had blue, teal, or
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(Originally published in September of 2009, this shows how you can’t count on a serving count!) This photo comes courtesy of a baker who shall remain anonymous… She posted the story on a cake discussion board that I read, and it was so horrifyingly funny I asked her if I could use it as an
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