Bobby Casey loves his iPhone. He also loves his new wife. On the couple’s wedding day, the new Mrs. Casey presented her husband with an iPhone shaped groom’s cake as a wedding gift. The full sheet cake was decorated to look like an iPhone, complete with brightly coloured iPhone application icons in the black frosting. [...] Read more »
Couples Offer Cheese Cakes At Weddings
Some couples are migrating toward a new trend in wedding cakes: stacked cheeses standing in for more traditional fruitcakes. The wedding “cake” is made from a stack of assorted round cheeses, and decorating them, much like a traditional wedding cake – save the frosting and other surgary decorations. The trend seems to have started in [...] Read more »
Wedding Cake Savings
Budget-conscious brides looking to save money on their weddings are turning to bakery fakery to save a bundle. A common element for most wedding receptions is the cake, but a traditional multi-layer wedding cake can cost hundreds – or even thousands of dollars. To help avoid busting the wedding budget, some brides are using fake [...] Read more »
UK Cake Designer Turns Down Saudi Princess
A wedding cake designer in the UK was approached on behalf of a Saudi royal to create confections for a wedding cake in the shape of a giant chandelier. After receiving details of the job, Lesley Bassett says she was more than intrigued by the prospect of pitching in on the giant cake, but in [...] Read more »
Wedding Cake From Charles And Diana Auctioned For Charity
A slice of cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer was auctioned off in Gloucestershire for £1,000. The slice was given to a former royal servant and featured a marzipan base. It came from one of 23 official wedding cakes baked for the occasion. Moyra Smith, the former servant and owner [...] Read more »
A Gold Medal Wedding Cake
Mark Seaman, a baker from Chicago, Illinois in the United States has captured the top honor in an international wedding cake competition at the Oklahoma Sugar Arts Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The theme of the competition was “Hollywood Glamour” and Seaman’s entry paid homage to comedienne Lucille Ball. The six-tiered cake featured 500 individually crafted [...] Read more »
The Traditional Cutting of the Wedding Cake
The traditional cutting of the wedding cake is a beautiful moment in every wedding reception. This tradition can date back as far as The Roman Empire although it was a much different tradition than we know today. It is through the years that the traditional cutting of the wedding cake has changed and evolved into [...] Read more »
Why You Should Have a Unique Wedding Cake
You want your wedding to be the most special day of your life. You want a day that you will always remember fondly as well as a day that your guests will remember as well. People tend to commit visual images to memory. This is why we put so much time, effort, and money into [...] Read more »
Tips On Wedding Cakes
Many brides agonise over the cake they plan to serve at their wedding receptions. Cakes are as individual as weddings themselves, so doing a little research and planning can help make your cake special. The wedding cake is a focal point of a reception. The size of the reception will determine the amount of cake [...] Read more »
Finding the Perfect Wedding Cake
Wedding cakes have been a tradition for centuries, but they have become much more elaborate. It can be difficult to find just the right cake for the reception because there are so many options available to the bride and groom. While wedding planning is stressful, choosing a cake is one of the most fun parts [...] Read more »
The Definitive Guide to Wedding Cakes
Wedding cakes are a tradition that has been around for centuries. Most couples still practice this tradition. Wedding cakes are a thing of beauty, intricately designed and delicious! Choosing just the right cake is one of the most fun decisions that the bride and groom will make during the wedding planning process. There are so [...] Read more »
Wedding Cakes on a Budget
Wedding cakes are one of the traditions that everyone looks forward to at a wedding. Will the bride and groom feed each other nice and sweet or smear the cake on the other’s face? Regardless of how the bride and groom choose to handle this situation, one thing is always standard and that is the [...] Read more »
Give Wedding Cake Boxes so Guests Can Take a Treat Home
Wedding cake boxes are becoming very popular. Wedding guests are often urged to take home some of the leftover wedding cake, since there is always leftover wedding cake. This can be a bit problematic without wedding cake boxes, so it is a good idea to plan ahead. Planning ahead allows the bride and groom the [...] Read more »
History of the Wedding Cake
Almost nobody can imagine their wedding day without a special wedding cake to make the celebration complete. The tradition of having a cake at weddings goes back hundreds of years to medieval Europe, and likely even beyond. Wedding cakes have probably been around since ancient Greece and Rome flourished. In ancient Greece, sesame and honey [...] Read more »
Wedding Cake Traditions
What wedding would be complete without a wedding cake? Wedding cakes seem to be the one aspect of weddings that people all over the world agree upon. But not all cakes are created equal! Many countries around the world have some very different—and amazing—cakes as a part of their wedding traditions. Lithuania One of the [...] Read more »
Wedding Cakes
The wedding cake is one of the most memorable aspects of your reception. If you want a wedding cake that will really impress your guests, how about one of these? Tried and True Traditionally, wedding cakes are rounds of fruit cake, stacked or layered in tiers, and covered with white frosting. Decorations such as hearts, [...] Read more »