White Paisley Wedding Cake

Paisley White Wedding Cake

The theme of the cake centered around the distinctive paisley design.

The paisley design is incorporated across a variety of cakes through the years, and it is a beautiful design element for wedding cakes. The sideways teardrop design is of Iranian and Indian origin and serves as a great way for a couple to incorporate pieces of their ethnic origin into the cake.

Close-up of Paisely designs on wedding cake

“Persian pickles” is truly a historical term used to describe paisley or just a fictional offshoot of the popular “Persian Pickle Club” book.

What does seem to be accurate is that the actual origin of the word Paisley was derived by a town in Scotland of the same name. Other interesting derivatives of the name include Mankolam (from India) and Boteh Jegheh which the Persian translation.

Paisely Print Wedding Cake at the Park Avenue Club

The cake itself was covered in whtie fondant with piped paisley patterns on each tier in white with pearlized details. Flavors and fillings included chocolate and vanilla cake with oreos and cream buttercream, chocolate buttercream, coffee buttercream, and hazelnut buttercream.

Here’s another popular wedding cake design with a similar paisley design pattern:

Paisley Wedding Cake

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Baby Boy’s Christening Cupcake Tower

Baby Boy's Christening Cupcake Stand

The topper cake is covered in quilted light blue fondant with chocolate dots in each corner. The top is decorated in a white bow which coordinates with the white piped pearls around the base of the tier.

Blue Velvet, Chocolate, & Vanilla Cupcakes

Included along the cupcake stand are 25 blue velvet cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, 25 vanilla with lemon buttercream dyed light blue and 13 chocolate with chocolate and almond buttercream.

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Cake Pops

Spring Cake Pops with Yellow Daisy

Cake pops are a great alternative to a cookie or cupcake favor!

Vanilla cross section of cake pop

Vanilla Rainbow Polka Dot Cake Pops

Dark Chocolate with Chocolate Hazelnut Crunch Cake Pops

Red velvet cake pops drizzled with white chocolate

Pink Velvet cross section of cake pop

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Belgian Chocolates Wedding Cakes

If you weren’t craving chocolate before… you’re welcome.

What’s better than a chocolate cake, enrobed in chocolate cigarettes and encircled with Belgian chocolates?  How about a chocolate starburst wedding cake topper?  Shut the front door!

This chocolate chocolate and more chocolate wedding cake would meet the craving needs of any chocoholic bride out there.  Apparently, once the cake had been served, the chocolates were passed around with coffee.

I love the idea of decorating dessert…with more dessert.  Beautifully executed, we think this would make a swell DIY project as well, and could be scaled back for a groom’s cake, or even a birthday cake.  I’m bookmarking it for my big day, in fact.  And if you lurve the idea of a chocolate wedding cake, check out these other two I’ve featured recently:  a chocolate truffle wedding cake (one of my faves) and a sunburst wedding cake, decorated with warm copper tones.

What are your ideas for decorating dessert with more dessert?

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Hostess Cupcake Groom’s Cake

What is with me and chocolate lately? Wait. Could there BE a dumber question?  Eh.  It is what it is.  And…what it is…is another chocolate cake from Brooke.

But look at it, will ya?  Like I could resist!  It’s a giant Hostess cupcake, perched upon the top of what we suspect is the groom’s cake for a lovely summer celebration.  And it’s perfectly executed and instantly recognizable.

Okay, so…confession.  I was never really allowed to have these as a kid, and I wouldn’t let my children touch Hostess products with a ten-foot pole, so they would have no idea what this is (other than a yummy giant chocolate cupcake, and really, isn’t that enough?)  But to my generation, this is instantly recognizable and completely adorable.  Decadent in its size, comforting in its appearance.  And I guarantee, much more delicious than the original.  I wonder if it’s filled?  Surely!

This adorable cake was made by The Hudson Cakery.

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All White Roses Wedding Cake

I know.  Not the most cutting edge cake I’ve ever featured.  But really.  Look at it.  It’s beautiful.
There is something so wonderful about simplicity.  A single color.  A motif repeated over and over.  Color carried through various design elements.

I guarantee you that many people overlooked just how pretty this cake was.  ”Seen one white cake, seen ‘em all.”  But the artist really paid attention here.  See how the size of the sugarpaste roses gets slightly larger with each layer?  And notice that the whites match, and the bisque porcelain topper inspires the finish of the entire cake.

You may thing that simple equals easy.  Not so.  Sometimes, the meticulous attention to detail that a simple cake requires trumps the busiest of creations.  You can’t fake perfection with simple.  No siree bobby.

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Art Deco Square Wedding Cake

I started to make this cake a feature for Wedding Cake Topper Friday, on account that I heart Paris in the most longing way, and so of course I sighed and swooned when I saw this fabulous cake.  But honestly, the cake is so much more than that topper.  And so here it is, the star of its own post.

I’m a big fan of art deco anyway.  Have you seen Midnight in Paris?  Woody Allen’s 2011 Oscar contender straddled the line between present day and 1920s Paris.  I loved it immediately, and this cake, with its art deco motif and La Tour Eiffel topper, takes me right to it.  And there’s something so complete about the marriage in art deco of a structured, almost masculine background, softened with flourishes and decorative touches.  I suppose I love the balance and symmetry of it.

And this cake displays it beautifully.  The artist limits the color scheme to three colors:  off white, a deeper cream, and brown.  The motifs of dots and scalloped edges is repeated as well.  The meticulous buttercream is applied to the cake with sharp edges, thus further focusing your attention on the piping, and the setting in which the cake is photographed is equally perfect, as the creamy marble backdrop echoes the color and structure of the cake.  The bees’ knees, yes?

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‘How Do I Love Thee?’ Pink Wedding Cake

This is the part of the blog where I confess that I am a total English Lit geek.  Like, so much, that I studied it for four years, and contemplated grad school and teaching.  However, other opportunities presented themselves (like making, and then writing about, wedding cakes) that were far more family friendly…and here I am.

Where was I?

Oh yes.  My deep and abiding love for the British written word.  Well, any written word, actually.  As long as it’s well-written.

However, this happens to be one of my ab fave poems, Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barret Browning.  That’s a pretty generic title, but you are sure to recognize the poem:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints!—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

I find myself quoting it frequently.

When I saw a beautiful cake that used this particular sonnet, I knew I needed to share it with you.  This is the second time we’ve featured a “poem” cake; Christen fell in love with this ee cummings hand-piped cake previously.

This simple, pink fondant-covered cake is trimmed with paper bands containing the beautiful words hand written in calligraphy.  The motif is repeated in a swag that captures the same words.  It also incorporates a double-height layer, something that we love around here.  An old-fashioned nosegay tops the cake perfectly.  It is truly one of my all- time favorite cakes, created by Wendy Kromer for Martha Stewart Weddings.

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Pink and Yellow Chevron Polka Dot Wedding Cake

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Brooke

I remember that we flirted a little with chevrons last year, and I’m happy to see them representin’ again in 2012.

Isn’t this a darlin’ little cake?  I love the sassy little polka dots that bring just the right pop of color, and the ruffly peonies say summer pretty in such a lovely way.  Really, are there any prettier flowers for a wedding than flouncy peonies?

The demure size just lends to the charm.  We could see this design translated to any number of hot color combinations (teal and chocolate?  grey and yellow?  blue and green?), and the design would be darling on a cutting cake and matching baby cakes or cupcakes or cake pops – oh my!  And if you’re expecting a crowd for your shindig, this could easily be the perfect get together for a more intimate celebration, like a bridesmaids’ luncheon.

We don’t know the baker of this lovely cake sadly, but we can tell you that it was photographed beautifully by BRC Photography of Norman, Oklahoma.

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Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for March 25, 2011

Here we are!  At the BEACH, spring breakin’ it up!

I hope you aren’t stuck somewhere cold and snowy, but if you are, snuggle up with some hot chocolate and dream of warmer days that are JUST around the corner!  Better yet, let me send some spring vibes your way in the form of the sweetest and prettiest I can find around the interwebs.  So let’s get started with a review of the cakes we brought you this week!

On Monday, I showed you what is certainly destined to be one of my favoritest cakes of all time, a wedding cake inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43.  How Do I Love Thee? indeed.  Covered with frosting.  That’s how

Tuesday, we gave in to our darker side – our chocolate vibe, that is, and featured this incredible chocolate cake, decorated with – what else? – MORE chocolate.S.

Art Deco and Gay Paris were the vibe of the day on Wednesday, when we featured an incredible art deco-inspired square cake, complete with an Eiffel Tower topper. Swoon.

We went demure, sassy, and oh so romantic on Thursday, with this darling hot pink and bright yellow chevron polka dot cake, trimmed with a flounce of peonies.

Friday saw me wax a wee bit nostalgic when I brought you an adorable stephanotis nosegay caketopper.

And now, let’s discuss a little Sweet and Pretty:

You think your wedding dress train was long?  Record setting, perhaps?  Not even close.  The Andree Salon in Bucharest, Romania, now holds that record, thank you very much.  (And there was SPITE toward the previous record holder involved!  Delicious!)

We’re hearing that the average cost of weddings rose in 2011 for the first time since 2008, signaling that couples are willing to splurge a little, regardless of the economic picture.

No bridal ensemble is complete without a garter…and what’s better than a gorgeous garter?  WINNING a gorgeous garter!  But hurry! This giveaway on HWTM.com is only happening through Tuesday, 27 March!

I absolutely LOVE the idea of a surprise New Year’s Eve wedding, like this one on Style Me Pretty.  What are your thoughts?  Could you pull it off?

Do you dream of a custom-made wedding dress? Then check out this feature on Broke Ass Bride, which documents the journey.  Fun read.

I love this Bonita Springs wedding, featured on Oceanside Bride. Starfish abound as a central motif…right down to the cake, made by Mikkelson’s Pastry Shop, which I feature above.

Looking for gold and pink wedding inspiration? The Wedding Chicks have you covered.  Beautifully.

Have a delicious week!

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Cake Topper Friday: Tiara Wedding Cake Topper

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Brooke

Now, seriously…why didn’t we think of this?  Brill!

So…we all need to be honest here, right this minute.  And that is to say that if we had our way, we’d ALL get the chance to wear little tiaras and crownlettes (is that a word?  I don’t think so) like this.  I personally would wear mine while grocery shopping and vacuuming.  Heck, I already wear my pearls for those activities, so why not?

This is a great cake anyway, all white on white, round on square, with a perfect swag of fondant doing a great fabric impression.  The piping is exquisite, the decorations are just enough without crossing the line.  But it’s the crown that takes the cake.  Yessir, I said it.

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