Warm your guests' hearts with a confection that's a perfect fit for your celebration.
By: Elena Donovan MauerCountry Time
Going a little bit country? Embellish your wedding cake with eyelet, butterflies or fruit.
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Dressed in White Dainty white eyelet, circling each tier, allows a peek at the pretty, butter-yellow frosting behind. Designed by Collette Foley, collettefoley.com. Silver cake server with pearl accent, by Things Remembered, thingsremembered.com. |
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All Aflutter Colorful sugar butterflies appear to have just alighted on this woodlands-inspired cake, complete with graceful ferns, acorns and buds. Designed by Collette Foley, collettefoley.com. |
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Dream Weaver Clusters of darling green marzipan apples and yellow sugar roses and mums adorn square tiers, covered with pale-mocha frosting in a woven motif. Designed by Collette Foley, collettefoley.com. |
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Floral Fantasy For an outdoor wedding, a classic cake made with vivid sugar peonies, poppies, lilies and roses that cascade down all five tiers is a garden of delight all its own. Hand-painted sage-green leaves trim the layers, adding a fresh accent. Designed by Ron Ben-Israel, weddingcakes.com or 212-625-3369. |
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Summer Sweets
Warm weather usually means fun in the sun. Why not have some fun with your wedding cake by adding out-of-the-ordinary details?
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Starry Night For a 4th of July wedding, a festive cake with red, white and blue "fireworks" against a dark chocolate night sky makes a celebratory statement. Sugarpaste lilies and petunias fill a patriotic sugarpaste vase and decorate the hexagonal tiers.
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Sugar Beach
Seaside nuptials call for a whimsical design inspired by ocean life.
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Clam Bake Clams, shells, starfish and even a happy crab (all sugarpaste) adorn this four-tier beauty. For textural interest, there's a beach fence and fish netting. Scattered at the bottom: bright blue and aqua sea glass made of sugar. |
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Blue Crush Intricately designed white coral and seaweed seem to climb up the side of this sea-blue, aquatic-themed confection. Statuesque seahorses and a crown of fondant initials add a regal look. |
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Take a Bow Perfect for a tropical wedding, this clever creation—a sort of gift box meets beach bag—is wrapped with polka dots, stripes and palm trees. A fondant bow and lime-green orchid complete the prize-package look. Cakes designed by Sweet Lisa's Exquisite Cakes, sweetlisas.com or 203-869-9545. |
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The Big City
No need to go to great heights. Simple lines make your wedding cake charming and elegant.
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Urban Legend
For a chic city soirée, this sophisticated marzipan and sugarpaste confection is the height of style.
The cake features textured white stripes and on the bottom tier a silver-trimmed sugarpaste cityscape. The pièce de résistance, a striking skyscraper, makes the perfect cake topper. Designed by Cheryl Kleinman Cakes, 718-237-2271. Flutes from Jean M, myjeanm.com. Lenox cake knife, available at Exclusively Weddings, exclusivelyweddings.com.
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