Archive of ‘Flowers’ category

Romance.

| Flowers, Groom's cakes, Wedding / Bridal

This cake is pure romance. Lillian and her niece Tracey wanted to surprise Tracey’s parents who were renewing their wedding vows after 30 years of marriage.  They had sent me a photo of a cake they liked, a two-tiered square cake with red ribbon roses running up one corner of the cakes.  Lillian and her […] Read more…

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A Wedding in Central Park

| Cakes for Girls, Flowers, Wedding / Bridal

Sarah and Rod were married in beautiful setting: New York City’s Central Park!  They chose to have a non-traditional wedding, with a picnic lunch after the ceremony, organized by wedding planner A Central Park Wedding.  The weather was fabulous, albeit a little bit warm by cake standards – a sunny 90 degrees.  But there was […] Read more…

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Flower Power

| Cakes for Girls, Flowers

I just got back from a fabulous gum paste flower class given by the extremely talented Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet Cakes in San Francisco.  I’ve been admiring her work for a couple of years since I first saw it online.  She makes the most fabulous sugar peonies, hydrangeas and a variety of other flowers – […] Read more…

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Early Spring Wedding Cake!

| Cakes for Girls, Flowers, Wedding / Bridal

We certainly are having an amazing March, with spring-like weather even though the calendar still says “Winter” for a few more days.  Influenced by this nice weather and thoughts of my yard bursting into bloom in the coming weeks,  I was inspired to make another display cake full of flowers.  This cake is covered with […] Read more…

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“String work”

| Cakes for Girls, Flowers

This lacy decoration is technically very demanding, and extremely time consuming – but the effect is dramatic.  It is also extremely fragile, and adding one element to the cake can cause others to break!  It is a type of cake decoration that was developed in Australia, and is formally known as the “Lambeth” method.    Read more…

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