Posts Tagged ‘wedding cakes’

One of the most important components to the wedding day planning is the choice of the wedding cake. While it is important for your chosen confection to taste delicious, many brides pass the opportunity to use the cake flavor as another way to make their day stand out. Sure we all love those classics of Vanilla and Chocolate, but why not consider cake choices that taste just as wonderful as they sound? Bakeries, recognizing the need to entice business by offering a wide variety of options, are beginning to audaciously explore exotic cake and icing flavors. So, the In The Details Blog Top 5 for this month spotlights our favorite alternatives to those wedding cake defaults. Remember, you don’t have to move completely away from the favorite two. Just consider kicking it up another level.

White Chocolate Fantasy
White Chocolate Cake filled with Creamy White Chocolate Mousse, iced with White Chocolate Buttercream.

Guava Chiffon Cake
Layers of Guava Cake, filled with a guava jelly, iced with a Whipped Guava Cream.

Coconut-Macadamia Cake
Layers of White Cake filled with Coconut Pastry Cream, Toasted Coconut & Macadamia Nuts, iced with Coconut Buttercream.

Kahlua Chocolate Fudge
Dark Chocolate Cake soaked with Kahlua & filled with Chocolate Fudge

Vanilla Rum Torte
A delicious torte of Vanilla cake sprinkled with Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum & layered with a whipped rum mousse. Moist but never soggy with a light rum flavor.

This month’s cake walk takes us to Sandy, UT, and the very talented bakery known as Carrie’s Cakes. While Carrie’s Cakes features an unusual mix of classic and unique in cake designing, their straight-forward approach to their services is what really caught our eye. Not only do they have an extensive gallery featuring the work they have done, but they also list prices and serving sizes with each design to let you know exactly what you pay for what you get. When time and budget factor heavily in the wedding planning, such an open and candid showcase is refreshing and considerate to potential customers. Here is just a sample of their gorgeous work, so be sure to visit their website for more information and service regions.

While looking for photos to create an inspiration board, I stumbled upon the work of Maribelle Cakery by way of a stunning lavender and purple multi-tiered cake for an Indian Wedding.

Isn’t it gorgeous?

So I decided to post-pone my original post in order to share this discovery with you. Maribell Cakery is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, but they serve the Covington, Newport, and Northern Kentucky areas as well. The two cake designers have been in business for 18 years, and show no signs of slowing down.

They have a range of exotic yet delicious cake and filling flavors: Orange Butter Cake, Chocolate Truffle Cake, French Raspberry, Mocha Fudge, and Apricot Grand Marnier just to name a few. The rest may be found here on the website, along with a detailed pricing chart and contact information.

If these cakes taste as good as they look, Maribelle Cakery must be turning away business!

No matter your theme or colors, these days there seems to be a cake for everyone. From ornate and detailed to minimal and bare, take a look at some of the gorgeous deserts we’ve found in every color of the rainbow…with a little extra for those who are just outside the box. Beautiful, perfect, and delicious!

Racy Red- really loving the lily cake

Vibrant Orange- it’s rare to see orange icing, but such cakes are just as gorgeous as those only with the orange accents.

Yellow is perfect for spring and summer. Honestly, there just aren’t enough yellow-featured weddings.

Green works in so many ways it should be considered neutral. Bonus- before this, I’d never seen a cake that reminded me of cuff links.

Blue certainly adds a bit of suave and class. And as you can tell from Cake #2, it does well for cultural events too.

Purple, regal and romantic, remains my favorite color. However, I have yet to find a cake with purple icing that I can whole-heartedly endorse. Let me know if you find one.

Pink will forever be a wedding classic. Cake #1 was modeled after wedding invitations…an idea that I’m sure can be repeated if you want your own signature look.

Black and White works for classy or wild, so you can’t go wrong. Just add a bold contrast color if you want to spice things up.

Mmm, chocolate! I could refer to these cakes as brown, but brown equals chocolate in my mind. Another great neutral, it’s ideal if decadence, indulgence, and sinfully delicious are key words for the big day.