Wedding Cakes

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Funky Modern Wedding Cakes

The word “funky” according to Webster’s dictionary is related to the sound of jazz and means ‘having the soulful feeling of early blues’, while funky modern style is a style of modern electronic dance music influenced by various styles of house and beyond, including contemporary, electro house, and lately, broken beat, soca, and afrobeat. The funky style in fashion however is related more to a casual type combined with a funny and cozy elegance of a modernistic...

Frosting Made Roses For Wedding Cakes

Frosting basically means to be covered with a coating of frost, and “frost” represents a layer of  water vapor , layer that is formed due to the cooling of solid surfaces that stand below the dew point of the adjacent air. In the food industry frosting is often replaced by the word ‘icing’, denoting the sweet glaze used in bakery recipes for cakes. In the ancient times the only way to sweeten a cake was using honey dotted with fruits and nuts. The middle time of 17th...

Fall Wedding Cakes

Fall, the season that brings nostalgia into our souls, the season that has the scent of romance and love carried by the wind that blows the yellow rusty leaves; fall, the time of year with its alleys in the park covered by thick carpets of leaves rummaged by the paces of the lovers passing by. This note of romance is the one that determines many couples to choose fall as the season of their wedding ceremony. And because it offers plenty of options regarding the location is another feature that...

Individual Wedding Cakes

Wedding cakes have gained in time lots and lots of representations, due to either the historical times they have emerged with their meanings and superstitions as well or the directions they took in times of defining trends or novelties in the culinary art. If we consider that in the ancient times the wedding cake was merely a dry pastry that was actually broken in pieces on top of the bride’s head to bring her luck and prosperity it is hard to compare what is it now on the wedding cakes...

Motocross Wedding Cakes

In this whole wide world there are as many types of wedding themes as there are couples. In their turn couples, when it comes to their wedding, have as many different ideas as they have hobbies, or traditions, or religious beliefs. To many wedding couples, weddings have to have a theme, a symbol that being marked in the image of the wedding ceremony reflects their intentions, their hobbies, their way of understanding what the meaning of marriage stands for. As it was the case with one of my...

Irish Wedding Cakes

There are wedding ceremonies that you attend to but you don’t have a clue whether the wedding is organized in a certain tradition or carries the mark of a different custom, other than you are familiar to. Well, unless you are told in the invitation, that is! It happened to me once when a friend of mine invited me to her wedding reception. I haven’t attended the religious service since I had some early duties to take care of, but I have previously ensured my friend that I will...