Cakes By Color
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Mar 01, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
Kaye Hartman
Cakes By Color
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Cakegirls
With this four-tier hexagonal confection, the Mahers conjure up the shimmery scales of sea creatures; roughly 500 fondant circles-in varying hues of pale green-are adhered to the cake with royal icing. Occasional coppery-edged rings recall the brilliant flash of fish as they swim.
Cake by Cakegirls
Cake by Cakegirls
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
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Lovin Sullivan Cakes
For something a bit more unexpected, let the chairs you'll use at your ceremony or reception serve as the basis for your cake. The grid pattern of this caning (on a folding chair from Ballard Designs) makes a bold, graphic statement when enlarged onto three tiers. Sullivan laid strips of white fondant atop a green fondant to achieve the crisscross effect.
Cake by LovinSullivanCakes
Cake by LovinSullivanCakes
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Sedona Cake Couture
One of the hottest (and brightest) new color combos, this hot pink, orange and lime green confection (with mango passionfruit cake inside) completely matched the centerpieces and linens at this outdoor wedding by the creek at L'Auberge de Sedona.
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
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Sedona Cake Couture
Deep green fondant was the perfect background for this cake's bright color palette, which featured the bride's favorite flower, peonies, and sugar pomegranates.
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
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Colette's Cakes for Betsey Johnson
The prolific designer's Spring 2009 collection was a visual jamboree of pirate-inspired looks, peasant dresses, and rock and roll garb-but her cake focuses on ruffles. "I came out at the end of my spring 2009 show wearing three huge square-dance petticoats," Johnson says.
Cake by Colette's Cakes
Cake by Colette's Cakes
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Lovin Sullivan Cakes
Small blooms such as stephanotis, the only flower used in this bouquet by New York City florist Chestnuts in the Tuileries, look like a lush field of blossoms when repeated all over a wedding cake. For this creation, made of two equal-size tiers topped by a smaller one, Kate Sullivan, of New York's Lovin Sullivan Cakes, used a base of white fondant. She attached nearly 600 handmade sugar-paste flowers using royal icing.
Cake by LovinSullivanCakes
Cake by LovinSullivanCakes
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Maples Wedding Cakes
Five round tiers covered in buttercream and white chocolate fondant are embellished by gumpaste ranunculus, stephanotis, and vine .
Cake by Maples Wedding Cakes
Cake by Maples Wedding Cakes
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
Your gown and your veil aren't the only wedding-day details that deserve a special trim.
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Bacara Resort & Spa
Nancy O'Dell & Keith Zubchevich kept things simple with a three-tier cake covered in white fondant.
Cake by Bacara Resort and Spa
Cake by Bacara Resort and Spa
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Hansen's Cakes
Banks went with Hansen's Cakes to create the three-tier chocolate-and-vanilla cake garnished with fresh orchids for her big day.
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Cake by Hansen's Cakes
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes for Catherine Malandrino
The French-American designer's vision for the perfect wedding cake consists of a nude underlay topped with three intricate lace patterns. "The dark chocolate glaze looks like fine lingerie," Malandrino says.
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Petal Crafts
This chocolate black out cake with cookies and cream filling is decorated with chocolate fondant, pink, purple and green fondant ribbons and a single gumpaste Turkish tulip and leaves.
Cake by Petal Crafts
Cake by Petal Crafts
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Sedona Cake Couture
Perfect for chocolate lovers-milk chocolate fondant accented with dark choclate vines, leaves and a monogram cover this rich dark chocolate espresso cake.
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
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Fondant draping adorned with seasonal sugar flowers and fruits dress this square flourless chocolate and vanilla cheesecake with ganache and fresh raspberries.
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
Tall brown tiers are perfectly accented by festive red, yellow and green flowers.
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Polly's Cakes
For an earthy confection, four round tiers were topped with marzipan mushrooms and fondant ferns. A light dusting of cocoa, or faux-dirt, was the perfect finishing touch.
Cake by Polly's Cakes.
Cake by Polly's Cakes.
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Wedding Cakes by Jim Smeal
A moist sour-cream chocolate cake is brushed with orange-flavored liqueur and layered with ganache and a slightly chunky, bittersweet orange marmalade. A final glaze of shiny ganache is poured on top. "A chocolate cake is a nice break from tradition," says baker Jim Smeal.
Cake by Jim Smeal
Cake by Jim Smeal
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Take the Cake
Four round tiers covered in white chocolate and chocolate fondant with
handpainted fondant overlays.
Cake by Take the Cake
Cake by Take the Cake
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Cakework
Three round tiers covered in white chocolate wrap with handmade marizpan
fruits, white chocolate blossoms and leaves and dark chocolate branches.
Cake by Cakework
Cake by Cakework
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Cakegirls
"We wanted to bring out the deeper colors of the ocean," says Mary of the rusty red coral set dramatically against this cake's stark white exterior. She and Brenda handcrafted branches from gum paste, coated them in tiny candies, and then punctured each tier with minute holes for added texture.
Cake by Cakegirls
Cake by Cakegirls
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Lovin Sullivan Cakes
Whether the plates you registered for have a classic border or a more modern, organic feel-like this whimsical set by Tord Boontje-their design can translate beautifully onto a round tiered cake. In this case, N.Y.C. baker Kate Sullivan hand-painted Boontje's motif on fondant using a mix of lemon extract and powdered red food coloring. She made the animals' eyes and the blossoms' centers with dots of royal icing.
Cake by LovinSullivanCakes
Cake by LovinSullivanCakes
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Sedona Cake Couture
The bridesmaids wore red and the bride wore a crown, so this dramatic cake was the perfect combination for the bold wedding. Of course, inside was red velvet cake!
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
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Nancy Kay's Confections
Nancy Kay's Confections of Sherman Oaks, CA, made the five-tier cake for Routh's Santa Barbara nuptials.
Cake by Nancy Kay's Confections
Cake by Nancy Kay's Confections
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Cakes by Linda
Three round tiers covered in fondant with satin ribbon, sugar paste leaves
and gumpaste acorns and berries.
Cake by Cake by Linda
Cake by Cake by Linda
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
This striking cake resembles a huge, single rose made up of 150 individual petals. It took four people two days to hand-make and -paint each piece of it, a white Meyer lemon confection complemented by papaya and blood-orange buttercream filling.
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Love Street Cakes
Personalize it by incorporating your heritage, a favorite vacation spot or your destination-wedding location. Popular Indian spices inspired this cardamom cake with saffron butter-cream, says Archana Rao, owner of Love Street Cakes.
Cake by Love Street Cakes
Cake by Love Street Cakes
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
For this beauty—vanilla and chocolate cakes separated by roasted-pineapple buttercream and chopped pistachios—celebrity cake-maker Ron Ben-Israel, who works in N.Y.C., used still lifes by Dutch and Flemish old masters as inspiration (hence the cascade of tulips adorning the pale peach-pink quilted icing).
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Cake Divas
Mowry showcased a stunning four-tier vanilla and red velvet confection decorated with pink roses by Cake Divas at her California celebration.
Cake by Cake Divas
Cake by Cake Divas
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
Play up pretty pink tiers with bunches of flowers and stunning silver detailing.
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
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Perfect Endings
After a decade of planning weddings for Toni Braxton, Kelis and others, Diann Valentine has put together Weddings Valentine Style to show how you can make your wedding reflect your personal style. For clients' cakes, like this one, Valentine often turns to Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings in Napa, Calif.
Cake by Perfect Endings
Cake by Perfect Endings
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Sedona Cake Couture
This deep cherise colored cake was designed to matched the bridesmaid's dresses, while the sugar flowers, leaves and berries reflected the centerpieces.
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
Cake by Sedona Cake Couture
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I Dream of Cake
The intricately patterned blue-tinted icing is as delicate as the this cake's ornately scalloped walls.
I Dream of Cake.
I Dream of Cake.
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Ron Ben-Israel Cakes
Clusters of large sugar peonies in burgundy, claret, coral and deep pink top the fondant icing of this dark-chocolate cake; it's filled with dulce de leche and raspberry buttercream. "I wanted to capture the lusciousness of the flowers in full bloom," says Ben-Israel.
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel
Cake by Ron Ben-Israel