Wedding season
If you know me, or if you followed me over from my old blog, you know that the last few years of my life have been spent making wedding cakes. It feels really weird for it to be Spring and to not be making wedding cakes. And then the new Martha Stewart Weddings comes out, and I want to cry! So I thought I would take a few nostalgic moments to reminisce about my favorite MSW cakes throughout the years.
The one up top? My all-time favorite. Cake. Ever. I am so partial to pastel cakes, especially pink and yellow pastel cakes, and the squiggle piping makes my heart flutter.
This one. If I remember correctly from that issue, the blue meringue buttercream was flecked with
vanilla bean seeds, creating a perfectly speckled robin's egg effect. Adorable!
I've always thought this would be so sweet as a groom's cake, especially in the winter. I believe the cake is devil's food, and the different buttercreams are vanilla, chocolate, and coffee. Served with coffee, scrumptious.
These are new this year, but I love them. All of them. Together, at one wedding. Don't you agree?
And finally, this cherry-almond marzipan one. Classic flavor combination, filled with jam and buttercream. Delicious!
All images from Martha Stewart Weddings
These are some of my favorites as well.
Posted by: Landa | April 28, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Wow. The blue buttercream with vanilla bean robin egg specks is brilliant. And the top one is just so spectacularly sweet. I'm back from Mexico and can't wait to be in Nash and catch up. Mmmm, now I want, no I NEED cake.
Posted by: Michelle | April 28, 2008 at 03:07 PM
All the cakes featured are pretty, but I have to agree that the yellow one is outstanding. When I was younger, I wasn't a big fan of yellow, but the color has been growing on me lately. The yellow cake is another reason for me to like the color.
Posted by: Cecilia | April 28, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Beautiful cakes! I came across your blog randomly and found it great that you were in the Nashville area. :) I just redid the website of another great wedding cake maker here in middle TN. :) Maples Wedding Cakes. Thanks also for the link to Avalon Acres..I've emailed them my interest.
Posted by: amber | April 29, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Isn't Martha Stewart's wedding magazines pure eye candy!! There isn't a wedding on the horizon in our family,but I love looking at those darn magazines. I thought I was going to be able to give my oldest a wedding ala Martha,but she eloped and got married in Paris! I do have one more daughter however :)Would love to see any wedding cakes you created.
Posted by: Elizabeth Mackey | April 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM
the first one takes my breath away....the second and third are alright....the fourth made me faint..and the fifth? well, unbelievable!
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Posted by: mary | April 29, 2008 at 04:18 PM
These cakes are goregeous! I especially love the trio of cakes...so elegant! I came across your blog and absolutely love it! such great information, stories and pictures! I just wanted to say hi and keep up the great blogging!
Posted by: Jessica | April 30, 2008 at 10:53 AM
These cakes of yours are stunning! I'm going to recommend to my friend who is planning for her wedding next year!
Posted by: Oli | May 05, 2008 at 08:34 AM