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Flour Power: 12 Luxury Black & White Cakes

by admin on December 14, 2009

There’s nothing I like more than looking at wedding cakes. Not only do I feel intense admiration for the people whose skilled hands and minds make these things — it’s obvious that love for the process into it — wedding cakes have obviously gotten so beautiful that they resonate like works of art when you look at them. Or if not art, at least high design, which is just as soul-feeding.

Credits: Damask cake with red rose, Paris-themed photo cake, Chanel-style quilted cake, three-tier damask cake with fuchsia ribbon.

It’s wonderful, too, that these cakes taste as good as they look, with their ganaches and simple syrups and fresh fruit and chocolate fondant. What a great time in foodie history we live in!

Speaking of history, the black and white color scheme will still be really important next year. In fact, couples are not only loving the scheme, they’re even turning more toward black & white photography, because of the power of the images, and nostalgia.

Credits: 5 tier cake with floral accents, damask mini cake, 3 tier Spanish lace design, 5 tier modified geometric with hexagonal layers and pink flowers.

B&W is also “back to the basics,” and “the power of shapes.” So in a lot of black & white cakes, you see an homage to the beautiful simplicity of the stacked cake shape.

But not these cakes!

These are cakes for fancy, swellegant black tie events, and  they’re about the jaw-dropping detail. These are the cakes you shake out your sequins for.

Credits: 3-tier painted Chandelier, upside-down Art Deco chandelier in white chocolate, painted 3-tier with outlined flowers, Spanish lace and stripes.

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charleston wedding 01.30.10 at 1:56 am

I am in love with the 3 tier with the outlined flowers! It's gorgeous.

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