Friday, December 16, 2011

Chocolate Cakes For Fall Weddings







Chocolate Cakes For Fall Weddings

There are certainly a large variety of chocolate cakes from which to choose. You can go with the classic basic chocolate, or choose a more exotic flavor like chocolate fudge, mocha, or truffle. Another tasty idea is to layer a chocolate cake with a fruit filling, such as raspberry or apricot. And then there is the frosting: you can opt for the smooth-as-glass effect of fondant icing, or go for the more natural look of a buttercream based frosting.
Chocolate cakes can be created in a design to match any wedding theme. You will want to make sure that your cake coordinates with the rest of the affair. Because the cake has become such an important style element, brides look at them almost like another accessory, like their headpiece or bridal jewelry. In fact, it is very common for brides to choose the details of their cake based on the elements of their bridal jewelry, such as using a crystal monogram as the cake topper to tie in with the crystals in their wedding jewelry.
Fall weddings often have a rustic look, and you can very easily bring that into your wedding cake. Chocolate frosting with a rougher bark-like texture makes the perfect backdrop for tiny little fall pumpkins, gourds, and flowers. These can either be real, or created from marzipan or gum paste. The tiny little sugar fruits and flowers are truly works of art.

Scrumptious Seaside Wedding Cakes






Scrumptious Seaside Wedding Cakes

One of the best motifs to use on a seaside cake is a seashell. Shells can be done in all sorts of ways. If you want an understated hint of oceana for your cake, think about a white on white seashell design. An elegant variation on this is blush pink shells tinged with gold edges. The most formal arrangement is to have the shells evenly spaced on each tier of the cake; if your style is a bit more modern, opt to have a variety of sugar shells cascading down the side of your cake.
An accent that works really well with shells is pearls. Especially if the bride is wearing a set of pearl bridal jewelry, it would be a fun touch to have a frosting oyster open to reveal a "pearl" as part of the cake design. You can also run with the theme by having strands of sugar pearl bridal jewelry wrapped around the base of each cake tier.
There are many other wonderful motifs for a seaside wedding cake. Fish and coral are great design elements that can easily add lots of beautiful colors to your cake. Imagine a cake iced with fondant "waves" in a watercolor effect with a school of bright red fish swimming around the circumference. Top it off with red faux coral sculpted into your initial. Or you can use line drawings in the shape of a fish in multiple colors across a smooth white fondant cake for a fresh and whimsical take on a tropical cake.

Unique and Adorable Wedding Favors for 2008







Unique and Adorable Wedding Favors for 2008

If you're planning a 2008 wedding, your one lucky bride - the new wedding favors for 2008 which were just recently released are not only extremely unique but adorable and affordable too. Brides who want to give a distinctive and memorable thank you gift to their guests will find that the 2008 wedding favors are not just pretty to look at but also functional and fun too.
Here are the 10 favorite new wedding favors for 2008:
· Passport To Love Passport Covers
· Something Blue Coaster
· Retro Candy Jar Salt & Pepper
· His and Hers Photo Magnet
· Mini Heart Handwarmers
· Love Keyboard Magnets
· Bride and Groom Keyboard Dusters
· "We Clicked" Round Mouse Pads
· Mini Slot Machines
· Mini Classic Gumball Machine