CAKES & CONFECTIONS
HOLLYWOOD CAKE STYLES
THIS
year, Piece of Cake Bakery is celebrating our 19th year in business. In 19 years we have witnessed a transformation in wedding cakes and the wedding cake industry. Our very first wedding cake was actually for a friend of mine. They were both UK fans, so their heart shaped wedding cake was iced in royal blue and white frosting with coordinating butter cream roses... a sight to see for sure! The first few years many of our cakes sat on tall stands with fountains filled with colored water underneath them. Some even had plastic stairs connecting satellite cakes to the main cake. Bride and groom cake toppers were the most common adornment for the tops of our wedding cakes. Eventually the fountains fell out of favor and were replaced with silver cake stands. We began to see more and more fondant accents on our wedding cakes. ENGAGED! RIVER VALLEY
Although we do not cover our cakes in fondant, we use our own made from scratch buttercream icing, sometimes with the addition of fondant swags attached to the sides of cakes and bows on top‌ and of course fondant flowers became ever present. For a while, our brides went wild, and we found ourselves creating wedding cakes safari themed with cheetah and zebra print - oh my! That trend lasted a hot minute, then brides reclaimed their senses.
Today's wedding cakes might be sitting on a gold stand and adorned with sparkly sugar with a customized wedding topper. Don't you just love Etsy? Another trend is a rustic wedding cake accented with burlap ribbon on a wood slab or better yet, a whiskey barrel. Fresh flowers are a perfect embellishment to almost any of today's wedding cake designs.
