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Girly and Feminine Wedding Cakes

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Decorating cakes so they are frilly and feminine is a real art. One of the most interesting of these cakes is the Pink Champagne wedding cake . This is not a new thing…the Pink Champagen Wedding Cake is actually a 100-year-old tradition. The cake was invented during the roaring twenties and it is basically a white cake in which all of the liquids (like water or milk) have been replaced by pink champagne. This gives the cake a distinctive fruity flavor.

 

In fact to make it at home all you have to do is buy a white cake mix and simply substitute pink champagne or even a rose for the liquids specified in the baking instructions. The frosting is also easily made out of butter, sugar, milk and champagne as well. The cake never naturally turns out pink so a few drops of red food coloring are added to the frosting to give it a delicate pastel rose hue.

 

Very few bakers nowadays make this retro style of cake but you can find it at the Kansas Steak Company online if you want to order one for a special celebration. However making one yourself is relatively inexpensive and also super-easy.

 

It is very traditional for wedding cakes to be decorated with edible pearls. Edible pearls are not anything fancy. They are simply tiny balls of fondant that have been rolled into tiny balls. They are then dusted with real edible pearl dust to give them their solid and shiny appearance and are often unmistakable for the real thing.

 

Real edible pearl dust can be bought online and eating it is supposed to have the same effects on a man as Cialis. Interestingly pearl dust is also sometimes sprinkled into glasses of poured champagne at weddings to make the drink less acidic and also make them glow a bit in the dark.

 

Edible pearls look great with natural wildflowers and that is a real decorating trend nowadays. Some cakes that are more feminine look fantastic with shiny ribbon wrapped around them or very polished strips of fondant.

 

If you a Cinderella bride then you will definitely want to look into the wedding cakes that are shaped like castles. Palace themed wedding cakes also suit people who are having the literal “fairy-tale” wedding such as a medieval wedding or one based on Disney. Believe it or not you can even get wedding gowns that are based on the gowns of Disney characters nowadays!

Decorating Cakes for the Groom

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Macho groom’s cake ideas are very current and trendy right now. Most are served up in real life at people’s weddings and were meant to be a source of humor and good fun.

 
The groom’s cake was always meant to be the wry answer to the frilly and often very feminine classic wedding cake. Nowadays you see a Groom’s cake at its most humorous extreme. On specialty cake websites you see cakes modeled after all kinds of different things including a dirty rubber boot, mugs of beers, roadkill (an armadillo run over by a truck, a set of barbells, a moose head and a giant electric guitar!

 

Groom cakes are tongue in cheek and can be related to any guy theme. You could have a cake in the shape of a cigar, like a fire engine or like a stripper. In fact if there is one kind of groom cake that most men enjoy it is one that is shaped like a sexy lady!

 

They say that beer and chocolate don’t go well together except when you are making a Guiness Cake. What is a Guiness cake? That is when you combine that dark frothy beer known as Guinness along with chocolate cake batter. The result is one of the hottest desserts to hit the web and the women’s magazines lately.

 
The great thing about Chocolate Guinness cake, which is also sometimes known as beer cake, is that is so masculine in flavor. It is also a dark color, which makes it ideal to be the look for a groomsman’s cake. Usually it is topped with a light cream cheese icing that has elements of cream cheese. This kind of cake is definitely a food for a special occasion as the Guinness beer in it give it a specific zingy taste that men love.

 

There are many different types of recipes for this cake online. You can find one on Oprah’s website and there is also a really great version of it at Everybody Likes Sandwiches. This is a great cake to decorate with booze filled chocolate candies as well!

 
It is also just more common in general to see cakes decorated with brown, grey or cream colored icings that are just more macho in look and style. Many of the more male cakes are very boozy with the flavors. Cakes made with hard liquors like Jack Daniels Bourbon Whiskey whereas cakes made with liquors such as grand marnier or Kahlua are more female in flair!