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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!

Decorating With Arched Doorway Kits

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If you want to completely change the look of your home then consider buying an arched doorway kit. These kits add a decorative curve over any entrance in your home. You don’t have to cut into the wall or anything invasive. Arched doorways are elegant, affordable and easy to install for most people because they are more tacked onto the door and covered with drywall. There is not a lot of altering of your home to do.

 

Until these archway kits appeared in our lives you would have found yourself paying a contractor to install this type of decorative touch in your home. The great thing is that enhancing the doorways like this really does make it appear like you have spent thousands on renovations when you really have not done anything of the kind. The really amazing thing is that you can get these arch kits for about thirty bucks and also install it in about half an hour. What a great way to add an architechtural touch that adds value to your home.

 

These arches have been associated with all kinds of classic architechture in the past including Spanish and Roman styles. You also seem them identified with more Gothic styles of décor.

 

Doorway arches have been associated churches and museums for many years. When you replace your square door frames with arched doorways you also get an architectural effect that is more Spanish or Graeco-Roman in effect. They are also associated with medieval buildings so if you are into a more Gothic style of décor you will love the look that doorway arches give your home.

 

There are several different styles of archways. The ones that arc up in a half circle are called “half rounds” and give a Spanish flair to a doorway, Elliptical shaped archway kits have a gentle raidius in the center with a tighter radius in the corners and are reminiscent of the Edwardian style of design. Eyebrow arches are square and sharper in appearance and have a more contemporary post-modern feel.’

 

If you like you can buy pre-fabricated doorway arches but these arch kits are the way to go if you really want to do things cheaply. Prefabricated doorway arches can cost anywhere from $60 to $500 depending on how decorative they are in style. The other thing to remember is to keep it simple! The simpler the arch the easier it will be to install by yourself!