These Are A Few Of My Favorite......................WEDDING CAKES!!!

I've had the chance to make some really amazing wedding cakes over the last few years so I thought I'd put together a little walk down memory lane featuring a few of my favorite wedding cakes!!

The one that started it all!

This is the very first wedding cake that my friend Linda convinced me that I should make for her daughter's wedding.  I had, after all, taken all three of the Wilton cake classes at our local hobby store!  It took some pretty major convincing from her to assure me that I could, indeed make a wedding cake, but at last I agreed--I found out later that her first, second, and perhaps third choice cake bakers were already booked and she was quite desperate by the time she talked me into what would turn out to be the beginning of a new career for me!

The Zebra Cake

Now this was a display cake I did for my very first bridal fair--It was enormous and quite an eye catcher, landing Cakes by Diane on the front page of the local newspaper!

The Luttrell

I have made this cake in about a dozen different variations--it was first ordered by the wonderful Luttrell family and so it has been christened by me as "The Luttrell."

Abby's Random Ribbon Wraps

I loved this cake so much that it adorned my first Cakes by Diane brochures and pamphlets.

The Snyder Cake

After I'd finished this cake I felt sure that I was finally a cake decorator!  The amazing photography of Dawn Muncy made the cake look even more grand!!

Kelly's monogrammed polka dots.

I loved this cake because it was so cute and colorful!

I love, love, love all of the beautiful flowers on this cake!!  

Pink and Bling

This cake was all pink and blingy and was really the centerpiece of the affair!!  I worked closely with wedding planner Amanda Sikich of Planned 2 Perfection to create this cake!!  

Natalie's Wedding Cake

This cake was so much fun to plan and make.  I spoke with bride-to-be Natalie for nearly 2 hours at our local Starbuck's to get all of the details just right for her peacock-themed wedding cake.

Black Damask

I had finally perfected the art of stenciling buttercream on buttercream when I finished this pretty cake!

Anne's Wedding Cake

My idea of the classic wedding cake--and the inside was so yummy too--vanilla/almond cake with almond pastry cream filling!!

I love working with all of the wonderful families who choose me to be their wedding cake designer.  It's because of them that I get to do something I truly love every single day!!

Finally I'm blogging!!

     Blogging!!!  I'm blogging--finally!!  Starting a blog was one of my New Year's Resolutions and finally, only a few weeks into the second month of 2011 here ya go!!!!  I thought I'd start with a little bit more about the Bridal Fair I participated in at the Oakwood Mall in Enid, OK.
    I brought lots of cake samples and cake truffles for the future brides to try and several display cakes for everyone to look at.  The cake samples included lemon poppyseed, lemon, carrot, german chocolate, cherry chip and red velvet flavors,  and were placed in containers with sealed lids so the future brides could not only taste the cake there but also take some home to the future grooms who had apparently come up with various fabulous excuses not to attend....hunting seemed to be the most popular excuse :)!   I also brought several samples of cake truffles, well I keep attempting to call them "cake truffles" to add a wee bit of elegance, but people keep asking for "cake balls" so, I brought a fair amount of delicious scrumptious cake ball truffles for everyone to try--They are simply cake centers dipped in chocolate--DELICIOUS!!!!

    
The sample cakes were displayed on a separate table and I loved answering this question--"What flavor are the cakes?"  I would respond with this clever retort, "Styrofoam".   They were all made of Styrofoam and have been displayed here and there during the last year.  A little more about the blue one in front.  It recently appeared in the current issue of Brides of Oklahoma  I was asked to design a cake that was inspired by turquoise sour belts.  Having never heard of that particular candy before, and having just a couple of days to come up with something, I frantically did a google search on the term and found it to be--oddly enough--belt-shaped turquoise candy!  As you may or may not know, I live in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma and turquoise sour belts are not readily available at the local Korner Store.  Luckily, the lovely editors of Brides of Oklahoma sent me some sample pictures of sour belts and the turquoise color they were interested in.  My daughter Jill helped with the design, there were a couple of shopping trips looking for some blingy stuff and the resulting cake is displayed below beside some other cakes I've done over the year and brought to the wedding show! 

 

The spread from the current Brides of Oklahoma magazine is shown below.

Oh--and those are what sour belts look like--wonder what they taste like?!?!?!?