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  Cakes with Fruit

  Fruits are a delicious and beautiful decoration for a cake; they can emphasize the mood, season, and style of the event. Small plums and grapes are elegant; if blue is p...
  

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  Working with Your Baker: Learn the Language

  That orange mousseline paired with white genoise and topped with alabaster fondant and miniature lilies sounds beautiful, but what exactly is it Like all specialists, b...
  

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  Working with Your Baker

  A wedding cake can be anything you want it to be: grand or petite, richly decorated or complex only in its flavor. Because there are so many ways to construct and design...
  

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  Dreamy Coconut Wedding Cake

  Prepare tiers (each tier consists of two layers): Trim and split layers; on corresponding-size boards, fill with coconut buttercream to a 4-inch height. Thinly coat tier...
  

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  Caramel

  Fill a large bowl or the sink with ice water. In a small saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and 2/3 cup water. Heat, without stirring, until mixture comes to a boil. C...
  

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  Mascarpone Cream Filling

  Beat mascarpone and sugar on medium speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk until combined. Add cream; beat until stiff.. You will need 7 1/2 batche...
  

• Cherry Buttercream

  Follow instructions for Vanilla Buttercream, adding 1/2 cup pureed sour cherries in step 5 (drain syrup from cherries before pureeing). ...
  

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  Cake Toppers: Marzipan Fruit

  Marzipan FruitThis ceramic basket overflowing with marzipan cherries and raspberries represents abundance. It is a distant cousin to the china vases filled with fresh fl...
  

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  Dessert Buffets: Homespun Sweets

  Wonderful for an afternoon wedding, perhaps one held outdoors, this display is inspired by seasonal fruits and reminiscent of a farmers' market, right down to the handwr...
  

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  Hellebore Wreath

  This cake has a breezy, chic feeling, thanks to a free-flowing ring of flowers encircling its middle tier. Two more blooms serve as a cake topper. The flowers are made o...
  

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