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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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  Cutting and Preserving the Cake

  The first cut of the wedding cake is ceremonial. A knife tied with a ribbon is set next to the cake; the bride picks up the knife (it shouldn't be handed to her), and cu...
  

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  Monogrammed Cakes

  For centuries, monograms have been used to embellish items we cherish and hand down from generation to generation. They have rarely been used to decorate wedding cakes, ...
  

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  Calligraphy and Cakes: Write Your Vows

  This suite of sweets by Kromer features a graphic calligraphy-style motif and words from the classic wedding vows. The designs are incorporated into white-chocolate pane...
  

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  French Orange Pound Cake

  . In a cheerful tower of a cake, five deep hexagonal layers are iced with buttercream; the tiers are piped with a star tip in opposite directions for a patchwork effect. ...
  

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  Yellow and White: Sweet Little Daisies

  . Sugar-paste daisies drift down a fondant-covered cake, by Gail Watson of New York City. This effect is created by covering the top tier entirely with the blooms, and pl...
  

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  Calligraphy and Cakes: Love Letters

  Working with designer Denise Sharp, we took poetic license with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famed love sonnet, quoting it on a cake by Kromer. Sharp's calligraphed pape...
  

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  Cakes Decorated with Sugar Flowers: A Trio of Freesia

  Whimsical and lighthearted, these pretty little cakes -- a fresh alternative to a single grand confection -- are adorned with sprigs of sugar freesia in yellow, lavender...
  

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  Cake Toppers: Quilled Bells

  Quilled BellsAs legend has it, wedding bells ring out to announce a brand-new union to the world -- and also to frighten away any evil spirits. These bells and the wreat...
  

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