Champagne: Chic and Elegant

Sometimes folks feel that white-on-white cakes don't pack enough punch; but they don't want to go crazy with color.

How about champagne??

Champagne is a deeper, fuller color than ivory (we wouldn't even consider it on the "white" spectrum), but it's still muted, classic, and elegant.

For this couple's wedding, we went with modern, square tiers and bamboo borders.  The cake was covered in champagne-colored rolled chocolate  (softening the corners of the square tiers), and then the fern design from the couple's invitations was translated into white rolled chocolate applique decorating the tiers.

Swiss Dot and Fresh Flowers!

 Becky and John's wedding cake was a beautiful demonstration of how fresh flowers can transform a wedding cake! 

Dessert Works decorated their cake with our sweet and simple Swiss Dot design.  On the bottom tier only, we brought in the couple's blue accent color with a fabric ribbon.

Fresh hydrangea poms, blossoms, and blush pink roses provided the finishing touches to pull everything together!  The fresh flowers then coordinated perfectly with the girls' bouquets, which provided additional decor to the cake table.

Edible images on a wedding cake!

We loved Kendra and Mike's thoughtful idea for a truly personalized wedding cake.  They decided to treat their wedding cake like a photo album, and to decorate it (literally) with memories of times shared together!

Each picture on the cake was printed in black and white as an edible image on sugar paper, then cut to size, applied on the cake, and "framed" in vanilla buttercream.  On the alternating tiers, the couple opted for Dessert Works' Wallace Scroll design in white to contrast and set apart the photograph tiers.

The bride's flowers included fuchsia Gerbera Daises, which Dessert Works created in edible form from buttercream for the cake's top bouquet.  Their honeymoon cake even included miniaturized versions of the pictures!  For an event that is a celebration of the couple and their relationship, how much more fitting could this design be.  Our best to the happy couple!

 

Made To Order Cannolis

To all you loyal fans of Dessert Works, I have some exciting news! We are now offering made-to-order cannolis in two different sizes, with or without chocolate chips. This is a new step for us at Dessert Works, and we strive to provide our customers with the ultimate in freshness and deliciousness. We hope you'll come in and get one.

• Small: $1.50
• Large: $3.00
• Add Chocolate Chips: $0.25

Filling cannolis is really fun.

Amy is filling the various sizes of cannoli shells.

Such Focus!

Small, small with chocolate chips, large, large with chocolate chips

New England Fall Foliage Wedding Cake

 Fall weddings in New England are in high demand - the region's autumn foliage provides a such a stunning backdrop; couples reserve fall dates far in advance to take advantage of the landscape.

With fall coming up quickly on the horizon, we thought we'd remind you of our decorators' talents in rolled chocolate.  We're honestly capable of paralleling and capturing nature's beauty on your wedding cake!  (**If you're unfamiliar with rolled chocolate, it's Dessert Works' preferred alternative to fondant.  Check out our previous blog post on this topic for more info on this medium.)

Here's a cake from September 2010: we did a top bouquet of rolled chocolate roses, calla lilies, autumn leaves, and even a baby pumpkin for the season!  We brought in a range of beautiful hues such burgundy, eggplant, deep sage, and burnt orange to evoke the feeling of autumn.

The sides of the tiers were decorated in our "Ivy with Fall Leaves" design, where both the ivy and the tiny "leaves" are piped on in our delicious vanilla buttercream. 

Royal Wedding Cake

Forgive us, things have been so busy at Dessert Works, we forgot to ask!

What did you think of the Royal Wedding Cake???

Fresh Flowers and a Classic Wallace Scroll

Christina and Mark were married in Fall 2010 at the Four Points by Sheraton, in Norwood, where Dessert Works is the package wedding cake provider for receptions.

Their design was completely in package (i.e. no additional out-of-pocket expense to the couple!) -- it included our classic Wallace Scroll design piped in white buttercream, accented by fresh flowers and a topper of the couple's married last initial.

Quite simple, yet quite elegant at the same time - wouldn't you agree?