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7/29/2019 Every Cake Tells a Story:Custom Cakes Jan13 v2 (1)
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Out with the ordinary. In with the innovative. Today’s
wedding c akes are masterpieces of c ollaboration between
cake virtuosos and bridal clients who want their cakes to
represent who they are.
“Individuality is huge right now,” says Anne Walsh,
marketing director and manager of Frederick’s Pastries
in North Andover. She credits the trend to social
media websites such as Pinterest – where a future bride
and groom can view wedding cakes from around the
world —and wedding planning sites such as The Knotand WeddingWire, and television shows such as TLC’s
“Cake Boss” and Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes” where
extravagant, one-of-a-kind cakes are the norm.
The secret of local cake aces? It’s not work (or so they
say). It’s play. “We do lots of fun stuff here,” says Erin
Erler, owner of Cakes by Erin in Haverhill. A self-taught
cake artist, her whimsical, nut-free cakes have appeared
on Food Network. She smiles as she describes a groom’s
cake she is creating for a couple who both adore “Portal,”
the online video game. “The bride’s goal,” says Erler, “is
to be able to look through the groom’s cake — which is
16-inches square and 2 feet high – and see around the
corner, periscope style.”
Anything goes a s long as it makes sense to bride and
groom. If they enjoy riding Harley-Davidsons, a dark
chocolate motorcycle-themed groom’s cake
with sugary resemblances of Harley-Davidso
enveloped in black, orange and white icin
please.
On the other hand, if bridesmaids are w
dresses with red accents, think ebony-colored
frosting with rose fondant accents – covering
velvet, German chocolate and vanilla cake.
If bride and groom are sailing to a trop
envision mango and Mediterranean blue
(Calla-Lily like flowers) climbing to greet t
has been put on a pedestal by her groom. A
encircles layers of French vanilla cake wifilling. And featureless faces may represent th
of love.
“For our wedding,” says Maria (Maya)
Cambridge, “my husband (Andre Ochoa) and
embody our fun and youthful personalities a
geeky interests. We had designed caricature
in Japanese cartoon and comic art style and
to incorporate this into our wedding cake. “
Enter cake wizard Rowena Sy-Santo
Kéyks in Chelmsford, who welcomed the ch
re-created their caricatures and a logo they
their names together (“Mayandre” for “Maya
which she integrated into the cyan blue icing
layers of chocolate and carrot cake. She the
cake was a thick ribbon of chocolate whic
the orange, blue and brown color scheme.“Importantly,” adds Medalla, “We al
sprinkling of white daisies in the design
second layer to remind us of a (humorous) sto
first and last time my husband gave me flowe
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every caketells a story:custom wedding cakesare as unique as the
couples that create them
by Bonnie W. Mason
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Every cake tells a different story, of course. And sometimes
the bride or groom fashions it. One local groom, for example,
envisioned a cake topper of two hikers with backpacks to
symbolize his active outdoor life with his future wife.
With the helpful encourage ment of cake artisa n, Lina
Hunter of Cakes by Design in North Andover, he sculpted
the hikers out of modeling clay and painted them with food
coloring.
Then Hunter decorated the smooth white three-layer cake
with lavender-colored wild flowers and spring-green vines. Inside
were th ree f lavors: chocolate ganache, marble with heath bars,
and plain-vanilla, all united with a strawberry filling. (Yum!)
He is not the only groom to get involved with cake design, of
course. When Cammi Valdez met her future husband, Clayton
Mathews, both of Boston, on Match.com in 2010, she was a
graduate student at Harvard working on a Ph.D. in Biological
and Biomedical Sciences and he was a professional violinist.
Soon they were dancing to the lyrics of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t
Help Falling in Love with You.” And fall in love, they did. “It
became our song,” says Valdez.
“We’re complete opposites,” says Valdez, “and the contrast
is refreshing.” So when they decided to marry, they wanted the
cake to celebrate who they were as a couple.
To do this, they commissioned Kéyks for two cakes, one
4-foot long cake in the shape of an “H” for Harvard, and a
groom’s cake, a carrot cake, with cheesecake filling, in the shape
of a violin -- which ended up looking real enough to play –
with edible sheet music. “Clayton made sheet music with lyrics
and notes on his computer and sent it to Rowena to copy,”
explains Valdez.
The music was the first dance song at their wedding. And
they’ve been dancing to it ever since. Valdez says, “Sometimes
we just sing the song a loud to each other in our living room
and we dance to it.”
Frederick’s Pastries
North Andover, Mass.
(978) 208-7806
Pastry.net
Cakes by Erin
Haverhill, Mass.
(978) 469-9136
CakesByErin.com
Kékys
Chelmsford, Mass.
(617) 855-KEYK
KeykGirl.com
Cakes by Design
North Andover, Mass.
(978) 975-8877CakesByDesignEdibleArt.com
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