{"id":701,"date":"2015-02-13T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2015-06-14T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:58:04","slug":"best-food-porn-wedding-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/best-food-porn-wedding-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best In Food Porn Part 1: Wedding Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m getting married in June. This means I\u2019m spending a lot of time contemplating what wedding cake to get. This practice is making me crave all sorts of untoward treats. No wonder they call it \u2018food porn\u2019.<\/p>\n

Now if I had my way, given my love of icecream and chocolate, I\u2019d get an icecream and chocolate cake.<\/p>\n

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As I have Italian heritage (my mother is Sicilian), my reception is going to be Italian themed. You\u2019d think a gelato icecream would be perfect, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong!<\/p>\n

Apparently you\u2019re \u2018not allowed\u2019 to have icecream cakes as wedding cakes because of the melting issue. Additionally, despite it being an entirely delicious dessert that everyone would unreservedly gobble up, it\u2019s not photogenic enough.<\/p>\n

Humph. Weddings and their rules \u2026<\/p>\n

Choosing a wedding cake is such a personal thing. Budget aside, you have to consider theme, colour, size, taste and topple factor. Oh and melt factor too \u2026 apparently.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re looking to ensure your wedding photographer is a happy photographer (and you\u2019re pleased with the results), getting something that will look beautiful to include in a photobook<\/a>, on a canvas print or collage print is vital as well.<\/p>\n

While there are so many talented confectioners selling their wedding cake making services, it\u2019s important to choose someone who\u2019s got a good portfolio behind them \u2013 one that you can view at your leisure. Finding someone via a referral is even better. However, if you\u2019re after a croquembouche and the person who referred you had a traditional fruit cake, keep in mind that talents and specialties differ from confectioner to confectioner.<\/p>\n

Speaking of traditional fruit cakes, as someone who\u2019s attended 20 plus weddings in the last 25 years, one of the areas we, as a society, have most moved to in the right direction is the shift away from fruit cake and towards a variety of tasty classic sponge and cream flavours \u2013 vanilla, chocolate, red velvet etc.<\/p>\n

Today, a carefully iced sponge cake can match a traditional fruit cake in its appearance of tradition. The bonus is that\u2019s it\u2019s also a crowdpleaser. It\u2019s sweeter, but less rich and there will be fewer leftovers. People will actually eat it! The only shortfall is that, while an iced fruit cake might last for years in the freezer, its contemporary sponge counterpart will only last for a few months. That said, when it comes to cryogenics, I reckon that sugarpaste icing could very well outlive us all, I reckon (yes, I am exaggerating).<\/p>\n

Traditional white wedding cakes convey a sense of beauty, romance and femininity \u2013 all the ingredients for a fairytale wedding. Cast your eyes on these treasures.<\/p>\n

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Some of the larger, more extravagant cakes express love in ways that more humble lovers should never even begin to try understand. Try these on for size!<\/p>\n

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That all said, you don\u2019t need to rob a bank (or sacrifice that honeymoon shopping budget!) to offer something both gorgeous and delicious that your guests won\u2019t be too afraid to eat.<\/p>\n

A profiterole cake or croquembouche is a case in point. What\u2019s the difference between a profiterole tower and a croquembouche? The good news is, nothing! A croquembouche is, in fact, a fancy French name for profiterole tower. Profiteroles are essentially French \u2018cream puffs\u2019 and a croquembouche is a tower of \u2018cream puffs\u2019! Mmmmmm cream puffs \u2026<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re concerned about topple factor, the croquembouche is possibly not the right choice for you. I have been to a wedding where the croquembouche toppled and it\u2019s not a pretty sight. There is both art and science to perfecting a croquembouche, so you really need a Masterchef to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Personally, I am loving the cupcake craze at the moment. Cupcakes are not my mother\u2019s favourite dessert, so she\u2019s really not supportive of the idea. However, I find the more modern leanings towards wedding cupcakes and wedding cake pops are an absolute delight. They provide an opportunity for a bride and groom\u2019s unique characters to shine and are presented with such exquisite detailing.<\/p>\n

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In case you think my own denial of icecream cake has seen me focus only on the traditional, an expos\u00e9 on food porn would not be complete without this kinky number.<\/p>\n

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Bon app\u00e9tit\u00a0everyone! May your own wedding cake be delicious and plentiful \u2013 like your lives together. Oh – and don’t try to convince me that it’s my day so I ought to have my icecream cake and eat it too –\u00a0my mother will kill me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m getting married in June. This means I\u2019m spending a lot of time contemplating what wedding cake to get. This practice is making me crave all sorts of untoward treats. No wonder they call it \u2018food porn\u2019. Now if I had my way, given my love of icecream and chocolate, I\u2019d get an icecream and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weddings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}