I'm currently planning 2 weddings atm so I'm always looking for ideas/inspiration. You can watch Cake Boss S2 on Netflix. Watch S1 first if you want as well.
Challenge Criteria: In teams, each team got to pick a wedding theme. They had to then create the wedding cake to fit that theme with the hopes of winning a feature in Brides magazine.
Here are the inspiration tables for the challenge that the bakers had to choose from
Challenge Criteria: In teams, each team got to pick a wedding theme. They had to then create the wedding cake to fit that theme with the hopes of winning a feature in Brides magazine.
Here are the inspiration tables for the challenge that the bakers had to choose from
Hollywood Glamour- lots of b&w with pops of deep scarlet, art deco influences, feathers, etc. This is a very similar look & feel & theme of one of the weddings I'm planning right now.
Wedding dress: Ugo Zaldi
Wedding dress: Ugo Zaldi
Fantasy Princess- for the ultimate girly, girl who's been planning her wedding since age 5 when she married her Ken & Barbie dolls, loves pink (must be used in the cake), bling, and big princess dresses.
Wedding dress: Ines Di Santo
Wedding dress: Ines Di Santo
Vintage Romance-Lace, nature, Victorian elements, & gold patina etc.
Dress: Jenny Packham
And now the cakes
Dress: Jenny Packham
And now the cakes
Hollywood Glamour-I really like this cake. THe color story is nice, I like the use of the red at the top, and I like some of the ideas & the idea of the feathers. However, It feels like the cake is a bit bare in spots & the placement of the feathers doesn't work. Originally there was supposed to be a black horizontal band with a bow in the middle, but the bow hand problems and taking it off made a whole in the black fondant band so they bandaged it with the feathers. My fix would've been to either make a new bow or to fill in the hole by air spraying it black then taking the silver buttons swagged on the top tier to adorn the band.
Fantasy Princess- This theme honest makes me vomit in my mouth a bit. If you're not an actual princess then don't act like one. This day is not just your day all about you. It's about the joining of two people. Having that been said, it's a very fine line between Princess Wedding & Princess Sweet 16, and this cake crossed it partially due to the 19yr old unmarried team leader. Things I like: The bow on the 2nd to last tier & the use of pink at the top. The draping is also nice as well as the piping work on the top tier. Here's where it goes sweet 16: the bright pink color was the wrong shade. IF you look at the table: There were various shades of more adults pinks: this shade was not one of them. If they had done the base & the pink tier in an adult shade we'd be looking at a safe cake and not a losing one. Also, that silver band looks like aluminum foil, but they had to improvise since one of the bakers lost the crystals for that layer cuz she's a messy baker who can;t seem to keep her workstation neat.
Vintage Romance- This cake was exquisite and my favorite as well as the winner. The piping work was impeccable, the lace piping & fondant work really looks like lace, the color of the cake is perfect, and I really like the pink band with the bow even if the judges did not. The only problem with this was there wasn't a use of the gold color. They ran out of time. I'm just glad that the team listened to Marissa and not that electrician turned baker guy who wanted to make the actual cake gold: yikes. It would looked like a Vegas Chapel wedding cake.
Pictures from Brides.com & TLC.com
Fantasy Princess- This theme honest makes me vomit in my mouth a bit. If you're not an actual princess then don't act like one. This day is not just your day all about you. It's about the joining of two people. Having that been said, it's a very fine line between Princess Wedding & Princess Sweet 16, and this cake crossed it partially due to the 19yr old unmarried team leader. Things I like: The bow on the 2nd to last tier & the use of pink at the top. The draping is also nice as well as the piping work on the top tier. Here's where it goes sweet 16: the bright pink color was the wrong shade. IF you look at the table: There were various shades of more adults pinks: this shade was not one of them. If they had done the base & the pink tier in an adult shade we'd be looking at a safe cake and not a losing one. Also, that silver band looks like aluminum foil, but they had to improvise since one of the bakers lost the crystals for that layer cuz she's a messy baker who can;t seem to keep her workstation neat.
Vintage Romance- This cake was exquisite and my favorite as well as the winner. The piping work was impeccable, the lace piping & fondant work really looks like lace, the color of the cake is perfect, and I really like the pink band with the bow even if the judges did not. The only problem with this was there wasn't a use of the gold color. They ran out of time. I'm just glad that the team listened to Marissa and not that electrician turned baker guy who wanted to make the actual cake gold: yikes. It would looked like a Vegas Chapel wedding cake.
Pictures from Brides.com & TLC.com
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