Cakes Sentence Examples

I can't go the rest of my life avoiding birthday cakes.

We did dance and play and eat nuts and candy and cakes and oranges and I did have fun with little boys and girls.

These cakes are sent out into commerce.

She led the detective through a kitchen cluttered with coffee cups, soiled plates and two half-eaten cakes.

It therefore comes near in time to the feast of unleavened cakes rather than to the later harvest festival in the month Sivan called "feast of weeks."

We went to the other side of the country to find her more funnel cakes.

In Gloucestershire simnel cakes are still common; and at Usk, Monmouth, the custom of mothering is still scrupulously observed.

The finer soaps are perfumed by the cold method; the soap is shaved down to thin slices, and the essential oil kneaded into and mixed with it by special machinery, after which it is formed into cakes by pressure in suitable moulds.

There are extensive gardens and nurseries in the neighbourhood of Pontefract, and liquorice is largely grown for the manufacture of the celebrated Pomfret cakes.

The suggestion that the eating of cakes of unleavened bread, similar to the Australian "damper," was due to the exigencies of the harvest does not meet the case, since it does not explain the seven days and is incongruous with the fact that the first sheaf of the harvest was put to the sickle not earlier than the third day of the feast.

The owners of adjacent lands assembled at the common boundary stone, and crowned their own side of the stone with garlands; an altar was set up and offerings of cakes, corn, honey and wine were made (later, a lamb or a sucking pig was sacrificed).

The cakes when completed are, in order to remove them from the mould, slit open with a sharp knife, which is kept wet, and are hung up to dry.

The flat rounded cakes of rubber made in this manner are known in the London market as " biscuits.

Ceara rubber is also exported in the form of lumps and cakes.

The calcination is preferably effected in mechanical roasters, it being especially necessary to agitate the ore continually, otherwise it cakes.

From Meroe to Memphis the commonest subject carved or painted in the interiors of the temples is that of some contemporary Phrah or Pharaoh worshipping the presiding deity with oblations of gold and silver vessels, rich vestments, gems, the firstlings of the flock and herd, cakes, fruits, flowers, wine, anointing oil and incense.

The juice is then drawn off and pumped up to one of the double-bottomed defecators and redefecated, or, where juice-heaters have been used instead of defecators, the scums from the separators or subsiders are heated and forced through filter presses, the juice expressed going to the evaporators and the scum cakes formed in the filter presses to the fields as manure.

The slices so blown up, or elevated, are passed through a mill which expels the surplus water, and are then pressed into cakes and dried until they hold about 12% of water and 88% of beet fibre.

These cakes, sold as food for cattle, fetch as much as £4 per ton in Rumania, where four or five beetroot factories are now at work.

It is fused up in iron basins lined with clay, and cast out into the customary form of cakes.

Special deities, moreover, will demand special victims, while the more rustic numina, such as Pales, should be given milk and millet cakes rather than a blood-offering.

On these occasions the Lares were crowned with garlands, and offerings of cakes and honey, wine and incense, but especially swine, were laid before them.

Till within recent times barley formed an important source of food in northern countries, and barley cakes are still to some extent eaten.

The maize was ground with a stone roller on the grinding stone or metlatl, still known over Spanish America as the metate, and the meal baked into thin oval cakes called by Aztecs tlaxcalli, and by Spaniards tortilla, which resemble the chapati of India and the oatcake of Scotland.

In Tirol cakes are left for them on the table and the room kept warm for their comfort.

He invented various cakes and sauces, and is said to have written on cookery.

One of the most useful nutritious species is Cetraria islandica, " Iceland moss," which, after being deprived of its bitterness by boiling in water, is reduced to a powder and made into cakes, or is boiled and eaten with milk by the poor Icelander, whose sole food it often constitutes.

Cakes were made of a certain shape to be eaten by the children, which were called, in Germany, Hamantaschen (Haman-pockets) and Hamanohren (Haman-ears), and in Italy, Orecchie d'Aman.

Besides gifts to friends, parents made Purim gifts to their children, especially in the form of Purim cakes.

Polish millet is P. sanguinale; P. frumentaceum, shamalo, a Deccan grass, is probably a native of tropical Africa; P. decompositum is the Australian millet, its grains being made into cakes by the aborigines.

The Last Plague, the Deliverance from Egypt, the Institution of the Passover and of the Feast of Unleavened Cakes, the Consecration of the First-born.-This section presents the usual phenomena of a composite narrative, viz.

The idea that Alfred, during his retreat at Athelney, was a helpless fugitive rests upon the foolish legend of the cakes.

Cakes of salt have been used as money in more than one part of the world - for example, in Abyssinia and elsewhere in Africa, and in Tibet and adjoining parts.

Here sacrifice was offered every year to Summanus on the 10th of June, together with cakes called summanalia baked in the form of a wheel, supposed to be symbolical of the car of the god of the thunderbolt.

One, called turanjbin, appears to exude, in small round tears, from the camelthorn, and also from the dwarf tamarisk; the other, sir-kasht, in large grains and irregular masses or cakes with bits of twig imbedded, is obtained from a tree which the natives call si g h chob (black wood), thought by Bellew to be a Fraxinus or Ornus.

During the procession a chant (also called eiresione) was sung, the text of which has been preserved in Plutarch (Theseus, '22) "Eiresione carries figs and rich cakes; Honey and oil in a jar to anoint the limbs; And pure wine, that she may be drunken and go to sleep."

Rye is extensively employed in the rural districts for the making of a hard bread in flat cakes (knackebriid).

Sugar is principally extracted from this species, the sap being boiled and the syrup when reduced to a proper consistence runs into moulds to form cakes.

Before the crop is all gathered in a meeting of buyers and sellers takes place in each district, at which the price to be asked is discussed and settled, and the opium handed to the buyers, who in many instances have advanced money on the standing crop. When sufficiently solid the pieces of opium are packed in cotton bags, a quantity of the fruits of a species of Rumex being thrown in to prevent the cakes from adhering together.

Tokat opium resembles that of Malatia, but the cakes are flatter, and the paste is similar in character, though the leaves covering it are of a yellower tint of green.

Gheve opium formerly came over as a distinct kind, but is now mixed with other varieties; the pieces form small rounded cakes, smooth and shining like those of Angora, about 3-6 oz.

From the store about 250 inaunds are taken daily to be manufactured into cakes.

The average number of cakes that can be made daily by one man is about 70, although 90 to 100 are sometimes turned out by clever workmen.

The cakes are liable to become mildewed, and require constant turning and occasional rubbing in dry " poppy trash " to remove the mildew, and strengthening in weak places with fresh poppy leaves.

By October the cakes are dry and fairly solid, and are then packed in chests, which are divided into two tiers of twenty square compartments for the reception of as many cakes, which are steadied by a packing of loose poppy trash.'

The care bestowed on the selection and preparation of the drug in the Bengal opium-factories is such that the merchants who purchase it rarely require to examine it, although permission is given to open at each sale any number of chests or cakes that they may desire.

It is made up in cakes of 50 grammes, but is not produced in sufficient quantity to become an article of wholesale commerce.

For the protection of the impression, in the 12th and 13th centuries, when it was an ordinary custom to impress the seals on thick cakes of wax, the surrounding margin rising well above the field usually formed a suitable fender; at other times, as in the 14th and 15th centuries, a so-called wreath,1 or twisted shred of parchment, or plaited grass or reed, was imbedded in the wax round the impression.

The principal drinks are mese, a kind of mead, and bousa, a sort of beer made from fermented cakes.

At this time took place the mysterious distribution of chapatis, small cakes of unleavened bread, which had previously been known in connexion with the mutiny at Vellore (1806).

On the first day, which celebrated the union of Adonis and Aphrodite, their images were placed side by side on a silver couch, around them all the fruits of the season, "Adonis gardens" in silver baskets, golden boxes of myrrh, cakes of meal, honey and oil, made in the likeness of things that creep and things that fly.

The roots are cut into fingers and supplemented by an allowance of concentrated food made up of a mixture of ground cakes and meal, 4 lb rising to about 1 lb; and a lb to I lb of hay per day.

The fuel employed should be non-bituminous coal anthracite or coke, or at least so much of these materials should be mixed with ordinary coal that no semi-solid cakes of the kind just described are formed.

The vrivTELa on the third day of the Thesmophoria at Athens was observed only by the women attending the festival (who were permitted to eat cakes made of sesame and honey).

Cakes of meal, honey and oil were offered to the two deities at this festival.

Flesh is their favourite, in winter almost their only food, though they also use reindeer milk, cheese and rye or barley cakes.

Since the 9th century it has been customary for the popes to bless these cakes, and distribute them on the Sunday after Easter among the faithful, by whom they are highly prized as having the power to avert evil.

The food of the Irish was very simple, consisting in the main of oaten cakes, cheese, curds, milk, butter, and the flesh of domestic animals both fresh and salted.

The cakes are allowed to remain under pressure for about seven minutes.

Of course the cold pressed cakes must be first disintegrated, which may be done under an edge-runner.

The warm meal is then delivered through measuring boxes into closed pressbags ("scourtins" of the "Marseilles" press), or through measuring boxes, combined with an automatic moulding machine, into cloths open at two sides (Anglo-American press), so that the preliminarily pressed cakes can be put at once into the hydraulic press.

It represents an open press fitted with a number (usually sixteen) of iron press plates, between which the cakes are inserted by hand.

A hydraulic ram then forces the table carrying the cakes against a press-head, and the exuding oil flows down the sides into a tank below.

The edges of the cakes invariably retain a considerable portion of oil; hence the soft edges are pared off, in the case of the oblong cake in a cakeparing machine, and the parings are returned to edge-runners, to be ground up and again pressed with fresh meal.

Through the introduction of the cage (clodding) presses circular cakes have become fashionable, and as the material of these presses can be made much stronger and therefore higher pressure can be employed, more oil is expressed from the meal than in open presses.

The cakes obtained in the foregoing process still retain considerable proportions of oil, not less than 4 to 5% - usually, however, about io %.

It is true that on the continent extracted meal, especially rape meal from good Indian seed and palm kernel meal, are somewhat largely used as focd for cattle in admixture with press cakes, but in England no extracted meal is used for feeding cattle, but finds its proper use in manuring the land.

It is thought that it may have been derived from the Roman Terminalia, a festival celebrated on the 22nd of February in honour of Terminus, the god of landmarks, to whom cakes and wine were offered, sports and dancing taking place at the boundaries.

The hashish in such extensive use in Central Asia is often seen in the bazaars of large cities in the form of cakes, 1 to 3 in.

We design all our own cakes and all of our bases are produced in our own purpose built bakery.

Children love savory biscuits, try Quaker's mini rice cakes with different flavors.

All the gifts used in our cakes are of the highest quality and we use top brand names where applicable.

Volunteers manned the stalls, selling bric-a-brac, books, toys, clothes and cakes.

Instead of cakes or biscuits, try having a currant bun, a slice of melon or some malt loaf with low-fat spread.

Whether its diving into the canal, or baking cakes, they were the boys to call.

For a £ 2 entrance fee, there is a variety of music and dancers are treated to cream teas with homemade cakes.

The Ultimate Book of Wedding cakes This book offers over 30 original wedding cakes to inspire all cake decorators who understand basic sugarcraft skills.

Fairy cake Message decorations - From £ 7.95 Edible cake decorations, printed with your message to decorate your own fairy cakes or cupcakes.

Beach wedding cakes Looking for beach theme wedding cake ideas?

You got through another packet of Jaffa cakes today!

Our organic wedding cakes are made to order, with cream colored icing, decorated with fresh flowers and tiny gold cherubs.

It was just like an old-fashioned slapstick comedy where people threw cakes at each other.

She just recently cried cos she can''t eat the cakes and chocolates that we had.

T O Williams sell fresh bread and cakes and also has a delicatessen counter offering meats and cheeses.

She needed some cakes to be sent by courier, all to arrive on the same day.

This was served with Mr Carrot Cakes home made vanilla ice cream.

Personally, I like these cakes highly spiced and use at least 1 dessertspoon aniseed and 1-2 tablespoons cumin.

Our Mini Heart Baking Pan will make 6 attractive heart-shaped desserts or cakes for a dinner party or special occasion.

These are particularly found in red meat, meat pies, sausages, butter, cheese, cakes and biscuits made with hydrogenated fats.

When baking flapjacks and cakes, try to sweeten them with fruit juice, such as apple, rather than copious amounts of sugar.

We are happy to prepare a packed lunch with homemade flapjacks or cakes for your day's activities.

It is indispensable when baking with unusual flours, helping give lift to cakes made from cornmeal, buckwheat flour and millet flour.

We can also provide beautiful silk flower arrangements for homemade or shop bought cakes.

Grooms Cake Traditional wedding cakes were once tiered, white cakes with basic butter cream frosting with a plastic bride and groom on top.

We started with some polystyrene dummy cakes to get the right shape and then set out to make the actual fruitcakes.

Many competitors will take chocolate, baby food, rice cakes and rice back stage with them for quick energy and muscle fullness.

Cakes are created from carrot cake, rich chocolate ganache, traditional brandy ' marinated ' !

Our cakes exclude any garnishes and decorations as everyone has their own ideas of how to decorate their ' cake ' .

We can also make delicious cakes to order for special diets including gluten, dairy & nut free.

Lebkuchen spice mix (organic) I remember the smells of Christmas biscuits and cakes being made.

All the cakes are made with butter which gives a much better flavor than can be achieved using even the best quality margarine.

More edible gifts include the always acceptable Christmas cakes, puddings and delicious mince pies or make your own edible gifts with organic ingredients.

You also need 2 cakes of Chinese medium egg noodles.

You can have one oatcake or three rice cakes for just 1 POINTS value.

Also on site is a coffee shop selling a wide range of delicious cakes, scones, quiches and savory pies.

Offer bread sticks, mini rice cakes or plain popcorn instead of crisps, or small packets of dried fruit.

Our new range of cakes is also extremely popular.

One unusual way in which the community was involved in this project was in baking cakes for the free interval refreshments!

The soup was vegan which had my daughter sorted and I had mushroom risotto cakes with fresh vegetables, which were very good.

Don't eat too much salty, fatty or sugary foods such as crisps, burgers and cakes.

A super stylish way to serve cream cakes or cucumber sandwiches!

Strawberries & cream, stalls, home made cakes and famous cheese scones, raffle, tombola, children's stalls.

The cake stand has a couple of tiny light scratches to the plate, probably got from cutting cakes!

I'll be clearing out my desk, buying cakes for the office, the whole shebang.

Have you been smoking too much skunk or eating too many hash cakes?

Their cakes look yummy, but I never get round to one, given the size of their baked spuds.

Our cakes get squiffy in direct sunlight or near a source of heat - please protect them from these.

The excellent tearooms, renowned for its excellent Welsh cakes and serves hot and cold food all day.

Welcome to Sweet Art Cakes Sweet Art Cakes deliver the utmost in style and creativity.

I made fairy cakes and covered them in white icing and piped a chocolate spider web on them.

Long serving staff took their final tea break surrounded by boxes of chocolates and cakes donated by well-wishers.

Books are a celebration and are launched with a few glasses of wine and some welsh cakes.

In the local museum are tiles used for stamping cakes of sulphur, which show that the mines, at any rate from the 3rd century, were imperial property leased to contractors.

The primitive philosophy to which these conceptions belong has to a great degree been discredited by modern science; yet the clear survivals of such ancient and savage rites may still be seen in Europe, where the Bretons leave the remains of the All Souls' supper on the table for the ghosts of the dead kinsfolk to partake of, and Russian peasants set out cakes for the ancestral manes on the ledge which supports the holy pictures, and make dough ladders to assist the ghosts of the dead to ascend out of their graves and start on their journey for the future world; while other provision for the same spiritual journey is made when the coin is still put in the hand of the corpse at an Irish wake.

Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as on terra firma, by the passage of the sleds over the same track, and the horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed out like buckets.

Sometimes one of those great cakes slips from the ice-man's sled into the village street, and lies there for a week like a great emerald, an object of interest to all passers.

The old people sat with the old, the young with the young, and the hostess at the tea table, on which stood exactly the same kind of cakes in a silver cake basket as the Panins had at their party.

On the tray was a bottle of herb wine, different kinds of vodka, pickled mushrooms, rye cakes made with buttermilk, honey in the comb, still mead and sparkling mead, apples, nuts (raw and roasted), and nut-and-honey sweets.

The cakes would then be exported and reconstituted with water to make a cold drink.

Do n't eat too much salty, fatty or sugary foods such as crisps, burgers and cakes.

A super stylish way to serve cream cakes or cucumber sandwiches !

Good for strolling, shopping and scoffing cream cakes at the legendary Betty 's Tea Shop.

Strawberries & cream, stalls, home made cakes and famous cheese scones, raffle, tombola, children 's stalls.

The cake stand has a couple of tiny light scratches to the plate, probably got from cutting cakes !

Treat yourself to a Fair Trade coffee or tea to wash down the scrumptious cakes.

The size of the slag cakes is related to the size of the smelting furnaces, which must have been quite large.

The ovens provide for warmth and cooking, burning dried cakes of cattle dung mixed with straw, which will smolder for hours.

You can enjoy a tasty snack at lunchtime or afternoon tea with traditional scones and home made cakes.

And, while coffee, cakes and strudel are fine too, they ca n't quite match the splendor of the architecture itself.

Souvenirs will be on sale for stocking fillers along with tea, coffee, cakes and mince pies to keep our visitors warm.

Around the 18th century a more superstitious belief was related to wedding cakes.

Caroline ordered spicy crab cakes with a tamarind sauce £ 5.90.

Sample dishes; Fried cassava with tamarind chutney, Spicy yogurt curry and lentil rice, Chickpeas served with lentil cakes and coconut chutney.

Serve the crab cakes hot with the tartar sauce.

The menu ranges from generous breakfast buns to delicious cakes and tray bakes.

Yes, you can get Lyle 's Golden Syrup cakes, biscuits, flapjacks, treacle tarts and fruit bread.

The baker did an excellent job of creating formulae for making her cakes perfectly moist and delicious.

Use two 9 X 13 cakes for the base, and then create a headboard on one side by cutting a round cake in half and 'gluing' these two halves on one end of the 9 X 13 cakes with frosting.

Baby Blocks Cake - Cut rectangular cakes into squares (two layers high) and frost on five sides.

Cool the cakes for about ten minutes in the pans before moving them to cooling racks.

Cool cakes completely before trying to frost.

From traditional cakes to diaper cakes and cupcakes, baby showers are full of creative displays.

While you'll still need to choose the cakes, order the favors, and find the perfect gowns, the links we provide will allow you to create the invitations with just a click of the mouse.

Diaper cakes are always popular centerpieces.

For example, if you choose a teddy bear theme, you can create teddy-shaped cakes, cupcakes with teddy adornments, and teddy bear cookies.

Baby shower block cakes are great for any shower.

Baby shower block cakes are the perfect choice for boy, girl, or neutral gender themes.

Many of them may feature block cakes as an option.

Ask to see a catalog of the various cakes that are available.

You can either make one large block, or you can make three or four smaller cakes.

If you made several smaller cakes, follow the same process, and decorate them accordingly.

Diaper cakes made from preemie diapers and decorated with other fun baby items are a creative and unique gift.

Lil Baby Cakes has some examples of cakes you can make or purchase.

Sheet cakes for baby showers can be a versatile dessert choice for both large and small parties.

When people think of sheet cakes, they often think of the large, Texas-style sheet cake that's actually prepared in a cookie sheet rather than a cake pan.

However, the rectangular cakes that are decorated and sold commercially are also referred to as sheet cakes.

Sheet cakes for baby showers can be baked, iced, and decorated at home.

Sometimes a friend or family member who decorates cakes for fun or profit may be willing to donate her skills for the baby shower cake, and this gift of time and skill should not be taken for granted.

Decorated cakes take many hours of work, and it takes a lot of experience in cake decorating to produce a polished and lovely cake.

Many grocery store bakeries offer custom cakes at reasonable prices, and they can also bake and frost a simple sheet cake for decoration.

Although a cake is quickly eaten, sheet cakes for baby showers will be in pictures that are viewed for many years into the future.

Baby shower cakes can be elaborate, tiered fondant creations or simple sheet cakes with the words "congratulations mom" or "welcome baby" on them.

Diaper cakes have been around at least since the 1980s, but in recent years, they have seen a dramatic increase in popularity.

Both beautiful and practical, diaper cakes make great conversation starters at a shower, and they can double as a table decoration.

In recent years, many Internet businesses have begun to make and sell diaper cakes, but you can save money and add creative flair by making your own.

Taller cakes are a little more challenging, but they also make a bigger impact.

Homemade decorations and centerpieces like gift baskets filled with useful baby items, diaper cakes, and baby bottle centerpieces are pretty and also practical after the baby is born.

Diaper cakes are popular shower gifts, and they also make great table centerpieces at baby showers.

Standard diaper cakes usually contain newborn diapers, baby blankets, rattles, small toys, pacifiers, and layette items.

Diaper cakes are a challenging but rewarding shower gift.

Diaper cakes make great group gifts, since they contain so many helpful items for the mom-to-be.

There are many creative possibilities for diaper cakes.

Diaper cakes are a popular item at baby showers because of the many creative ways to present a practical gift.

The Internet also allows people to find hundreds of patterns for simple or complex diaper cakes.

There are websites with galleries of diaper cakes photos showcasing patterns for idea sharing.

This easy access to diaper cake ideas has made it possible for more people to make diaper cakes than ever before.

Cake types generally fall into categories such as theme cakes (ex. cartoon characters), gift packages of related items, multiple unrelated gifts.

Consulting a website with examples of diaper cakes can help you figure out the best way to make your own cake.

For a fee of $14.95, customers get access to three comprehensive diaper cake training lessons that add up to 15 videos that teach people how to make many different styles of diaper cakes.

The company specializes in cakes, candy, chocolate, gift baskets and other miscellaneous items such as toys, jewelry and meat/cheese trays.

Also consider making other items from scratch like pasta, pastries and cakes.

Christmas cakes run the gamut from plain cakes decorated with red and green icing to fruitcake, Italian Panettone, and King Cake, which is served on the Epiphany to celebrate the arrival of the kings to the manger.

While there are traditional cakes for just about every holiday, there seems to be no specific cake that represents Easter.

What we find is that there are just delicious cakes that are iced with frosting colored in festive pastels.

Make regular cakes and treats suitable for Easter by adding special decorations, following Easter design templates, or creating your own designs.

You can widdle a cake in to darn near anything these days thanks to the new art form of extreme cakes.

Not the tidiest of cakes, but the effect is cool and very gross.

Lo Mein noodles can be cut to smaller sizes at the proper bends then inserted in the sides of cakes to look like hands.

Duff, the head chef and owner of Charm City Cakes in Illinois, is probably one of the most well known pastry chefs in the world, but not for creating beautiful wedding cakes seen at Governors' Balls and what not.

Duff is a genius when it comes to extreme cakes.

Make 2 sheet cakes and choose a filling.

Making 3D cakes or extreme cakes require you to do some carving.

Avoid cakes that have "moist" on the box or "fudge" or added ingredients like chocolate chips or funfetti.

These cakes will crumb even if you freeze them a bit.

Fondant and modeling chocolate make a cake look great - especially Halloween cakes as you can make a stark white fondant covering and do blood splatter on it.

Halloween cakes can live or die on the filling.

It is because of leavening agents that your cookies, breads, and cakes rise and your pastries are light and flaky.

Baking soda will be found in bread recipes (soda bread), cookies, cakes, and just about anything that you would need to get a rise from.

Top cakes or other desserts with fresh fruit instead of icing.

You can always add small crab cakes, puff pastry stuffed with seafood salad, any selection of dumplings, spanakopita, Hummus, small sandwitches, Salsa, or deviled eggs.

All Recipes has thousands of recipes that you can search for, and in fact has an entire dedicated holiday baking section if you are looking for cakes, pies, and breads.

Perhaps you have been left holding the bag (think making two dozen cup cakes for school late at night before a bake sale) or maybe you have a business presentation that you waited until the last minute to pull together.

These ingredients create a flavorless egg replacer that works best in baked goods like cakes, muffins and cookies, but also works well as a binder for dishes like vegan "meat" loaf or casseroles.

In traditional pancakes, eggs help the cakes stay light and fluffy, keep their shape, and hold together.

In an eggless pancake recipe, the final cakes will still be light, fluffy, and tasty as long as other ingredients are included that fulfill the normal tasks of eggs.

Sprinkle nibs on top of cupcakes, frosted cakes, pots de crème, cappuccinos, or hot cocoa.

However, there are a variety of other apple-inspired baked goods, such as apple bread, apple crisp, apple cakes, and apple cookies.

There will be so much to plan like rehearsals, flower arrangements and wedding cakes, that at the end of the process you'll be glad you did.

Simple cakes with fresh flowers are perfect for almost any wedding.

Some bakers offer both cakes as part of a package.

Looking at a gallery of wedding cake pictures is the only way to see just how many styles, shapes, colors, sizes and designs of wedding cakes are available.

Some couples even choose cakes that aren't cakes at all; wedding cupcakes are very popular, and unique confections such as a Krispy Kreme wedding cake or other desserts can also take the place of a traditional cake.

Professional bakers generally keep a portfolio of cakes to show the range of their design techniques, and many galleries are available at wedding websites or forums and in bridal magazines.

Traditional wedding cakes are round, white, layer cakes with white or cream colored frosting in a tiered format.

Many brides choose to accent traditional cakes with real or silk flowers that complement their wedding colors.

Chocolate mousse-filled cakes and the Italian casada (strawberry and custard) cake are popular cake flavors.

In addition, heart-shaped, rectangular, hexagonal, and column cakes are becoming more popular.

Many bakeries are willing to mix shapes, such as round and square cakes layered to resemble a stack of presents.

Many bakeries are willing to create customized cakes, such as Cinderella's castle, a Christmas tree, a sandcastle, and much more.

Keep in mind that most wedding cakes have height as a factor for dramatic effect.

From elegant wedding cakes with simple sophistication to outrageously unique one-of-a-kind wedding cakes, there is no limit to the creativity and deliciousness of this traditional dessert.

When a couple examines pictures of wedding cakes, they may like the look of a particular cake without quite knowing why.

For more unique designs, consider heart shapes, offset tiers, or wedding sheet cakes.

Cupcake wedding cakes are an interesting and tasty new trend.

Instead of making a large, multi-tiered wedding cake, the Happy Couple can instead opt for a "cake" made of of mini cakes, or cupcakes.

Because cupcakes aren't as big or elaborate as traditional wedding cakes, they don't require as much attention and care.

It's true, traditional wedding cakes are reaching new levels of design.

Cupcake wedding cakes are a lot of fun to decorate and can be as casual or elaborate as you like.

Order two smaller cakes, each in the theme and flavor your daughter's love, or provide two separate styles of dessert.

This includes hand-painted chocolates, handmade chocolates designed in forms such as miniature wedding cakes or presents, and candy bouquets.

Although the traditional tiered white wedding cake is still popular, more couples are choosing unique wedding cakes.

Modern wedding cakes can be reflective of a couple's personalities, a special wedding theme, or some other source of inspiration -- your imagination is the only limit.

Or, ask our wedding expert, Sharon Naylor for advice on wedding cakes or any other burning wedding questions you might have.

Unique wedding cakes can be pieces of confectionary artistry, conversation pieces, and reflective of you and your new spouse's sense of style and personalities.

Some depart from standard wedding cakes to incorporate part of their heritage or ethnic background.

Unique wedding cakes can be as simple as choosing new and different flavors and fillings.

Carrot, spice, Dessert Recipes apple or applesauce, and nut cakes are wonderful for fall or harvest weddings.

The embellishment and presentation is also part of creating unique wedding cakes.

Snow globes are beautiful and unique toppers for wedding cakes.

No longer are cakes mass produced three tiered confections complete with smiling bride and groom on top, now they're individual, personalized affairs.

Your pastry chef and florist are sure to have several brilliant ideas for decorating wedding cakes with flowers.

Music boxes come in all shapes and sizes, many are appropriate for wedding cakes.

Click on any of the wedding cake topper pictures below for related information about wedding cake toppers, cakes, and other wedding planning details.

As oppposed to traditional white wedding cakes, grooms' cakes are often made with chocolate or fruit.

There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to grooms' cakes, so you can choose whatever flavors will delight your loved one's palate.

You can choose themes or cake decor that reflects his personality or interest, such as sports-themed cakes.

Fountain wedding cakes are elegant, beautiful, and a perfect way to showcase the cake as a primary focal point of the reception.

There are as many different types of fountain cakes as there are brides.

The cake itself, like other wedding cakes, is designed with the specifications, detail, colors, and/or flowers of the wedding, so each cake is unique.

Keep in mind to that not every company offering chocolate fountain wedding cakes is the same.

The popularity of unique groom cakes has risen, making more and more couples chose to showcase their cakes at the reception.Getting a groom cake may take a little work.

Some wedding cake designers only do traditional cakes, while others may not have a range of flavors and fillings.

Grooms often choose cakes that reflect their interests or occupations.

These cakes can be done in a variety of shapes, like ducks, cars, or even frogs for fairytale themed weddings.

Often done with a combination of fondant and buttercream icing, these cakes are showpieces.

However, with wedding cakes incorporating multiple flavors and fillings, groom cakes have gone beyond the decadent chocolate flavors of the past.

Some grooms are happy with regular cakes.

For chocolate cakes, a ganache can be beautiful.

Cakes with fillings often have the flavor accented on the outside of the cake if the design is simple.

Chocolate covered strawberries adorn many chocolate or strawberry cakes, while lemon and orange zest make colorful accents on fruit filled cakes.

Extravagant cakes can cost upwards of twelve dollars.

Today's couples, however, have many different options for creating incredibly unique cakes to celebrate their nuptials with sweet sensationalism.

To make larger cakes, many bakers are willing to fashion bottom tiers out of cardboard with decorative icing, and only the top layers of the cake are edible.

Vanilla cakes are the most popular wedding flavor, with marble, chocolate, carrot, and red velvet options also among the top choices.

Candy-centered cakes that incorporate candy bars, cookies, or other crumbled treats into the batter.

Round cakes are the most common and therefore the most predictable, while square wedding cakes are also growing in popularity.

With care, wedding cakes can even be made into the shapes of initials, hollow circles, or themed items (shells, Christmas trees, etc.) for the ultimate in personalization.

Some cakes are even completely crazy shapes, with each layer being different and angled to create an unbalanced yet charming design.

Arrange satellite cakes around the larger centerpiece cake to increase the illusion of size and add variety to the cake table.

Despite all the different variations of one-of-a-kind wedding cakes, some couples prefer to really go into unexplored territory with completely unique confections.

A Krispy Kreme wedding cake, for example, uses donuts instead of sponge cake as a central treat, and a similar motif can be fashioned with Twinkies or other snack cakes.

Unique cakes may be delightful to behold, but there are problems with these unusual designs.

Wedding cake prices are higher for one-of-a-kind wedding cakes because they take longer to design and assemble.

One-of-a-kind wedding cakes are a fun, delicious way for couples to inject their personalities into the wedding festivities.

Choosing to make cookies in the shape of wedding cakes makes a great favor as well.

For those who are making their own wedding cakes, making edible leaves is fairly easy.

Chocolate frosted cakes could even be decorated using melting chocolate poured into molds.

When it comes to creating seasonal cakes, your baker is sure to have book upon book of ideas and designs.

Choices may include diamond rings, wedding cakes, flowers, wedding paraphernalia, landscapes, candles, champagne bottles or glasses, seasonal images, or abstract designs.

For an informal wedding, sheet cakes with screened or airbrushed Nightmare images would also work well.

Wedding cakes are elegant fantasy confections and delicious treats, but pictures of wedding cupcakes can prove that these simple snack-sized cakes can be just as gorgeous for a wedding celebration.

There are many ways to personalize cupcake wedding cakes to suit any couple's dessert preferences.

Cupcakes can easily be used to supplement smaller cake designs or may be arranged in alternating tiers with more traditional cakes.

Whatever dessert options a couple is interested in can be made into beautiful and elegant wedding cakes to add a sweet touch to their special day.

Black and white wedding cakes are sophisticated and elegant, but even with this monochrome color palette there are dozens of variations to create a unique and extraordinary wedding cake.

There are many ways to design black and white wedding cakes, and couples can easily create a design to match patterns and themes for their wedding.

The following websites all feature different black and white cakes that can serve as inspiration for any couple's monochrome cake.

While black and white cakes may be starkly elegant in their own simple way, many couples prefer to add a simple burst of color to the cake design.

While black and white cakes may be sleek designs, they are not appropriate for every celebration.

Black and white wedding cakes are gorgeous creations that focus on the beauty of the wedding cake design rather than a riot of colors.

Perfect for both sophisticated formal events and more casual gatherings, black and white cakes cleverly showcase the drama of the wedding with a minimalist, stunning palette.

Specialty chocolatiers may even offer truffles in the shape of tiered wedding cakes, or other specialized shapes such as butterflies or shells may be perfect for different wedding themes and destinations.

Creative wedding cakes take a bit more imagination and planning than the traditional ones, but that's where the fun comes in!

Sometimes the most creative wedding cakes aren't even cakes at all.

Don't feel limited to the traditional white, several-tiered cakes that have been around for decades.

White cakes are beautiful, but not for everyone.

You may think wedding cakes are some of the blandest cakes out there, and when they're usually white or yellow cake on the inside with white frosting, it's no wonder!

These are usually tower-like cakes made of cream puffs, caramel, sometimes sugared almonds, and chocolate in a cone shape, sometimes with added flavorings.

If you feel that wedding cakes are a waste of money, or if you'd just prefer to have a dessert spread, you can still appease the crowd with a "cake."

You can choose from sheet cakes (cut behind the scenes), or set up a whole table full of desserts like crème brulee, wedding cupcakes, cookies, and more.

You could design your perfect wedding cake by looking at cake sites that feature not only wedding cakes, but retirement cakes, birthday cakes, and even baby shower cakes.

Crazy grooms cakes can be a fun way to indulge in the wild side and celebrate the groom during the wedding festivities without jeopardizing the formality of the actual wedding cake.

Instead, couples can opt for crazy grooms cakes to show their wild and silly sides.

Many couples opt to display and share groom's cakes alongside the wedding cake at the reception, but they are also great options for the wedding rehearsal dinner, a couple's wedding shower, or a bachelor party.

Chocolate groom's cakes are popular options, as are liqueur flavored cakes, candy bar confections, and rich cheesecake flavors topped with sauces, nuts, or fruit.

Bundt cakes, brownies, pies, donuts, and other pastries can all be used for a groom's cake alternative with sweet results.

Furthermore, the groom himself could be offended at exaggerated designs or cakes that play up personality traits he may not be fond of.

Crazy grooms cakes can be a fun way to showcase the groom's glory and quirks at the wedding celebration.