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Category: WEDDING CAKES

  • Inspiration: Wedding Cakes & Croquembouche

    Remember when we told you about the importance of a Croquembouche piece montee in french wedding traditions? Well, for this weeks inspiration blog post we wanted to gather a few of our favorite looking (and no doubt) yummiest cake designs including the traditional American styled layered cake as well as the french style croquembouche.

    We’re hearing from many of our British brides that since seeing Michelle Roux made a croquembouche on Masterchef they’re intrigued about having one at their weddings!

    Depending on the size of the wedding party – some couple choose to have both; a croquembouche and a layered cake.

    4 Tier Cake with flowers

    This lovely 4 layered cake – is simple yet chic.

    via dustjacketattic.blogspot.com

    french macaron cake via style me pretty

     Oh La La – This macaroon cake is as colorful as it is festive for a fun french themed wedding!

    via onelove-photo.com

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  • Croquembouche: French Wedding Cake Tradition

    Chic Paris inspired wedding cakes are all the rage these days, and as wedding planners we are here to tell you that the traditional french wedding cake; the Croquembouche, has not gone out of style. If anything we’re seeing more of our American couples marrying in Paris, opting for both a layered fondant cake and a Piece montee / Croquembouche to give their weddings a elegant touch.

    order a french wedding cake in Paris
    photo WeddingLight Paris wedding photographers

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  • Sugarplum Paris The American wedding style cake

    Here is the first of our video interviews that we are proud to present to everyone. We met up with the team from Sugarplum in Paris only yesterday. So for everyone enjoy! We are looking forward to your comments.
    Sugarplum brought to Paris the art of making highly colorful, American style wedding cakes and i can testify, they are very testy. I do have a sweet tooth, love chocolate and everything sugary.
    I simply had a wonderful time in the 5th arrondissement yesterday. Sugarplum a great novelty to Paris. So welcome ladies and we are looking forward to a future collaboration.
    And Anyone looking for a real American wedding cake in Paris ?
    Visit the Sugarplum Cake Shop at 68 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine.
    * Phone: +33 (0) 1 46 34 07 43
    * E-mail: info@sugarplumcakeshop.com
    * Metro Cardinal Lemoine or Metro Place Monge

  • Classic croquembouche made in France

    The first time you see a “pièce montée” you might wonder, “How on earth do you serve it?” Then you wonder, “How do you eat it?” and eventually you wonder, “How do you make it?” and someone who has never seen a pièce montée before might say: “Who cooked that up?”
    From the French words croque en bouche meaning ‘crunch in the mouth’. A croquembouche is a French cake, a kind of “pièce montée” often served at weddings, baptisms, and first communions. It is a high cone of profiteroles (choux filled with pastry cream) and traditionally dipped in chocolate bound with caramel, and usually decorated with threads of caramel, sugared almonds, chocolate, flowers, or ribbons. Very rich in the pallet, always a marvel to look at and somehow still a centerpiece at a French wedding. In 1760 a French pastry chef named Avice filled the buns with pastry cream and called them profiteroles … and that’s history!

    photo above: Croquembouche by Fancy That! www.wedding-cakes.co.uk