* shared their fondant cake hobby with the rest of us, I've kind of had tiered cake fever and I thought-what better way to nurture my fever by googling giant tiered cakes in all their glory and THEN it occured to me-
What better expression of caketastic glory is there than that which is present at our cultures simultaneous heights of vanity and decadence: the celebrity wedding?
-AND then I thought: what better way to share my fever than with a post about the best celebrity wedding cakes?
Princess Fergie Ferg invited guests at her wedding to have a taste of her fairytale romance with the tasty Josh Duhamel by giving them a piece of the castle inspired by Disney's Magic Kingdom. Just figuring out how to eat those fortress ceilings would kinda be a dream come true for me.
A plain white dress requirement would not stop Eva Longoria's red hot wedding. She had a several tiered vanilla pound cake filled with organic raspberry preserves and buttercream be imported from Napa Valley, CA to Paris, France. The image you see next to the monumental cake is the bride + groom statue atop it, a tasteful rendition of a giant, King-Kong-esque, basketball playing Tony Parker seemingly abducting a tiny, helpless, bridal Eva.
Rob McElhenney and his bride Kaitlin Olson (you may know them as Mac and Sweet Dee from your favorite show, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) wanted to create minimal waste at their wedding. Instead of cut flowers adorning the natural beach wedding, they opted for potted plants; instead of intricate floral arrangements adorning the reception, they chose arrangements of artichoke and other live, uncut accoutrements. It makes sense, thus, they opted for a modest four tiered cake decorated with sugar grass leaves.
Kelis and Nas - what *should have* been a classic hip hop couple that we now know didn't work out, are captured here in one of their better moments: upon a gorgeous, classy, but still hella-bling-bling (I instantly apologize for decade old slang) gold-covered cake (actual, edible gold) topped off with a straight-up pimp chalice.
Much like Donald Trump himself, the cake from his latest wedding to some biddy who really must have needed the money was gawdy, over-the-top while still seeming to lose it's strength when it actually approaches the top. Cakes which are inundated with print-like repetition make it seem all the more fun to just dig in with hands. Let's all take a moment to do so in our minds.
Melissa Joan, adorable as always, had a demure cake fit for a pint-sized starlet just like herself. Don't be fooled though; this cake still oozes extravagance as it's an exact replica of the pistachio cake from her favorite movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Blair Underwood, who was too busy getting married to be seen with the cake, chose a traditional, easy to construct, and easily edible Eiffel Tower cake. Yeah, sorry, I just don't know what else to say about this cake, so just stare and imagine, dream, deconstruct it with your mind without letting it all fall apart.
Toni Braxton, soul sistah and ever the diva, clearly showed her full recovery from her humiliating bankruptcy following her first album release, by releasing a hit called "He Wasn't Man Enough For Me," getting married to presumably whoever *was* man enough, and having a cake made out of cakular Tiffany's boxes. None of us are man or woman enough for such fabulousity, so I command none of you even imagine eating it.
Mariska Hargitay, or Benson from Law & Order: SVU, recently got married to that man who sometimes plays one of the evil defense attorneys on that show. Even the happy couple knew how cuckoo bananas it was that Mariska was spending even one second-let alone, a lifetime-away from Christopher Meloni (Stabler); so they had the cake designed to be a sort of marathon of mad-hattery, kookily appearing to shake all about, with their initials at the top to let guests know they were in an alternate universe and hopefully they'd wake up soon.
The best cake by far, in my opinion, as it's simultaneously the prettiest, most traditional, most sensible, and most deliciously, pinkly, edible of the lot. Also because it's the cake of Tia Mowry and her hubby-even though Sister Sister ended, and she didn't have to be the smart, reasonable one anymore, she remained a class act till her happy ending.
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How would you even cut that Eiffel Tower? Is there enough for the guests?!
I really like all of these cakes, but my favorite would definitely be Melissa Joan's purple cake or the last one.
Ah, who cares--they'll all end up my stomach anyway! nomnom.
40 grand!!!?!?1 damn....well they are celebs haha. wow i love some of these, beautiful cakes
That last cake is super cool! Wow!
The trump cake is sick! I love it... but my favorite is the last one. I love the colors
I like Trump's. Very extravagant. If you have the money, why not?
i like the green one.
the castle one is cool but honestly it would be too much and mostly of fondant, I like the green minimum waste cake one.
The purple one is cute too.
The last one is my fav.
these are awesome but man if i had the money i so would!
Mariska's was awesome first place, Second was Fergies and Third was Melissa's.
Eiffel tower ftw!
Mmm... I want to hide myself in all those cakes and eat it all from the inside out. Especially Toni Braxton's cake.
potted plants.....hmmm
If I wanted to choose an "attraction" or different cake, I would go with Fergie's Fairytale cake! Its so pretty && im sure every girl wants to feel like a princess on their wedding day!
But as for traditional, Tia Mowry's cake is beautiful! I also love the rectangle shaped cakes..its somewhat different but not too far out. Soo pretty!
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As a baker, who's been hired to do custom cakes etc, and an artist/sculptor as well, I have to say this. Yeah, fondant covered cakes in amazing shapes etc are fun to look at, but honestly, at which point does it truly stop being cake.
I mean, if I make a cake, shape it into a rough form of say a purse, then gob on 3 lbs of fondant, and truly the type of fondant we are talking about here is NOT the type you pour over petite fores , we are talking about basically yucky tasting sugar play dough...is that really a cake? or a cake under a plastic cake cover that someone made. I am not arguing the artistry involved. These are beautiful and amazing works of art...but cakes?
The wedding cakes above, yes, they are primarily cake, look like caje and peel off the sugar play dough, probably taste delish. But when we have something that truly can be little more than a cup cakes worth of cake under lbs of inedible (except in the strictest sense) sugar glop...it's no longer about the cake at all.
And gingerbread houses, same diff. When people start using recipes that pretty much create plywood that no one would want to eat, out of food products, and then bury it under icing that looks like paint...what's the point? Why not just build a dollhouse, and bake someone some edible gingerbread cookies?
Cakes, and gingerbread houses are make to be enjoyed both as objects of beauty, but also as tasty treats. It's fun to swipe a fingerful of buttercream from a cake, or yank a candy off the roof of a gingerbread house. That is what they are for, whimsy, fun, sweet indulgence. They really should not come with fences and "Do Not Touch" signs around them. Am I wrong here?
Again, I am not in any way dissing the amazing artistry. I've made all manner of cakes and gingerbread houses, but I don't take those types of orders anymore. Food doesn't belong in a museum, cakes should taste great, cookies should be eaten. The cakes I make now, are still pretty, I can still make them in creative shapes, but they are fully and totally edible as well. They don't look wrapped in plastic or molded out of plastic, because truly, if that is what someone wants...they can go to Toys R Us.
the cakes are so amazing!
Pimp cup, hahaha.
Bah, I like mine more. It was $200 vanilla cake with rasperberry filling and smooth buttercream frosting and it was decorated by my Mom and Mother/Sisters in law with pretty Butterfly Orchids in two different colors. It was so meaningful to me that they put their love and effort into our entire day, that alone made it all priceless.
@manicbaker - throughout the post, i've wondered aloud about the actual edibility of these cakes, if you'll notice. many of us are aware that regular cakes, the ones we eat on special occasions all the time, are great cakes. just as cakes are meant to be enjoyed, so is this post. it's not deadly serious, and is meant to be taken in whimsy, fun, indulgence. if we could eat through the internet, i'd post the cake my mom made for me the other day-and you could try it. we can't. we can just see, and salivate (thus the title "food porn").
I think that Toni Braxton's and Kaitlin Olson's cakes are very cute. Trump's is gorgeous, but so over-the-top. And, I don't like the Eiffel Tower cake so much..seems like there would be not much to actually eat?
This post is awesome! I loooove cake!
Fergie's cake is crazy huge! I love the last cake - so sweet and pretty!
i don't give a damn about celebrities' wedding cakes. i care about mine.
40 thousand?
On something everyone is just going to eat in 5 minutes?
Yeah no way.