Boutique Wedding Cakes {Book Review & Giveaway}

A beautiful cake is the quintessential sweet ending to any wedding celebration. Expert baker and sugar-crafter Victoria Glass demonstrates how to create custom wedding cakes at home in her new book Boutique Wedding Cakes. Victoria provides all the guidance needed to create a cake that offers a true reflection of a couple’s unique style and personality. I’m delighted to review this book and to give it away to one reader!

{Giveaway Details}

Simply leave a comment on this post before midnight CST on Sunday, March 31st for your chance to win. Enter as often as you like, and be sure to check back on Monday, April 1st to see if you were chosen! {Open to US shipping addresses only)

From practical advice for choosing a cake style, transporting the finished product, and troubleshooting potential mishaps, to essential recipes and techniques, Boutique Wedding Cakes has everything you need to be successful at making your own wedding cake. Detailed recipes for a variety of cakes, royal icing, marzipan, and modelling chocolate make sure that your confection will taste as delicious as it looks! A handy quantity chart in the back provides all the information needed to create each cake in a variety of sizes. Four sections filled with photos of 19 stunning cake designs make it easy to choose a cake for your theme.

The book is divided into four themes:

Chapter 1, Classic Elegance features romantic, traditional cakes inspired by icons of the past, whether it’s the understated elegance of Grace Kelly, or the graceful charm of Marie Antoinette.

Chapter 2, Chic and Sophisticated, focuses on glamorous cakes with contemporary style and a dash of drama.

The pretty pastels and lighthearted details of the cakes in chapter 3, A Splash of Color, bring to mind a casual garden wedding filled with charming motifs like love birds, gilded birdcages, and vibrant blossoms.

Chapter 4, Changing Seasons, celebrates the beauty of each time of year with cakes tailored for each of the four seasons.

Boutique Wedding Cakes will help you create an unforgettable cake regardless of your budget or ability as a baker. The book is available from Ryland Peters & Small for $24.95. Many thanks to author Victoria Glass, and to Ryland Peters & Small for sponsoring this post. Be sure to leave your comment for your chance to win a copy!

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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