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!

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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