AI thought I would check with my fellow bakers to see what trends going on right now with wedding cakes, make you giddy with delight, or cringe, when brides come to you with their designs... I'll start... If I have to make one more burlap wedding cake I am :cry:going to scream!!!:(

I am personally sick of Swiss dots.  I try to talk my brides into being creative.  But all I get is, I just like the simple look.  Yes, easy on my time and effort but not challenging to my creative side.  Three cakes in the next month.  Swiss.dots.  

AI avoid the trends by custom designing for the most part, so I can say that swiss dots and burlap wouldn't ever be anything I'd have to work with, thank gorsh! :D

AI'll also admit that faced with the prospect of making swiss dots and earning a paycheck, or not making swiss dots and [B]not[/B] earning a paycheck will change my tune real quick...lol. But I can't say I've ever had to do it...yet. :D

AI personally do not understand how burlap started. Who thought wrapping that stinky ugly fabric around a [I]cake[/I] was a good idea? Yes I know there are "cleaner" less messy versions in the fabric department, but I see a LOT of regular ole hairy gross burlap on cakes, when doing a Google search. Gives me the heebie jeebies.

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this really turns my brain inside out, I got a 10 day suspension for saying burlap sucks. 

I was just gonna say, you said it again MB, watch out! 

Shoot, didn't mention what I did like....so maybe I have personal trends, I dunno.

I did this a couple of months ago and get lots of requests for similar looks, and since it's an original design, well I'm all for making it whenever I'm asked. :D :D

Let's see...I think the other one is a single accent flower on an otherwise subdued cake design. I like that, I spose that's kinda of trendy. Whether it's a wafer paper bloom, or a giant rose.

trends yes, but you are the starter of trends with this one. Wow.

What is a burlap design? I've never heard of it before, like a backpack?

What is a burlap design? like a backpack? I've never heard of it before.

I am not a fan of the "naked" wedding cake.

Thanks Mimi but fabric? on a cake? or is it made out of fondant?

I have to jump right on this thread! Zebra print..the number of people asking for it is astounding. I did one cake ages ago and recently threw it up on my website; and that decision has plagued me. That trend can goooo..

Claire, some brides actually want the fabric. Ugh. But some are just happy with the look, so it can be fabricated using edible ingredients.

AYup, don't like naked cakes! The filled, un-iced but decorated cakes. Sure sure, they can look very elegant or country, but i could imagine those cakes being dry - being out in the open without frosting or fondant to lock in the moisture ;)

A[B]Threw it up[/B]....lol

AMy brides want burlap ribbon(I back it with wax paper) or burlap roses, and I think I have 4 more this month and have already done at least 6! Over it!

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