Sunday Sweets Would Like A Word
October 16, 2016 It's National Dictionary Day, folks, so what better way to use our words than with beautiful cakes?
After all, cakes can say so much.
They can talk about what's important:
;)
(By Mea Sculpture Cake Design)
Share what's in your heart:
;)
(By Nashville Sweets)
...and do it in any language!
;)
(By Le Dolci)
(My love language is cake. WHAT.)
Maybe it's your favorite saying:
;)
(By Queen City Bakeshop)
Or a snippet of poetry:
;)
(By M Cakes Sweets)
Or a favorite childhood story:
;)
(By Sugar and Spice)
Maybe you know all you really need:
;)
(By Mely's Cake Design)
Or you want to get dramatic with a single letter:
;)
(By Mark Joseph Cakes)
And if you can't choose just one word (or two or ten)?
;)
(By Chatter Cakes)
This works.
In fact, sometimes there's nothing more beautiful than blocks of handwritten text:
;)
(By Lovely Cakes)
Look how romantic with all these great textures:
;)
(By Yuma Couture Cakes)
Feathers and stone. I like it.
But let's end with something seasonally appropriate: an homage to Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas:
;)
(By Cupcakes By Louise)
For it is plain to see,
These cakes are Sweet as they can be!
Happy Sunday, everyone!
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Reader Comments (20)
Ach. Those are just amazing. So perfect.
That Alice cake is just gorgeous!
Wow -- those cakes are amazing! I can always pick one or two that are my favorites, but not this week.
As a major word nerd, these cakes ticked all my favorite boxes! LOVE!!!
Well, now I want to get me a bunch of brother husbands because I want SO MANY of these for my own!
As to Cake #5: What IDIOT puts capital letters in an e.e. cummings quote?
Otherwise, yes, these all are very lovely.
The following is not sacriligous or in any way critical of personal beliefs. (A disclaimer is now almost a necessity. Maybe if everyone ate more cake we wouldn't be SO TOUCHY!)
I go to CakeWrecks on Sunday morning to have my faith renewed and my soul refreshed. Today's experience will serve me well in the days ahead. These are all simply divine.
My phone phantom strikes again! We have lovely cakes and one of them insists I see the demented pumpkin a blog post or two ago.
Why phantom you ask?
Because I click on scary pumpkin and the pretty cake appears!
(I think it's just phone but it's fitting for Halloween)...
K--Can we talk about how awesome the single letter cake is? â¤ď¸đđ
Isn't the dramatic letter cake two letters? I'm seein a 'k' and a 'f'. Or am I the only one seeing that?
So very lovable.
But, one very minor thing. Its e.e. cummings. No caps...
These are absolutely lovely! What a wonderful collection!
Alison you're not alone, I see the F too!
To the folks pointing out there should be no caps in the e.e. cummings quote, what caps are you seeing? Everything is lower case. Also this: https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-E-Cummings
So maybe chill out a bit Longtime Lurker
Could it be that it's not a K but IF?
I read the "one letter" cake as saying "IF", with the I on the side and the F tilted. It's gorgeous, however you read it, as are all the others. Thanks for posting these!
The letter cake is very similar to this one:
The letters âJ,k and Fâ are spelled out on this modern monogrammed wedding cake in black and white
The Hudson Cake
Another photo of the Mark Joseph Cakes production can be seen on Colin Cowie Weddings Modern Cake 06 page.
That can't be a single letter, because the serifs on the tilted section don't align with the vertical on the left. The tilted section could be part of E or F, but the leftward serif on the vertical (see here) indicates a lowercase l. I think all you can say about the design is that it contains typography, but maybe not letters.
The poetry fragment from Mr. Cummings should have lowercase i's, not capital I's. Also, it is missing the parentheses, which are a major stylistic element. In the form on the cake, it looks thoroughly conventional, which is not at all in keeping with the intent of the poet. I call that a literary wreck.
LURVE the Alice cake, particularly as they used the original drawing. And I really like the blackboard effect on number 4. I have to say though, being the cranky-pants that I am, I abhor the use of one noun in the first cake. Either all nouns, or none. *mutter mutter mutter*
kismet, check your grammar again:
support, trust, and love can be nouns or verbs;
heart, courage, endurance, family, faith, joy, laughter, and friendship are all nouns.
So all nouns it is :)