Piece of cake

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: June 22, 2005 | Copyright information

THAT FRILLY, white, bride-and-groom-topped cake draped in flowers and wrapped in pearls is the quintessential wedding cake, the icing of so many little-girl dreams. But these days, wedding cake dreams are doing somersaults and flip turns, picking up polka-dots or swirls, bright colors and other random bits of whimsy along the way.

"A wedding cake is really an expression of who the people are," says Berkeley wedding cake designer Julie Durkee. "It can be any color and any shape, as lon...

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