Cakes with Bling!

Diamonds, rubies, gold, and pearls--Oh my! What better way to tell your sweetie "I love you", then with one of these two outstanding cakes.

Member Chef Janet Ben-Ami, owner Hey! Cookie in Long Island created the jeweled heart tiered cake.

Member Ines created the Tiffany ring box cake. Ines hopes to open her own custom cake business in the future.

November 2009 Cake of The Month

Photo courtesy of member Amelia Monis

How about this amazing stocking stuffer? The Cartier Watch cake was created by member Amelia Monis. Amelia was bitten by the cake decorating bug in 2006 after taking a class with master decorators Debbie Brown and Colette Peters. Amelia is crazy about cake! She wakes up thinking about cake designs and goes to sleep thinking about her next cake decorating project. Her passion is evident in the superb attention to detail in her Cartier Watch Cake. Amelia is sure to be snapped up as an instructor for NYC Cake Decorators next "Best of the Best in NYC Cake Decorators" event. Check out her other fabulous creations at Amelia Cakes and her blog Sweet Alchemy by Amelie.

Have Your Bling and Eat it Too!

How about ringing in the New Year with your own $1,000.00 edible "bar of gold" cake? An over the top dessert served at the Kempinski Hotels in Istanbul, Turkey, it takes 72 hours to make the edible brick of gold, which is available by special request for weddings. Spiked with apricots, pears, quince and figs that have been marinating in Jamaican rum for two years (yes, I did say two years), and flavored with shaved caramelized black truffles, this 24-carat gold leaf-covered cake is presented in a sterling silver handcrafted cake box with a golden seal. Now that's having your bling and eating it too!

One of the most gorgeous and most expensive cakes on the planet is the diamond studded fruit cake, which was showcased at the Takashimaya Department Store in Tokyo, Japan. Painstakingly designed and created by Tokyo pastry chef Jeong Hong-Yong, the fruit cake was bejeweled with 223 diamonds with a price tag of approximately $1.65 million U.S. dollars.

Nahid La Patisserie Artistique

The world’s most expensive cake was unveiled in 2006 at the Luxury Bridal Show on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. This glitzy wedding confection was created by cake designers Nahid La Patisserie Artistique along with jewelers Mimi So.

The cake, artfully bejeweled with priceless gems, wasn’t meant to be eaten—or even touched. In fact, during the show, the cake had its own "body" guards. So how much was the most expensive wedding cake in the world? The diamond-studded masterpiece was said to be worth $20 million U.S. dollars!

Probably one of the most expensive chocolate cakes in the world, this 14 inch tall cake was artfully decorated with 50 diamonds. The decadent chocolate confection was displayed in a department store in Osaka, Japan and the selling price was reportedly one billion Yen or approximately $8M US dollars.

Photo courtesy of Marco Soriano

One of the most fashion forward cakes is Gregory Paul Soriano's tribute to Louis Vuitton, which is a decidedly artsy take on bling.

Photograph courtsy of Loneman Photography

We cake designers can create our own edible bling masterpieces with pre-made edible diamonds from Fancy Flours , edible pearls from Country Kitchen Sweet Art, or by making our own food safe molds for edible cake jewelry.