To calm her nerves, she decided to have a Bible verse which had always brought her comfort (1 John 4:18, "There is no fear in love; for perfect love casts out fear") engraved on her wedding cake.

Or a nostalgia cake covered in crystallized white lilac petals. Then there`s the golden cage cake, which is enclosed in fragile strands of carmelized sugar.These are a few of the glorious cakes, […] ...

You can have your cake and cook it too if you follow the rules laid down by Rose Levy Beranbaum in her recently published “The Cake Bible” (William Morrow and Co., 1988; $25).Its 556 pages of ...