Fruitful Wedding Cakes

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Fruitful Wedding Cakes

Passionate peach (top left) The four-tier Peach Passion cake combines hazelnut génoise sponge cake with a rich passion-fruit mousse and fresh sliced peaches. Enrobed in fondant, the cake is accented with an intricate design named "Indore" after a city in India, adorned with marzipan peaches. A beautiful cake for an August wedding, when peaches are in season. By Crème de la Crème of Renton; $7.26/slice.
 
In the limelight (top middle) For key lime pie lovers, this four-tier coconut-milk cake is embellished with tangy key-lime curd and cream cheese frosting, then cloaked with lime fondant and accented with white piping accents reminiscent of the gingerbread trim found on some historic homes. Key limes, blossoms and leaves made from sugar paste complete the sea-breeze touch. By The People's Cake of downtown Seattle; $8.50/slice.
 
Strawberry Dream (top right) A dramatic cascade of apricot-glazed fresh strawberries and handmade sugar gum paste flowers evoke the bounty of summer. The four-tier vanilla chiffon cake is filled with vanilla bean Bavarian cream, strawberry jam and wild strawberries, then blanketed with white-chocolate fondant and trimmed with green piping. By Decadence Custom Cakes of downtown Seattle; $8/slice.
 
Citrus sunburst (bottom left) This stunning five-tier cake features alternating lemon, lime and orange  layers filled with orange mousse and finished with a European buttercream icing, draped with alternating layers of white and sage-green fondant. Tiny decorative fondant lemons and limes offer a bright contrast, trimmed with sugar gum paste ivy and flowers. By Tacoma's Celebrity Cake Studio; $6/slice.
 
The allure of apricot (bottom middle) An apricot miroir glaze tops an imprinted almond bisquit jaconde layer, with alternating layers of pistachio sponge cake, apricot mousse and milk-chocolate crémeux with morello cherries inside. This colorful cake is decorated with fresh, seasonal strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blackberries and figs. By Tallant House of Snohomish; $7.50/slice.
 
With a cherry on top (bottom right) Perfect for cherry blossom time, this three-tier cake looks traditional, but inside it's a Black Forest Torte, with chocolate mousse and cherries blanketed between layers of cherry brandy-splashed Devil's Food cake. The buttercream-topped cake is adorned with handcrafted fondant cherry branches and blossoms and marzipan cherries. By Hoffman's Fine Cakes and Pastries of Kirkland; $5/slice.