With characteristic wittiness (and fortitude) KASHINK created nearly 200 murals depicting many a gay couple gazing dreamily at one another over a big ornate wedding cake; a series she humorously named "50 Cakes of Gay".
Ever since John Galliano started taking Dior apart in a show staged at that ornate wedding cake called Versailles, he has been asked when he planned to put it back together.
Housed in the immense 15th-century Scuola Grande di San Marco, its ornate wedding cake facade dominates the San Giovanni e Paolo Campo, and once you walk through the grand entrance hall with its intricate marble floor, there is an ancient cloister and gardens.
The book, with text by the British curator Susan Bright, is a skipping stone through photographic history of many genres — art, cookbook, advertising, journalism — showing food in all its glory, from the simplest egg to the most ornate bride's cake.
In fact, it was this city's excess of ornate modillions and wedding-cake pediments that prompted the architect Adolf Loos to write his revolutionary essay "Ornament and Crime" in 1908, planting a seed of modernity that would spread throughout Europe.
The oak interior is cosy but very simple, there are thoughtful touches like a vase of flowers on the dining table (yes, there's a dining room), a packet of Welsh cakes, and the ornate solid fuel burner in the sitting room has been beautifully laid for our arrival.
Let them eat cake decorously with this ornate three-tiered design.
There's something so festive about that ornate box with the sugar-dusted cake inside.
Cakes were like those displayed in diners, ornate creations based on air and sugar: ho-hum chocolate-chip cake and Key lime pie, chalky cheese cake, bland peach caramel cake and tiramisu, which was almost all custard.
