After outcry from local business owners, the order was canceled and five Vineland bakeries were commissioned to create elaborate cakes for the event.

Passers-by on Main Street see an elegant shop, rife with Italian marble and opulent floral arrangements, offering colorful, cooling gelati, chocolates and elaborate cakes.

The elaborate cakes and sweets are also worth a gander.

On Saturdays it acts as a wedding machine - rather appropriate as it does look like an elaborate cake.

Prices range from $1.50 for the cream puffs to $3.60 for the more elaborate cakes.

While throughout most of Western history, these elaborate cakes in general were the privilege of the wealthy, birthday cakes are nowadays common to most Western birthday celebrations.

However, these elaborate cakes, which possessed many aspects of contemporary cakes (such as multiple layers, icing, and decorations), were only available to the very wealthy.

The book's reasonable price is probably attributable to the absence of color photography, which would have been useful for some of the elaborate cakes.

Austrian desserts are usually slightly less complicated than the elaborate cakes described above.

In London, confectioners made elaborate cakes with sugar icing and gilt decoration and displayed them in their brightly lit shop windows for passersby to admire.