From afar, it looks so simple - a pure white wedding cake rising up from the desert.

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The guests were served an all-white, seven-layer white rum wedding cake that was covered in white fondant and sugar crystals, and adorned with crystal brooches and the couples' monogram on the top layer.

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This summer she plans to hit a few more caves in Kentucky, including one where unclassified microorganisms are eating away at the ceiling, turning it into a squishy white substance like icing on a cake.

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There is room for a billion-dollar wedding industry serving a generation of young people who, though marrying later than my generation did, have embraced the white wedding gown, a dozen attendants, the cake, the song, the speech and the party after.

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The match will be remembered in American soccer for the elements as much as the 1967 Ice Bowl is in the NFL. As the snow increased, it made the field resemble a cake topped with piles of sugar, and players' hair turned white as snow stuck along their scalps.

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Her affection was entwined with nostalgia for the cake her adored grandmother would make for her childhood birthdays: cherry angel food, with white fluffy frosting.

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