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Princess Beatrice’s Hat on a Cupcake

​We never thought we'd say this, but some things really do look better on a cupcake. Like Princess Beatrice's royal mistake of a wedding hat. While seamstresses were sewing knock-off wedding dresses over the last day, Wir Machen, a bakery in Munich, Germany, got busy with the fondant. Next up, Tara...
By Amy SilvermanApril 30, 2011
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​We never thought we’d say this, but some things really do look better on a cupcake. Like Princess Beatrice’s royal mistake of a wedding hat. While seamstresses were sewing knock-off wedding dresses over the last day, Wir Machen, a bakery in Munich, Germany, got busy with the fondant. 
Next up, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson’s new nose on a cake pop. 

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.

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