Cake

Your wedding cake crowns your wedding day’s celebrations so treat your guests to a mouthwatering delicacy to savour.

Keeping up With Tradition

The wedding cake is both a symbol of your marriage and a delicious treat to savour at the end of a perfect day. The cutting of the wedding cake is a treasured moment for many brides and grooms because that first delectable, shared bite signifies the couple’s new life together.

The traditional wedding cake is a marzipan-iced fruitcake, which in the past has been sent home with guests in white paper bags. While this practice is not as popular amongst brides and grooms today, it’s still an accepted way to share your cake with your guests. Many brides today take a more inventive route to serving their cake – perhaps by turning it into dessert or serving it in miniature slices with coffee after dinner.

Fun by Design

A wedding cake is truly a piece of art so enjoy playing a part in this unique creation. It can be coloured and decorated to compliment your gown, wedding flowers or other wedding decorations. Fresh flowers give a very romantic look to your cake and suit romantic and elegant wedding. While fruit such as berries will add freshness to chocolate, vanilla or cream based cakes and work well for more casual weddings.

Candied or sugared fruit suits traditional weddings but they can also lend a more stylised feel to a modern wedding if you want something different for your cake.

Flirt With Dessert

Many wedding cake caterers are now designing brilliant creations based on desserts or smaller treats.

Tiers of cupcakes, a glorious profiterole croquenbush, or perhaps piles of meringues, tarts, parfaits, tortes and angel cakes are just the start of what is possible.

Channel your favourite treats as a child for wedding ideas – tiers of neenish tarts or lamingtons are sure to bring lots of smiles.

Pick a Cuisine

A clever alternative to a traditional wedding cake is to borrow from other cultural backgrounds. Taking cues from either your own background or the background of your groom is a lovely way to combine cultures, or, why not base your wedding cake on the chosen cuisine of your wedding feast. Persian fairy floss, baklava, Turkish delight or sweet rice cakes would all add an unusual and memorable flavour to this special part of the day.