Have Your Cake and Eat It

The Wedding Cake, at least in Singapore, is not the item that most couples will give a lot of thought.

Usually, the place where you had booked your wedding dinner will supply the cake for you to cut on stage – the bottom layer is real but the top is fake.

Well, I came across some photos of absolutely fabulous beautiful wedding cakes and I just had to share it with you.

Maybe some of you will be inspired enough to make a change and have a unique wedding cake as the centerpiece?

Why do you cut the Cake ?
Cutting the cake represents the start of the newlywed’s life together.

The groom places his right hand over the bride’s to guide it for the first cut.

The bride cuts the first piece. The groom feeds the bride, then she in turn feeds him. This shared piece of cake symbolizes their first meal together.

The custom of the newly married couple cutting and feeding a slice to each other represents not only the life that they are now about to share, but also the idea that they will always provide for one another.

And, of course, it offers a picture perfect photo opportunity.

Vanilla cake with royal icing and sugar-paste bracelets of silver and gold (above)

Chocolate blackout cake layered with vanilla-toffee-crunch buttercream, with yellow marzipan and royal icing, pastillage curlicues and a pearl-dust finish (left)

Three-tier cake with pearlized fondant, impressed with flower shapes and draped in strands of edible silver beads (left)
Dark chocolate cake with layers of berry compote and white chocolate cream crowned by spun-sugar floral garlands and wreaths and finished with a monogram (right)

Four tiers of hand-molded sugar flowers nestled between floating layers of dark chocolate cake iced with buttercream and filled with cappuccino mousse (above)

Sprays of beads explode from this cake (left)
Sprays of pink and clear beads encircle the tiers of this cake (right)

This five-tier buttercream cake is covered with sugar hydrangeas (above)

Cream-Puffs anyone?

White-chocolate and Bavarian cream cake covered with fresh flowers and a white chocolate "fence" (right)

Cymbidium and dendrobium orchids on a cake in white fondant (left)
Fresh roses and fruits - Seckel pears, sugarplums, goose-berries and raspberries - on a buttercream-frosted cake (right)

Three-tiered cake decorated with sugar-paste flowers, molded fondant grapes and butterflies hand-painted with food colouring (left)
A botanical-themed cake including three layers of varying flavours - bourbon vanilla cheesecake, white-chocolate butter cake, triple-chocolate cheesecake - and decorated with ferns and vines made of Belgian chocolate (right)

Caramel espresso mousse cake with edible white chocolate pearls dotting the sides (left)

How about a mountain of cupcakes?

Or go whimsical with a slanting cake