Wedding Cakes: Expectations vs Reality
- cakish
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min read
What do you think of when you hear the words 'Wedding Cake'? We’re guessing it’s an ivory tiered fruit cake, but these days wedding cakes are breaking traditions and expectations. We checked the wedding cake expectations against reality, to see just how much the cake is evolving…
Expectation: Wedding Cakes have to be fruit cake
Reality: Your cake can be any flavour you wish!
Traditional wedding cakes were made from a heavy fruit cake, wrapped in marzipan and icing. Such was the nature of these cakes, that it was usual for the top tier of the wedding cake to be kept in the freezer to be brought out at future events, usually a christening.
If fruit cake isn’t your bag, don’t worry - your wedding cake can be any flavour you wish! If you don’t opt for fruit cake, you can also move away from heavy marzipan and icing and instead opt for buttercream (or even Swiss meringue buttercream).
Expectation: Wedding Cakes must be an ivory tower
Reality: Your cake can reflect your wedding
The traditional image of a wedding cake is undoubtedly the ivory tower tiered Wedding Cake. However, just as wedding themes have evolved, as has the wedding cake, meaning it can reflect the unique theme of your big day, or even the season you are getting married in.
Expectation: Wedding Cakes have to be serious
Reality: Wedding Cakes can be as fun as you like
Okay, so you now know that you don’t have to have fruit cake and that your wedding cake doesn’t have to be an ivory tiered number, but it still needs to be sensible right? Wrong! A wedding is your special day, so why not have some fun with the cake whilst reflecting the unique partnership that you’re celebrating? The cake can be a fun as unicorns and mermaids.
Expectation: Wedding Cakes should have a wedding topper showing a married couple
Reality: You can have love birds, or elephants!
The traditional wedding cake is topped with a depiction of the married couple, men in their black suit, women in their white dress. However, this isn’t always an accurate representation of the married couple or you may just want to have a bit more fun with it.
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