Top Layers
Wedding cake toppers are the icing on the cake. In majority of cases, the top layer is fruit cake with other cake types for the lower layers. Normally small models are placed on top of the cake, representing bride and groom in formal wedding dress. This custom prevalent in US wedding since 1950s represents togetherness. Modern weddings have adopted more variety in design and significance. Wedding toppers today are often figures that indicate shared hobbies or other passions.

Designs Of Toppers
Wedding cake toppers vary from traditional to out of the normal. Depending on the themes, the toppers are designed. They may be dramatic, humorous or uniquely reflecting the passion, taste or whims of the wedding couples. The replica of the couple or the wedding bouquet may adorn the top. Selection of the favorite childhood characters gives the top a funny look. Symbolic motifs like horseshoes and gold rings also find place at the cake top.

Roles Toppers Play
Sometimes a part of the toppers of the wedding cake is preserved in a frozen state for eating by the couple at their first wedding anniversary. The top tier normally being fruitcake can be preserved for a long period.

Celebrity Toppers
Los Angeles confectioners “Very Different Cakes” decorated the top of a wedding cake with Swarovsky Crystal with the initial of the couples at the wedding of “Law and Order” star Mariska Hargitay and husband Peter Hermann. The wedding cake at American tycoon Donald Trump’s marriage was topped with 3,000 white-icing roses. The traditional bride and groom cake topper was not preferred by the Trump couple. A chocolate ribbon topped the wedding cake of actor Dylan Walsh. The top tier of actress Denise Richards’ wedding cake was decorated with white satin.

Wedding Cake without Top
Cakes were reduced in size in Britain during the Second World War due to rationing of sugar that prevented icing on the cake. To make them look larger, these wedding cakes were served in a box made of plaster of Paris to give it a large traditional look.

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