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Taste that Takes the Cake

by onewhitedress on 25/08/09 at 9:37 am

We all pay special attention to the way our wedding cake looks.  The icing style and colours, the shape and number of tiers, the piping, the flowers and the decoration… But how many of you really put the same thought into the way the cake tastes?

It’s a traditional approach to chose fruit cake, served simply with a nice cup of tea. However today, it’s becoming more and more fashionable to experiment with flavour combinations that sound almost as good as they taste. To help you decide, here are a few suggestions of divinely decadent cakes that I would like a big slice of right about now…

1. Cherry Ripe. A rich chocolate cake flavoured with desiccated coconut, whole cherries and sandwiched together with Cherry liqueur ganache.

2. White Chocolate & Pistachio. A sweet silky cake with chewy nutty chunks layered with white chocolate sugar cream.

3. Tiramisu. A take on this delicious Italian desert. Thin layers of white butter cake, separated with coffee mascarpone and Rum cream.

4. Malibu. Moist coconut cake paired with a white rum and lime syrup and lashings of whipped cream.

5. Spiced Walnut. A delicious cake combining the spicy flavours of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger and roasted walnuts, thinly layered with a sweet cream cheese-filling.

Care to share your uique wedding cake flavours? Please do let us know so we can all drool together… ♥

From Left to Right - 1, 3, 4 & 6 Martha Stewart. 2. BBC Good Food 5.  MSN Lifestyle