How have clients custom-designed their wedding cakes?
TIPS FROM THE TRADE The groom’s cake is slowly making a comeback. Akin to the slightly patronizing ritual of the bouquet toss, the dessert has its origins in superstition: Unmarried bridesmaids slept with a slice beneath their pillows to summon dreams of their future husbands. For a Swiss groom at his St. Regis wedding, Ben-Israel made one that looked like a wedge of Swiss cheese and had the maître d’ wear lederhosen. It’s a confectionery inside joke, so don’t empty your pockets (from $7 per serving at michelledollcakes.
