Tier Cakes are the traditional cake design that is served to the guests at a wedding reception in England, and Scotland. Tier Cakes look amazing at the wedding breakfast). Multi Tier Cake Ideas: It has been a modern custom to have a 3 tier cake or even a four tier cake if the guest numbers are large. Usually the large multi tier cake is heavily decorated with marzipan and icing. Often these are surmounted with a Model Topper” representing a bride and groom or some other wedding related modelling – sometimes formal and sometimes humorous or even risqué. Whereas most wedding tiered cakes are fruit cakes of the traditional variety, the modern trend includes chocolate cakes and sponge cakes. These master works of the cake baker are really a tour de force of the tier cake world with many ideas for the to be married to choose from.

It is a common practice for the top cake tier to be retained by the couple for their first wedding anniversary or celebrating their first child. The cake is most frequently cut by the couple sharing the knife and distributed in small portions to the invited guests. A pleasant, but dying custom, is to send small portions of the tier cake to relatives and friends who were unable to come to the wedding owing to distance or health problems.