Cake Wars...

A cake is normally a thing of joy. A rare indulgence that induces feelings of happiness and evokes happy childhood memories.
Stick the word 'wedding' in front of it and the concept changes for the worse. Happiness turns to stress, which in turn leads to the inevitable prenuptial family bickering.
The cause of such tension stems from our wedding cake flavour of choice.
In the blue corner we have 'team sponge.' The hip and happening family members under the age of 40. In the red corner we have 'team fruit.' Largely comprising of those over the age of 50.
I'm sure there are some twenty-somethings that enjoy a slice of fruitcake with their cup of tea, but all in all, when it comes to wedding cakes, sponge rules.
The mere suggestion that I was to have a sponge wedding cake didn't bode well with my aged aunt.
"Sponge?" she questioned, with a hint of disgust in her voice.
"Yes sponge," I snapped. "Maybe chocolate and vanilla or even lemon. Everybody hates fruitcake."
"No they don't. I like fruitcake. Lots of people like fruitcake. That's ridiculous. You'll never be able to keep a sponge cake for the christening."
Say no more.
A fellow bride-to-be was almost 'tricked' into team fruit by her mother-in-law-to-be. The MILTB told the B2B that in order for the cake tiers to have adequate support, the bottom tier must be fruit. I informed her otherwise and the cake war was won.
My cake battle has since escalated from the flavour of the cake to the size of the cake.
In recent years, the cup-cake has hailed as the wedding cake style of choice by a large percentage of brides and grooms.
Yet when I proposed to the elder family members that I was considering going miniature, all hell broke loose.
"How are you going cut a cupcake?"
Well, they might have a point.
A cake is a cake at the end of the day, and with less than five months to go until The Big Day, it's the absolute least of my worries.
For those strange beings that don't like any type of cake, Cheese Cakes are always an option. Not cheesecakes in the traditional sense, but wedding cakes made from actual whole cheeses!

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