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I can honestly say that, at a wedding, I am never excited for the cake. It usually looks amazing and tastes like industrial lubricants.

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I think you may have eaten a fake cake. I read about them somewhere.

I agree. However, at my own wedding I insisted there should be a cake. This is basically the only thing I insisted on - I kept saying that we're not actually married unless there's a cake.

Because weddings are complicated, I'm pretty sure I never got a slice of that cake.

Most American wedding cakes are terrible. Two reasons: the one discussed in the article is that often cakes are frozen to be decorated and stored, and so they're already stale by the time the wedding happens, and the second is that many American cakes just don't taste good. A sad byproduct of nutrition fads and pseudoscience combined with low levels of culinary discernment.

There are also compromises made on the frosting so that it doesn't melt at room temperature. Fake cakes let you serve cakes that actually taste good.

American cake is in general very good - I'm not sure where you're comparing it to - it's the cupcakes that are bad.

I think the biggest factor by far is that these cakes are decorated with "Fondant".

Which is like edible sculpting clay. It's technically edible but tastes like garbage. Buttercream makes a delicious cake but it is very difficult to mold some of the decorations people are requiring.

I wanted a fun "Batman" cake like this for my son's birthday party.

https://www.cta.ae/163-large_default/funny-block-batman-cake...

The bakery wants almost $600 for this cake. I think that is part of the reason we are seeing a "fake cake" trend.

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