wedding cake

noun

|Updated on: 6 Jun 2018

Definition of wedding cake

1 : a usually elaborately decorated and tiered cake made for the celebration of a wedding

2 : something (such as a large building) resembling a wedding cake especially in elaborate ornamentation

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Claire Ptak of Violet Cakes will create the couple's wedding cake, Kensington Palace has revealed.

— madeline farber, Fox News, "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal wedding: Everything you need to know," 19 May 2018
In addition to a formal tea ceremony, guests can take photos with cutouts of British royalty and celebrities, eat wedding cake and enter for a chance to win a replica of Markle's engagement ring.

— garrett mitchell, azcentral, "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal wedding: Where to watch in Phoenix," 14 May 2018
Last year, for example, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief for the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case in support of the Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

— tara isabella burton, Vox, "Trump’s latest appeal to evangelicals: a new office to protect religious liberty," 3 May 2018
But the piece de resistance was their towering vanilla and sour cream wedding cake with peach apricot preserves and Earl Grey-milk chocolate buttercream.

— elise taylor, Vogue, "Chrissy Teigen’s Carrot Cake, and More Unusual Celebrity Wedding Confections," 18 Apr. 2018
Guests will enjoy a non-traditional wedding cake made by pastry chef Claire Ptak.

— judith vonberg, CNN, "Royal wedding 2018: What we know so far," 4 Apr. 2018
The wedding coordinator goes into anaphylactic shock due to a food allergy, and Glasses knocks the wedding cake over.

— refinery29.com, "Grey's Anatomy Season 14, Episode 24 Recap: "All Of Me"," 18 May 2018
Grab some themed snacks The couple will be cutting into a lemon elderflower wedding cake covered in buttercream and fresh flowers, which has inspired a few local bakeries to incorporate those flavors in their own sweets.

— lauren delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, "3 tasty ways to celebrate the royal wedding," 18 May 2018
Buzz60 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are going to have a lemon elderflower wedding cake on Saturday, but Tostitos has a very different idea of a celebratory, um, dessert for the actress who appeared in its 2009 TV ad for corn chips.

— zlati meyer, USA TODAY, "Royal Wedding means cake made of dips, commemorative chicken buckets, other wacky tie-ins," 17 May 2018

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