Sponge:

Vanilla
A classic sponge made with butter and flavoured with vanilla extract. Filled with your favourite jam and vanilla butter icing. Typically this is the base for novelty cakes and has to be decorated and consumed within days.

Chocolate
A scrumptious chocolate sponge made with butter and flavoured with your choice of dark, milk or white chocolate. Filled with your favourite jam and either a vanilla or chocolate butter icing. Great for children's and chocoholics parties. Again must be decorated and consumed quickly.

Citrus
A light citrus sponge made with butter and flavoured with fresh orange, lemon and lime - choose either a single or any combination of flavours. Filled with lemon curd (or your favourite jam) and a citrus butter icing. If you want to serve this as your dessert, we could fill it with rich cream cheese icing.

Orange and Carrot
If you are not too keen on the traditional fruit cake - but want something a little heartier than a sponge cake, then try this. A slightly spicy cake filled with orange butter cream. This cake would be ideal to serve as the dessert for your wedding breakfast.

Other types of Sponge Cake
Please note Sponge wedding cakes are available in the above flavours, however not all designs are possible with sponge bases. Check with us - we will always be able to suggest a way to fulfill your dream!

Fruit:
Ideally a rich fruit cake needs to be made 6 months before the event; this gives the cake time to mature, this ensures that the flavours and textures reach their peak! Of course we can make fruit cakes on shorter timescales - but the longer the better!

Traditional Dark Fruit Cake
A dark fruit cake made with the best dried fruits and plump cherries steeped in brandy or whisky with butter, dark treacle, dark soft brown sugar, flavoured with fresh oranges and more brandy or whisky. Once made the cake is kept in a cool place and regularly drizzled with either brandy or whisky. This produces a well rounded rich moist fruit cake that slices well and tastes wonderful. It is a good base for all wedding cakes and if you wanted to keep the top tier to become the traditional christening cake - then this is the cake we would strongly recommend. For your piece of mind the traditional fruit cake can be collected or delivered several days in advance of your celebration. (If you are not keen on alcohol we can miss it out and steep your fruit in fresh orange juice).

Dietary needs
If you have any special dietary needs, with your help we will aim to meet them. e.g. Gluten free, Fat Free, Egg intolerance.

Toppings:

Marzipan Marzipan is traditionally used to cover fruit cakes before icing. To make a sponge cake extra special it can be marzipaned too. Marzipan is made from ground almonds.

Sugar Paste / Fondant Icing This a very popular form of icing made with icing sugar and gelatin. It is soft icing that can be used to cover cakes and is used to make molded characters and flowers. The possibilities of what can be made with sugar paste are endless. This icing can be coloured to match wedding outfits, flowers or party invitations.

Cocoform A delicious chocolate paste (white, milk and dark) made from pure Belgian chocolate and glucose. It is not as sweet as sugar paste and can be used to cover cakes or to make figures and flowers. It can also be mixed with marzipan to make a mouth watering chocolate marzipan. Chocolate marzipan is particularly suited for use on chocolate wedding cakes.

Royal Icing A past tradition was to use royal icing to cover wedding cakes. Each tier of the cake would have several layers of royal icing to achieve a hard flawless finish onto which more intricate deigns were iced. Cherry on the Top can do this for you. Royal icing is now more commonly used to write messages and to add details to sugar pasted cakes and novelty cakes. It is made from icing sugar and pasteurised egg white.

Butter Icing Butter icing is made with butter and icing sugar, they are beaten together with vanilla extract or a flavouring of your choice. It is used as a filling for sponge cakes.

Chocolate Real chocolate icing is luxuriously rich. There are many ways of making it. Depending on how chocolately you want your cake to be we can choose one to match your needs.

Chocolate Curls For the peak of sophistication - high quality chocolate cake for the focal point of your celebration cake

Making your own fruit cake:
Want to make your own fruit cake and let us decorate it? If you would like to provide your own fruit cake we can decorate it for you, it would be very helpful if you contacted us before making the cake!