Decorating Cakes for the Groom

Macho groom’s cake ideas are very current and trendy right now. Most are served up in real life at people’s weddings and were meant to be a source of humor and good fun.

 
The groom’s cake was always meant to be the wry answer to the frilly and often very feminine classic wedding cake. Nowadays you see a Groom’s cake at its most humorous extreme. On specialty cake websites you see cakes modeled after all kinds of different things including a dirty rubber boot, mugs of beers, roadkill (an armadillo run over by a truck, a set of barbells, a moose head and a giant electric guitar!

 

Groom cakes are tongue in cheek and can be related to any guy theme. You could have a cake in the shape of a cigar, like a fire engine or like a stripper. In fact if there is one kind of groom cake that most men enjoy it is one that is shaped like a sexy lady!

 

They say that beer and chocolate don’t go well together except when you are making a Guiness Cake. What is a Guiness cake? That is when you combine that dark frothy beer known as Guinness along with chocolate cake batter. The result is one of the hottest desserts to hit the web and the women’s magazines lately.

 
The great thing about Chocolate Guinness cake, which is also sometimes known as beer cake, is that is so masculine in flavor. It is also a dark color, which makes it ideal to be the look for a groomsman’s cake. Usually it is topped with a light cream cheese icing that has elements of cream cheese. This kind of cake is definitely a food for a special occasion as the Guinness beer in it give it a specific zingy taste that men love.

 

There are many different types of recipes for this cake online. You can find one on Oprah’s website and there is also a really great version of it at Everybody Likes Sandwiches. This is a great cake to decorate with booze filled chocolate candies as well!

 
It is also just more common in general to see cakes decorated with brown, grey or cream colored icings that are just more macho in look and style. Many of the more male cakes are very boozy with the flavors. Cakes made with hard liquors like Jack Daniels Bourbon Whiskey whereas cakes made with liquors such as grand marnier or Kahlua are more female in flair!