wedding cake

noun

a white cake, traditionally in tiered layers, covered with white icing and decorated.
(in England) a fruit cake, similar in appearance.

wedding-cake

[ wed-ing-keyk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

wedding cake

a rich fruit cake, with one, two, or more tiers, covered with almond paste and decorated with royal icing, which is served at a wedding reception

First recorded in 1640–50

First recorded in 1875–80

She canceled bridesmaid dress shopping and wedding cake tasting with her best friend.

Like a layered wedding cake, each experience built on the weirdness of the previous one.

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips was sued last year when he refused to sell Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig a wedding cake.

A piece of the royal wedding cake of Prince William and Kate Middleton has sold for $4,160 at a Beverley Hills auction.

Can gays and lesbians have their wedding cake and eat it too?

Marriage ought to have some frosting besides what's on the wedding cake.

I am rather afraid to promise for fear you should choose something unlikely—a wedding-cake for instance.

A wedding-cake costs a good deal to begin with; it is not particularly wholesome food.

So, with another sharp look round the room, he went out at the door; followed by Caleb with the wedding-cake on his head.

As soon as the ceremony was over, the bridegroom was whisked away, to be followed by the bride when she had cut the wedding cake.

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