Note: The featured groom’s cake was made by Chef Mendy of CakesbythePound.com.

Crabs cooked in garlic and butter..mmmnnnnn. This cake is edible but it’s not made of crabs. Chef Mendy said the groom was from Maryland and his wife wanted to get him something that reminded him of home. So she created a crab pot cake.

Everything we see are edible, except the board. The crab pot cake is made of layered vanilla butter cake and chocolate buttermilk cake with Godiva white chocolate, French buttercream, chocolate ganache, and VanGogh espresso vodka.

Photo with permission from CakesbythePound.

Note: This groom’s cake was made by Chef Mendy of  CakesbythePound.com.

This cake was done by Chef Mendy for an Atari video game fanatic. Anybody following Atari will immediately identify it as the classic Atari 2600 game console that was released in 1977. It was packed with 1 cartridge game, usually the PacMan, thus the familiar happy chomper decorates the board.

The console is made of chocolate blackout cake with milk chocolate coffee mousse, Espresso VanGogh ganache and Valrhona chocolate crunchy pearls.

Photo with permission from CakesbythePound.

For comparison, here’s a picture of the unedible one…

Note: the featured groom’s cake was made by Chef Mendy of CakesbythePound.com.

For rock n’ roll fanatics, it’s easy to spot what this groom’s cake is about. Chef Mendy created it for a Rolling Stone’s fan. She says it’s their Chocolate Blackout Cake, made with Starbucks coffee and Valhrona chocolate (the chocolate company is in a wine-making town in France) and iced with Godiva white chocolate, french butter cream, and chocolate ganache.

The cake was then covered in chocolate fondant and decorated with the Rolling Stone’s trademark lips and tongue.

Gabriel, Chef Mendy’s partner, left a comment clarifying that the Rolling Stones’ iconic lips and tongue is the cake itself. It is set on a fondant-covered board.

Our apologies for mistaking the base as the cake, but, looking at the picture, it does look delicious too.

Photo by: CakesbythePound.com

Note: The featured cake is by Shara of CakesByShara.net.

Men traditionally breaks out cigars in celebration. This amazing groom’s cake by Shara in the shape of a  humidor (yes, it’s a cake) is right on the dot (we hope it was ordered by the groom himself). All that chocolate on the cake makes it tempting even for non-smoking guests.

Note: The featured cake is by Shara of CakesByShara.net.

The dainty look of this white groom’s cake is offset by a topping of nuts. Shara decorated the side of the round cake with tiny dots, reminiscent of an ostrich-skin handbag. However, the crushed pecan topping growls “eat!” and what can be more manly than that?

Photo with permission by CakesByShara.

Note: The featured cake is by Shara of CakesByShara.net

Wedding Cake Hints has added a new category for groom cakes and we will start with Shara’s striking red and square groom’s cake with chocolate swirls. Will it make a passionate hubby?

Photo with permission by CakesByShara.

Is it Groom’s Cakes or Grooms’ Cakes or, simply, Groom’s Cake? Anyway, Wedding Cake Hints has now a category for the groom. We always wondered if the groom’s cake tradition was as old as the wedding cake. According to this delightful little article at BellaOnline.com, the groom’s cake was actually called the wedding cake while the wedding cake as we know it today was called the bride’s cake. The question was, who wore the wedding gown back then?

In addition, the tradition of the groom’s cake, as we know it today, began in the Southern United States. Groom’s cake designs sprouting up sure are totally different from traditional wedding cakes,  often based on the personality of the man rather than the theme of the wedding.  Ah, well, let ‘em have hope.