29 November,2009 07:40 AM IST | | Sunday Midday Team
While it's wedding season in india, A divorce cake craze isu00a0 sweeping Britain
A new trend in the UK is helping to make divorce a piece of cake.
While for some the end of a marriage is cause for commiseration, others are increasingly seeing it as a time for celebration.
And to help mark the occasion a UK baker has started to produce 'divorce cakes.'
Already popular in America, these colourful confections are ordered by newly-single men and women eager to celebrate a fresh start.
And while wedding cakes often come decorated with smiling iced brides and grooms, decoration on a divorce cake is slightly different.
One of the cakes produced by Brighton-based baker Faye Millar shows a bride happily pushing her husband off the edge of a three-tier cake.
Another features a woman plunging a knife into her groom's back as a pool of red-icing blood spreads at his feet.
Meanwhile, in one for the men, a newly divorced husband casually kicks away a tier that his ex wife is desperately clinging on to. An iced message proclaims: "Free At Last."
According to Faye, her cake creations, which are priced from u00c2u00a360 to u00c2u00a3800, are designed to encourage a positive attitude to a failed marriage.
The mother of two comments: "Some people might consider it crass and insensitive while others may view it as a fitting end to a period in their lives as well as a chance to have a good party.
"I like to introduce humour rather than something too sober or vindictive so I use lots of figurines interacting with each other.
"Divorce can be a horrible thing but I would like to think comical divorce cakes can help lighten the mood a little."
Divorce celebrations are growing in popularity in the UK, with celebrities leading the way.
Katie Price recently held just such a party after her marriage to Peter Andre ended.
Faye adds: "I think it used to be taboo to have such a thing as a divorce cake because it is not traditionally viewed as an event to celebrate.
"However, with people like Katie Price throwing divorce parties I think people are definitely coming round to the idea of celebrating the end of a relationship and shouting to the world they are back on the market."
