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Updated on: 29 November,2009 07:40 AM IST  | 
Sunday Midday Team |

While it's wedding season in india, A divorce cake craze is sweeping Britain

Till death US do party

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."




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