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title: "Edible or keepsake: which wedding cake topper should you choose? It is a choice  — by Conjure Wedding  on Knowasiak"
description: "Edible or keepsake: which wedding cake topper should you choose? It is a choice between food and something you keep. An edible topper is a sugar figure, or an image printed on frosting or wafer paper."
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# Post by Conjure Wedding  (@conjurewedding)

Edible or keepsake: which wedding cake topper should you choose?

It is a choice between food and something you keep.

An edible topper is a sugar figure, or an image printed on frosting or wafer paper. Your baker or a sugar artist makes it. Fondant stays soft; gum paste dries hard and keeps better. A fondant figure kept in a cardboard box, away from sun and damp, can last a few years. Edible does not always mean eaten: the baking brand Wilton does not suggest eating gum paste decorations, and sugar figures can hide wires or toothpicks.

A keepsake topper is acrylic, wood, clay, vinyl or a 3D print. It stands on the cake for the photos, comes off before the cut, and goes home to a shelf. It is not made to touch food, so it sits on a clear disc.

Keepsakes vary a lot in weight. When Conjure Wedding (conjurewedding.com) bought 8 custom toppers from other makers to test them, the heaviest clay figure weighed about 1¼ lb (559 g). Our print, about half as tall, weighs about 2 oz (53 g).

Pick sugar if it should be part of the cake and does not need to last. Pick a keepsake if you want it after the wedding. Or have both: a keepsake on top with sugar flowers around it.

We make keepsake figures of two people from your photo. They are not made to touch food, so on the cake they stand on a clear disc.

https://conjurewedding.com/blog/edible-vs-keepsake-cake-topper

Image: AI-generated example of a fondant bride and groom.

#WeddingCakeTopper #Fondant

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