Christening Cakes.

As with all significant life-stage events, marking the occasion of your child's christening or baptism with a cake is a popular tradition.

Unlike birthday cakes, the naming day event has additional significance so christening cakes tend to be more like wedding cakes than party or birthday cakes.

Customisable in a variety of flavours and decorations, christening cakes can range from the simple sheet cake to extravagant stacked tiers.

Christening cakes take all forms of shape, from traditional to novelty. The most common decorative toppings are booties, teddy bear’s or a toy box. The most decorative christening cakes are ones which feature pastel colours and decorations.

Over the years there has been a trend moving away from the more traditional christening cake leaning towards either christening cakes with characters, castles or cupcake towers with a large centre piece christening cake on the top.

Favourites are the polka dot cakes with a sugar model or sugar building blocks with initial of the child's name embossed across every toy block and teddy bears with blankets and toy boxes.

One simple, yet elegant, and very traditional shape for a christening cake is to mould the cake in the shape of a cross, decorated with the Childs name and date of birth. However, modern christening cakes can take any shape or form.

For larger parties, you may also consider having a multi-tier christening cake.