Edible cake toppers come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes. The weirdest (and most beautiful) have to be wired edible cake toppers: edible cake toppers, as the name suggests, that are suspended or supported on arrangements of non edible wires.
Now then. Why on God’s green earth would a person need edible cake toppers, which you can eat, supported on wires, which you can’t? That’s like putting rice paper around a pencil. The wires, apparently, are there so you can bend the edible cake toppers into whatever design you wish them to make. But why make them edible (which presumably makes them perishable) at all if you can’t eat all of them? Having edible cake toppers is one thing: they’re fancy, they look nice, and you don’t have to worry about removing them before you cut the cake because they are safe to eat. Having semi edible cake toppers seems a little – bizarre.
Having said that, non edible edible cake toppers do add a dash of drama to a cake: because they’re wired, they give elevation to the decoration, which allows you to put an explosion of stars, or a fountain, into the design. You can’t achieve the same effect with fully edible cake toppers because they look too big. Edible cake toppers that achieve the same height from the cake top as wired “edible” cake toppers end up bulking out the decoration so much they look top-heavy and clumsy.
Adding drama to a cake still doesn’t explain, mind, why edible cake toppers that come on wires have any edible parts at all. Perhaps making the edible parts of not completely edible cake toppers out of sugar means they “fit” with the rest of the cake – in the same way that hanging paper flowers on a card would. Or maybe they’re just done that way so you can pluck the edible bits from the wires like tiny lollipops. Imagine that. Edible cake toppers with built-in toothpicks.
