There is a cake for every life milestone and for some, divorce is worth celebrating.
To punctuate the end of a marriage, some couples are paying bakeries for divorce dessert. You have to admit, a cake is cheaper than a divorce attorney and a whole lot sweeter.
Some cakes show the groom knocking over the bride, while others are "Star Wars"-themed with the phrase "May divorce be with you" written in fondant frosting. On Etsy.com, there are cake toppers aplenty for sale, many with a ball and chain theme, and the words "Free at last!"
A few calls to local bakeries suggest that the divorce cake trend has yet to catch on in the Twin Cities.
"We have really wanted to make them, but we haven't had any requests for them yet," said Alina Matveyeva, lead baker at Nadia Cakes in Woodbury.
Elsewhere, divorce cakes are officially trending. Kim Say, the owner of Adult Cakes by Kim, a Houston bakery, recently told NPR that she has an "entire selection of divorce cakes," and even makes cakes for individual marital problems.
Say's signature divorce cake is topped with a plastic bride holding the bloody head of her groom. One of Say's customers is a lawyer who orders several of these divorce cakes each year to send to his clients.
Hey, nobody said divorce was pretty.
