Popular nigerian traditional wedding cakes – Palmwine Gourd Cake

There are so many designs used in nigerian traditional wedding cakes. These cake designs are completely different from white or church wedding cake designs.

One of such design is the palmwine gourd or calabash cake.

Most brides love the gourd filled with palmwine and sometimes , spilling.

Palmwine most be present at EVERY traditional wedding in Nigeria.

In the olden days, the palmwine was usually served from a gourd/calabash.

This design is our signature cake design. We make the finest calabash cakes.

Palm wine gourd (calabash) cake

This cake was ordered for a church service group’s thanksgiving celebration for 2017.  This is a small calabash cake complete with fondant garden eggs and fondant kolanut.

They ordered the calabash filled with “wine” cake to depict their joy in the Lord for a successful year (2017).

Traditional wedding cake with fondant kolanuts, fondant garden eggs and fondant coral beads

I absolutely loved working with this bride.

This was a 12″ floral overlay fondant cake with small palmwine gourd cake.

The coral beads, palmwine cup, kolanuts, garden eggs and calabash bearing the kolanuts were all made of fondant.

The cake board was covered with gold fondant to match the wedding colours.

A simple plaque adorned the cake.