Top Cake Trends and Secrets

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We recently stopped by Palermo's Bakery, one of New Jersey's top bakeries, to get the inside scoop on the latest wedding cake trends—and the secrets bakers use to make sure your cake stays standing throughout the night. 

Palermo's Bakery has been in business for nearly 25 years, growing from a small retail shop to one of the area's largest wedding cake bakeries. Many of the major catering halls in northern New Jersey work exclusively with Palermo's to provide cakes in their catering packages.

We sat down with Joanne Bruno, Chief Baking Officer at Palermo's. Check out what's "in" now for wedding cakes, and then get the inside scoop on how a wedding cake is actually constructed—and why it can cost as much as $18 per slice!

—Kristen O'Gorman Klein