That said, one bride has been absolutely savaged online after she showed off her fake wedding cake made entirely out of foam and wall plaster.

Rent the cake — check? That's right — a new Grandville business allows couples to rent decorated Styrofoam wedding cakes for less than half the cost of the same cake made from scratch.

A New York mother —who goes by Shay and @thebabyshay on TikTok — revealed she paid nearly $800 for her son's birthday cake that was made out of styrofoam.

Wedding cake prices are overlooked as the focus is mostly on venue prices. However, these celebratory desserts are quite costly depending on design, flavour and colours. To cut their costs, couples ...

To make matters worse, the party planner knew it was a styrofoam cake as she specifically asked the baker for a faux cake. The planner also paid the baker $400, but upcharged her client $800 for ...

Melissa McSorley's job is to make food look good — and last — on camera. Sometimes that means cooking 800 Cubano sandwiches, other times it means scooping butter instead of ice cream.

And cakes, dozens of cakes, all constructed with Styrofoam and decorated by hand: an "I Love New York" skyscraper cake, a bright red Chanel handbag cake, a many-layered black-and-white striped ...

A Texas family say their daughter's graduation ceremony was spoiled -- when Walmart gave them a cake made of Styrofoam.

Fake-cake experts say they would never use cardboard as a base, since it might not bear the weight of the heavy icing and decorations. Styrofoam cakes can be reused indefinitely, at least until ...

That got us thinking about whether or not a fake cake—and a sheet-cake companion—really is more cost-efficient than the real thing.

When the fake cake was wheeled to the kitchen, servers brought out slices of a sheet cake purchased from Sam’s Club for $80. A real cake could've cost them around $2,000.