Traditional

• The most traditional groom's cake is a fruitcake, but a new tradition is emerging. Since the wedding cake is commonly a white cake, the groom's cake is commonly a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Usually simpler than the wedding cake, it is one or two tiers, round, and elegantly decorated with creamy chocolate frosting or chocolate fondant. Especially elegant traditional groom's cakes are topped with chocolate shavings or truffles.
  
  

Interest-Based

• If you wish to decorate the groom's cake to reflect the kind of person the groom is, start with his interests, hobbies or passions. For example, if the groom loves sports, you could make a rectangular cake, turn it so that it resembles a diamond, and use green and white frosting to make it a baseball diamond. If the groom loves music, bake a round cake and use black or silver frosting to make the cake look like a CD or record, with the name of his favorite band or album piped on.
  Because the wedding is many times just as important to the groom as it is to the bride, a popular groom's cake decorating idea is to frost the cake to appear like a tuxedo. Simply use black frosting to make a "V" shape, and inside the "V," use white frosting to make a shirt. Use dots of black to make buttons, and black frosting to make a bow tie. This is done on both round and rectangular cakes.
  
  

Non-Traditional

• There are lots of ways to provide the groom with a sweet treat other than to give him a cake. New trends include chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting arranged on a multi-leveled serving platter so that they resemble a tiered cake, an elegant serving platter full of chocolate truffles, or a pretty basket full of candies. If you choose to do a non-traditional groom's "cake," you can sill get creative with the decorations. For cupcakes, use different colored icing to make shapes, patterns, or spell the groom's name. You can do the same thing with different colored truffles or candies. Or, you could use a very small cake as a base and top it with candies, putting the focus on the candy and not on the cake.