Cake it till you make it

I'VE NEVER been a fan of angmoh-style cakes; I much prefer local, soupy desserts such as ice kacang, cheng tng, orh nee, tau suan, pulut hitam... I could truly go on forever.

So it didn't matter when our wedding venue told us they only provide dummy wedding cakes - ours was a mammoth five-tier rubbery plasticky cake, complete with a slot for us to make a pretend knife cut - and that we could buy our own real wedding cake if we liked.

Meh, we thought. Guests are likely to be stuffed after an eight-course Chinese dinner, right? Plus, we're already serving mango sago, which is a far more delicious choice of dessert (versus some dry sponge cake with way too much icing), no?