Isn’t life too short we hear you say?  Why not simply bake a slab-cake and divide it up into little squares?

Actually, there are good reasons for going to the trouble of baking individual cakes, particularly in the case of wedding gift cakes:

Firstly, a cut-slice can never reproduce the variety of textures found in an individually baked cake.

But more importantly, any dried fruit which is sliced-through when the cake is cut will eventually leach fruit-acids into the icing and stain it: Not what you need after spending hours lovingly decorating dozens of cakes for that special day!