Wedding Cakes

A wedding cake is customarily served to friends following the wedding. It is traditionally huge, and comes tiered or multi-layered. The wedding cake is heavily adorned, generally with icing over a coating of marzipan, with the figures of the bride and groom on top. Other commonly used designs incorporate horseshoes(which stand for good luck), gold rings and doves. The perfect wedding cake has to be robust enough to support the decorations; at the same time it has to be fit for consumption.

Customarily, the cake is first cut by the newlyweds together, typically with a knife or, in some instances, even a sword. Then the newlyweds feed a portion of the cake to each other. Visitors may then indulge in the cake. An old custom required the bride to serve the cake to the groom's loved ones, a symbolic gesture of transferring herself from her family to the groom's.

The wedding cake's origins are not easily determined. Right now, wedding cakes are usually served at Christian or Western ceremonies. Sweets are used as an substitute in other cultures. Olden Roman information talk of sweets offered out during wedding receptions. An additional well-liked Roman practice was to drop the cake on the bride's head.

A substantially huge cake, a requisite during historical times, took quite a lot of time to make. The higher content of sugar can thus be explained. A heavy sugar frosting could stop the cake from becoming spoiled by moisture. Also, sugar combined with fat would satisfy the consumption of the large quantity of men and women liable to be present at the ceremony.

It is noteworthy that King Henry VIII of England actually came up with a law to restrict the quantity of sugar on a wedding cake. For the duration of World War II, the icing on the wedding cake could not be created, as sugar was heavily taxed. Thus, there was a marked reduction in the size of the wedding cake. Cakes were generally served in a box adorned with plaster of Paris, to give the illusory experience of a larger, much more traditional cake.

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