Wedding cake

A wedding cake is usually a multi-storey cake that forms the center of the cake buffet at a wedding. Wedding cakes are usually covered with frosting and richly decorated with icing or marzipan. Typical wedding motifs such as hearts, roses, rings, figurines are chosen mostly designed as a wedding couple or a dedication with the names of the couple.

The wedding cake is often topped with a cake top. The most famous cake molds are self-supporting form, the cake stand, the box or the spiral shape.

A typical wedding custom is that the bride and groom opened the cake buffet by joint cutting the wedding cake. Care is taken to who has the hand up, because these spouses in marriage will have the final say.

Wedding cakes are a particular challenge for the creativity and craftsmanship of confectioners. In exceptional cases, such as the recent wedding of Pamela Anderson, they are also made of paper mache.

History

The wedding cake in its current form was created in the 19th century, probably first in England, although there were wedding cake in ancient Rome. For the Middle Ages there is no evidence of such a custom. With the development of the sugar bakery, it was the nobility customary to leave richly decorated cakes make on all festive occasions, where it initially but was no special wedding cake. In England, the three tier cake was made ​​popular by the wedding of a daughter of Queen Victoria in 1859, with the two upper parts consisted solely of frosting. With the marriage of Prince Edward in 1882 then passed all three floors of cake. In Britain, the wedding cake is usually coated with a hard layer of frosting, which is called Royal Icing.