Mon 8 Mar 2010
Influenced by the wedding gown, this wedding cake serves 270.
Specialty Cakes Menu & Options
With the announcement of your wedding, many decision exist to be made. Once some of your preliminary choices have been made, such as the date, your celebration colors, the location of the reception and perhaps the bride’s gown selected, the next natural step would be to select a baker and the cake design. If you would like to go traditional in your celebration, here is some background on how the traditions of wedding cakes came about.
The tradition of a wedding cake comes from the blessing of fertility. In ancient Roman, cakes were made of wheat or barley. The Groom would break the bread over the head of his Bride as a symbol of fertility and an assurance of many children. Later, the tradition grew to stacking multiple cakes one atop another. Tall wedding cake towers were symbolic of the bride’s popularity. Since medieval times, the tradition for the bridal couple to share a kiss over the tower of cakes, without knocking them over.
The symbolic ritual of the bridal couple cutting the cake together also comes from medieval times. It symbolizes the change of relationship and the first act done together, as a married couple. How each of the partners feeds their spouse is symbolic of their relationship and ultimately the tenderness, passion, and excitement of their love-life.
The top tier is traditionally saved, and frozen, to be eaten on the couple's one-year anniversary.
White is the tradition for wedding dresses and wedding cake. Symbolizing purity, it celebrates “holy” matrimony. With the 1960′s revolution of “free love,” the promise and sanctity of virginity has been obscured. So also, brides have gotten away from the tradition of a white dress and correspondingly white cake.
These days, notice frilly feathers in bouquets and cake toppers.
Today, brides are selecting colored icing on the outsides of their cakes. Inside, instead of the traditional white cake, you may see Red Velvet, Dark Chocolate and other decadent or exotic flavors. Particularly these days, brides may go relatively simply on the exterior of their cakes. We see them selecting smooth finishes and fresh or silk florals.
