wedding cake
A wedding cake is usually a multi- tier cake that forms the center of the cake buffet at a wedding party . Wedding cakes are usually coated with icing and richly decorated with icing or marzipan . Typical wedding motifs such as hearts, roses, rings, figurines designed as a wedding couple or a dedication with the names of the bride and groom are usually chosen.
The wedding cake is often topped with a cake topper. The most famous cake shapes are the self-supporting shape, the étagère , the box shape or the spiral shape.
A typical wedding custom is for the bride and groom to open the cake buffet by cutting the wedding cake together. Care is taken to see who has the hand up, because this spouse should be in charge of the marriage.
Wedding cakes are considered a particular challenge for the creativity and artistry of pastry chefs . In exceptional cases , such as Pamela Anderson's last wedding , they are also made from paper mache .
In architecture, the wedding cake is a style founded in 1916 in which buildings taper upwards like a staircase.
history
The wedding cake in its present form was not made until the 19th century, probably initially in England, although wedding cakes were already available in ancient Rome. There is no evidence of such a custom in the Middle Ages . With the development of confectionery, it became common for the nobility to have richly decorated cakes made for all festive occasions, although initially there was no special wedding cake. In England, the three-tier cake was popularized by the wedding of a daughter of Queen Victoria in 1859, with the top two parts made entirely of icing. When Prince Edward married in 1882, all three floors were made of cake. In the UK, the wedding cake is usually covered with a hard layer of frosting called royal icing .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pamela Anderson: Paper mache wedding cake. In: Spiegel Online . October 8, 2007, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Simon Charsley, Wedding Cakes and Cultural History, Routledge 1992
Web links
- Simone Reich: craftsmanship! How to bake a wedding cake , SWR TV - Landesschau Baden-Württemberg from October 24, 2017 (YouTube from November 26, 2018)