Your wedding cake
Start early to find a baker, choose your design
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Detailed decorations are butter-cream frosting,
under fondant ribbons. Cake is topped and surrounded with green hydrangea blossoms.
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The bride's cake, symbol of fertility and abundance, is traditionally a three-tiered white sponge cake, with white royal or buttercream icing. Tradition, though, is crumbling. Brides are now choosing cakes of every type to suit their own sweet tooth.
Contemporary options include German chocolate, Italian rum, strawberry, carrot, yellow and white.
Evaluate bakers by sampling their cakes, if possible, and by looking over their album of cake designs and styles. You will find cakes designed around fountains and bridges, as well as multi-tiered and sheet cakes.
Select your baker well in advance, placing your order four months ahead of time. Be prepared to describe your wedding, the number of guests, location and time. Multi-tiered cakes are usually asssembled at the reception site. Be sure you allow enough time for delivery and set-up. Expect to give a deposit when you order. Get a receipt describing the type of cake you've ordered, its filling, icing, style and color of decorations.
The decoration at the top of the cake can
be as unique as the cake itself. Fresh flowers and delicate blown
glass tops are charming decorations. Especially popular in our region for
beach-theme weddings are hand-made seashells and starfish made of white
chocolate. These have sometimes been surrounded by brown-sugar "beach sand."
Cutting the cake: Your baker will give you cutting instructions.
Remember, when you make the first cut, hold the knife in your right
hand. Your groom's hand closes over yours and together you cut a
slice. This is the result of an ancient Greek custom where a couple
shared a sesame seed cake to ensure theirs would be a fruitful marriage.
The top layer of your wedding cake is generally
wrapped and frozen to await the celebration of your first anniversary.
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