Origin Of Tiered Wedding Cake
Pillars between cake tiers did not begin to appear until about 20 years later. The traditional eight-tiered wedding cake created by Leicestershire-based baker Fiona Cairns was made from 17 separate fruitcakes and decorated with 900 iced flowers lace details from the Duchesss dress and garland that matched architectural elements of the room in which it was displayed.
Sam Bilton explores the origins of this symbolic wedding day treat.
Origin of tiered wedding cake. How the modern wedding cake evolved into a structured tiered cake is up for debate. Elaborate wedding cakes developed as they travelled their way up to the upper echelons of society. For the Queens wedding to Prince Philip Scottish biscuit-maker McVitie Price baked a four-tiered nine-foot-tall 500-pound cake using ingredients provided as wedding gifts from overseas as wartime rationing in the UK was still in place.
It is thought that a person sleeping with a piece of wedding cake under her pillow will dream of her future partner that night. The current style of cake was said to have been invented by London pastry chef William Rich 1755-1812 who modelled his own wedding cake on the steeple of St Brides church in London. Today the tradition is modernized by sleeping over a wedding favor with the same intention.
One for the wedding one sent off as a gift and one preserved for a future occasion. The history of the nuptial pastry though is even stranger than these modern rituals suggests. This custom dates back almost 300 years and is often practically combined with wedding favors being tiny perfect replicas of the wedding cake.
The top tier of the cake is to be frozen and then consumed on the couples. The now-traditional multitiered British wedding cakea grand affair of heavily fruited cake layers decorated with royal icing and embellished with sugar flowers doves horseshoes and bellshad its origins in the wedding cake made for the marriage of Prince Leopold in 1882. While cake at Church didnt continue for long cake began to be integrated to the wedding ceremony.
Royal cakes from which they originated most often had three parts-a top middle and bottom tier. His wedding cake was the first to actually be completely edible. The wedding cake is an essential part of most English nuptial feasts but it has had many different guises over the centuries.
Cutting the wedding cake and other traditions. In ancient Rome marriages were sealed when the groom smashed a barley cake over the brides head. The modern wedding cake as we know it now would originate at the 1882 wedding of Prince Leopold Duke of Albany.
When Princess Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947 each tier of her cake had a different purpose. Although there are precursors in Roman and medieval wedding feasts and notwithstanding the confused claims of some wedding etiquette experts the white three-tiered cake that is common today originated only in the Victorian era. Prince William and Catherine Middleton opted for two distinct cakes at their 2011 wedding.
A successful kiss without the cakes tumbling down meant a happy marriage. The invention of cake tins in the 17th century allowed for the creation of shaped cakes. The stacked wedding cake tier delicacy originated in a medieval tradition whereby individual cakes were stacked up as high as possible and the bride and groom were asked to kiss over the top of it.
The couple cut the first slice using Prince Philips sword. Saving wedding cake for your first anniversary is a tradition that symbolizes good luck and prosperity for newlyweds. The earliest examples including the bride pye were rather less sweet and often included some gruesome surprises.
Almost 300 years ago it was believed that by doing so the person sleeping over the piece of cake will dream of their future partner over that night. Stacked cakes or tiered cakes were referred to as early as 1580 named Great cakes. Supposedly tiered cakes got their start in the late 18th century when the apprentice of a London baker fell in love with his bosss daughter.
The popularity of tiered wedding cakes came legend has it as a result of a bakers apprentice in late 18th-century London. He wanted to create an elaborate cake to impress her.
