Wedding Cake Information

Welcome to Wedding Cake Information! We’re excited you stopped by to see our home on the web. The wedding cake was established itself as one of the most anticipated parts of the celebration. One of the first questions people ask when they find out you’re getting married is ” what kind of cake are you going to have?” In today’s day and age the possibilities and options are endless. Many couples still opt for the traditional, plain white variety, however it is becoming more and more popular to customize it to your own unique style, theme, or design. Even the groom’s cake has become more elaborate in recent years. It has come to reflect the hobbies or interests of the groom instead of the traditional chocolate cake. Mix the departure from tradition with a recent trend in culinary flair, design, and creativity, add the new technologies and techniques available to bakery artists today and you find some truly amazing works of edible art at the ceremony. With many twists on the classic, you begin to find you can have your own unique style and make your ceremony stand apart from others. We find that nothing is off the table when it comes to choice, everything from ice cream cakes to cheesecakes have thrown their hat into the ring when it comes the main sugary attraction of the day. You can feel free to express yourself in any way you desire, as we’re no longer beholden to the past traditions when it comes to this part of the wedding ceremony.

When we started to research the history, we discovered that is not as straightforward of a story as we first believed. In fact, much of the information about the beginnings and traditions that you easily find available in books and on the Internet are fictitious. As with any well constructed story of fiction there is a grain of truth that runs through it to hold all the pieces together. A common belief is that the wedding cake has its roots in roman times. You can find many articles about how the Romans would take the cake (which at that time would have been more like a bread) and crumble it over the head of the bride. The funny thing is, there isn’t much information available to validate this theory. Much of the history you can read about today actually came from an author and the late 18th and 19th century, I believe. You see, during that time period the affluent in Britain believed that appropriate modern practices would have direct ties to Rome. So when J.C. Jeaffreson published his well respected work brides and Bridals in 1872 giving legitimacy to his fictional history tied to the Romans no one ever questioned it. Because it was the definitive book on the subject, future authors built up on this fictional history in over time it became accepted as fact. Because of this brides and Bridals might be one of the greatest works of fiction in the last 200 years. Interestingly enough, the history of this dessert as we know it today, as a major part of the ceremony, didn’t really come into existence until the 19th and 20th centuries.

Many of the traditions that we have regarding the wedding cake come from the very wealthy and affluent who dictated acceptable or required etiquette. This is actually the reason why they are white, traditionally. Once upon a time, only the wealthy could afford sugar that had been refined enough to produce the white icing. Because of this the traditional white color that we see today as plain was once only something the upper class of society could afford. So as the cost on refining sugar became reasonable brides everywhere wanted a white wedding cake, which they can now afford. Some people believe that the white coloration is meant as a symbol of purity, much in the same way that a bride’s dress is white to symbolize purity. This isn’t the case. The white color became tradition because so many brides want to have the same thing as the very wealthy.

We hope you’ll enjoy all the information and articles we will be adding as the site grows. Future articles will cover topics such as wedding cake toppers , wedding cake designs, wedding cake cupcakes, and much much more. Thank you once again for stopping in and visiting us at Wedding Cake Information.