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The Ever-Present Wedding Cake!

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The history of the wedding cake goes back as far as the Roman Empire, and through the years, the wedding cake has become the focus of a variety of customs and traditions.

In Anglo-Saxon countries there was a custom to keep the first tier of the Wedding Cake to be used again at the first wedding anniversary or at the birth of the first child. In such case there were two alternatives: a fruit cake that could be conserved for a long time or the Wedding Cake was frozen.

Another bizarre custom was for a bride to put a small slice of cake under her pillow to be able to see her future husband’s face in her dreams (everything is done only to find the husband).

And another sweet custom to put the ring in the cake, so that one of the single guests finding the ring in their slice would be destined to get married soon.

Wedding cakes take centre stage in the traditional cake cutting ceremony, symbolically the first task that bride and groom perform jointly as husband and wife. The groom would feed the first slice to the bride, and this action would symbolize his future role in the family.

As you see the Wedding Cake is much more than just a cake! Creating the Wedding Cake can help the bride and groom express themselves, making it very elegant, or joyful and colourful, according to their tastes and preferences. The USA brides and grooms have invented a very nice tradition to put much smaller cakes (replicas of the main Wedding Cake) around it. This tradition slowly but surely is now entering Italy and other European countries.

Another example are the Wedding Cookies, tiny biscuits to use as place cards, wedding favours, etc. A cherry on the cake: decorated confetti, personalized with the bride’s and groom’s initials, significant dates, names and little messages, to use as place cards or small gifts to the guests at the end of the celebration.

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