Wedding Cakes Adelaide

Wedding cakes Adelaide were not always eaten. As bizarre as it sounds, the early cakes, which were actually more bread than the pastry we know today, were thrown at the bride (as a symbol of her fertility) or broken over her head (as a symbol of breaking the bride’s chaste state). The former tradition started in Medieval England, while the latter had its roots from the Roman Empire.

The breaking of the bread over the bride’s head fell out of favor over time because breads were getting bigger, so the act of breaking was becoming more impractical. This tradition, however, persisted until the late 19th century in isolated parts of Northern Scotland.

In Middle Age Britain, the wedding cakes Adelaide were made of wheat without sweeteners. Each wedding guest were to bring a piece of cake which they will pile in layers and levels, creating a tiered pile, giving rise to the form of our wedding cakes Adelaide today. Then, the newly-married couple will attempt to kiss each other from the top of this pile. If they managed to do so without toppling the pile, they were assured of a lifetime of prosperity.

The Victorian version of wedding cakes Adelaide was white because it was supposed to symbolize the bride’s purity. This is because the wedding cake evolved as a bride’s cake. The color was also appropriate given the available ingredients of the time. Even before Victorian-era wedding cakes Adelaide, white was the color of choice because icing can be made from (white) refined sugar; the finer the sugar, the whiter the cake. Hence, wedding cakes Adelaide eventually became an outward symbol of status; the finest refined sugar was hard to come by, and was rightfully expensive.

The modern form of a tiered cake was first introduced by a French chef who was appalled by the ‘uncivilized’ piling ritual of baked goodies. He recommended a more stable stacking system using sawed-off broom handles. Even though the practice did not catch on right away, other tiered forms came into being.

Today’s Wedding Cakes Adelaide

Today’s multi-tiered wedding cakes Adelaide was first introduced by an 18th century baker’s apprentice who wanted to impress the baker’s daughter by making a very large cake. The form was inspired by the tiered tower of St. Mary-le-Bow in England. However, the wedding cakes Adelaide were only real in appearance; the top layers of the cake were made of spun sugar. Even the bottom layers were coated with stiff icing: The hardened layer provided support to upper layers, and the stiff coating helped preserve the cake. But once the problem of preventing collapse of upper layers was solved, and the moment appropriate ingredients became available, creating pillared and multi-tiered cakes became possible.

Today, wedding cakes Adelaide need not be white nor adorned only by flowers. Brides and grooms can customize their cakes to suit the wedding theme, the season, the couple’s personality, or the couple’s preference for ingredients. Wedding cakes of today can range from simple fruit concoctions to elaborate creations topped with even more elaborate decorations. But however they are made and decorated, wedding cakes Adelaide are always the focus of wedding traditions, and the slicing of the cake highlights the couple’s first task together as husband and wife.

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