If you’re planning your wedding reception, you might want to take a look back in time to see where the layered wedding cake was first used. Possibly there is a fun and unique idea for your own cake.
Medieval Origins
In medieval times in England a tradition began involving cakes. The purpose was to discover if the marriage was going to be a prosperous one.
Kissing Over Stacked Cakes
Have you seen stacks of cupcakes being use as a convenient and rather trendy way of having a wedding cake?
Well, stacked buns are how the wedding cake began. The attendees brought many small buns and stacked a tower as high as they could. Then the happy couple would kiss while leaning over the tower. If they successfully kissed and the tower of buns still stood high then their marriage would be full of prosperity.
Frosting’s Beginnings
Eventually, a little cheating entered the picture in the form of apple sauce and honey. It was used as mortar to keep that bun tower from falling. You could say this began the era of frosting the buns.
Of course, the French chefs got involved with adding cream puffs and fillings to the idea. Towers of cream puffs are still a tradition today for many couples. It is a delicious way to do something different and keep the tradition of a wedding cake alive.
The Modern Cake
The nun tower eventually turned into a cake tower. Bakers started using a specially designed hardened frosting to keep the stack of cakes from sinking in the middle. So, the cakes turned into a nice hatbox style.
In the 20th century wedding cakes eventually evolved into column cakes to give more height to the layers. This gave the wedding cake a more formal, elegant design.
Your Wedding Reception
What traditional will you be going with for your wedding cake? Are you doing columns, hatbox style or a tower of cupcakes or cream puffs?
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