A Cake Meant for the Married Couple
Friday, February 10th, 2012
No wedding can be complete without the wedding cakes. Bakers love to create masterpieces in wedding cakes that make the wedding day more memorable. The tradition of involving cakes in weddings was first started in Rome, where the groom would break a bread loaf over his wife’s head to symbolize his superiority in domestic affairs.
The traditional cutting of a wedding cakes by the husband and wife together symbolizes their first venture together as a married couple. A wedding cakes is commonly white in color and it symbolizes purity. The action of feeding of the wedding cakes symbolizes commitment to one another.
The French Croquembouche is the earliest form of wedding cakes. A French chef visiting England drew inspiration from the medieval England tradition of the bride and groom attempting to kiss over a pile of sweet rolls and created the first sweet roll tower that became famous as the Croquembouche.