Wedding, Birthday, and Celebration Cakes Especially 4 You
When baking, follow directions.
When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs
When baking, I make my own recipe so I get the best taste ever. I may start with one recipe and end up making it completely different. That is why my frosting in not crisco and powdered sugar, but made with butter and whipping cream.
But, if you are making something at the last minute, follow the recipe, when making your own recipe you get many, many failures before you get what you want.
Happy baking.
Wedding Cakes come in a huge variety of different sizes, shapes and colors. It is entirely up to the couple which flavor they choose to decide upon for their special day. Most popular flavors my brides are ordering include wedding white cake, chocolate cake, strawberry cake, carrot cake, and even grandma’s favorite recipe cake. There are no hard and fast rules and it is entirely the couples’ decision which they would like to select.
Of course you’ve thought of the dress, the colors, the flowers, the invitations… And now it’s time to think about the wedding cake. So where do you start?
Wedding cake traditions
Wedding cakes are a predominantly Western tradition in marriage ceremonies. It is the tradition that a newly married couple stand together, hand on hand, and cut the cake together. This is because cutting the cake is a symbol of unity and togetherness. Cutting the wedding cake together is also another essential marker of the couple’s commitment to one another on their special day. This is basically the reason why wedding cakes are still so popular in modern culture.
Mohegan Sun unveiled the world’s biggest wedding cake at the New England Bridal Showcase on February 08, 2004.
The wedding cake measured 17 feet high and weighed a whopping 15,032 pounds.
It was made from 10,000 pounds of pound cake batter and 4,810 pounds of icing and could feed 59,000 people.
Quite the extravagance …
He’s a 3,000 year-old baby with wings, he shoots love-tipped arrows into unsuspecting people, and his name is Cupid: The God of Love.
Cupid, in Roman mythology, the god of love. He was the son of Venus. His father sometimes was named as Mars, at other times as Jupiter or Mercury. Cupid is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god of love, Eros. He usually is pictured as a winged and naked infant, armed with a bow and arrows, and blind or blindfolded. A person whose heart was pierced by Cupid’s arrow was supposed to fall in love with someone.
Envelopes
In the 18th century the invitation would be placed in a handmade envelope and sealed with hot wax imprinted with the family crest. Servants were then made to deliver the letters as there was no postal service. Now because this task was completed on horseback in all weathers, there became a need for an ‘outer envelope’. This not only protected the invitation, but was used to write directions for the servants. For example “Travel one day north to Newcastle. There, cross the stone bridge and proceed past three farms until you see the stone entrance marked ‘Williamson’. Remove this covering, and give the invitation to the doorman. Wait there for a response and make a note of same”.
In Brazil, the “Day of Enamored” or “Boyfriends’/Girlfriends” Day” is celebrated on June 12th, when couples exchange gifts, chocolates, cards and flower bouquets. This day was chosen probably because it is the day before the Festa junina’s Saint Anthony’s Day, know there as the marriage saint, when traditionally many single women perform popular rituals, called simpatias, in order to find a good husband or boyfriend.
The February 14th Valentine’s Day is not celebrated at all, mainly for cultural and commercial reasons, since it usually falls too little before or after Carnival, a major floating holiday in Brazil-long regarded as a holiday of sex and debauchery by many in the country – that can fall anywhere from early February to early March.
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