Wedding Cakes

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Valentine Day Wedding Cakes

It is in the Rome of the 5th Century that we date back the name of a celebration called Valentine’s day. It came throughout the February festival of worshipping God of fertility and celebrating the sensual pleasure. That was the time when couples could meet their soul mate and because of this fact people needed a ‘lovers’ saint to morally justify their quest for the beloved one.  And that saint was found to be the martyred Bishop Valentine who was accused and sentenced to...

Seahorse Wedding Cakes

Everything that comes in relation to a wedding ceremony has to carry details or images or figures that have symbolic meanings. Starting with weeding gowns colors, to flowers types, to decorations, to cakes, invitations, all these need to bear a seed of a symbol that connects them to the event itself. Wedding couples use the stylistic of the elements in order to print the mark of their inner feelings toward both the ceremony and the guests. For those who select as location for their wedding the...

United States Army Wedding Cakes

Wedding cakes are gaining every year more and more creative designs and they tend to accurately describe the theme or the situation of the wedding ceremony. The tradition of the wedding cake goes back to the Roman era. There wasn’t of course the custom to decorate the baked cake or top it or ice it as the wedding cake consist of a loaf of bread that was broken in pieces over the heads of the bridal couple. This meant to bring them good luck and prosperity. Middle Age brought with it...

Flowers In Wedding Cakes

We can say about a cake that it is finished after we enhance its edible value by covering it with frosting, icing or toppings. And not only its edible value is enhanced but also the way it looks in the eyes of the people that are meant to eat it. There are so many processes that have developed in time for the topping, frosting or icing, each one of them bringing inventive and creative ways to make the cake look more gorgeous than the one that was baked before. In the late 20th century new...

Calla Lilies On Wedding Cakes

When bakers use flowers in their art of decorating wedding cakes they need to know something about the meaning of the flowers and use their symbolism in the artistic design. Flower symbolism began with many ancient religions and it was continued in the religious art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, reaching its highest in the Victorian Era. Flowers were symbolically related to ancient deities such as Venus, Diana, Jupiter and Apollo. The Renaissance period gave birth to the belief that...

Picture Of A Jamaican Wedding Cakes And Icing

Just for one moment close your eyes and picture this: the fresh colors of tropical flowers, a blue sky crossed over by some puffy clouds and the sound of the waves crashing on the nearby sand. Then imagine a wedding couple into this picture kissing each other while they promise eternal love. What better view can be displayed in front of the eyes of your imagination if not the one of a couple getting married in a perfect harmony of feelings and landscape? Now with the picture in our mind, the...