Wedding Cakes

History And Culture Of Wedding Cakes

We all like eating delicious and mouth melting wedding cakes and they are actually the most expected moment of a wedding, but have we ever wondered what is the history and culture of wedding cakes and how have we got to such appetizing and incredibly tasty :creatures”?




We should all recognize that the only thing that matters to us today is to eat the wedding cake and afterwards eat some more. Who cares about the history and culture of the wedding cake, about its symbols, meanings and significations, now that there are so many interesting, stunning, creative, artistic and appetizing designs, styles, shapes, flavors and fillings that make a wedding cake more than it really was in its ancient beginnings!

As we all can imagine, the wedding cake, as it was firstly conceived and recognized during the Romans period is was made to symbolize the wealth, prosperity, fertility, protection and happiness of the future couple. There is no other wedding item that can represent better the harvest and the abundance that it is to be destined in the future for the happy holly couple than the wedding cake. In the early Romans era, the couple’s family used to bake a loaf of sweet bread for the groom to break it above the bride’s head. The pieces of the broken bread were to tell of the number of the couple’s children.

The crumbs were taken and eaten by the guests of the wedding as a symbol of good luck. With time, this thin loaf of bread started to become larger and larger, sweeter and sweeter, just to satisfy the taste of all the wedding attendants. Later in time, the history and culture of wedding cakes show us that certain communities started to bake a confection made from sugar, egg, milk, honey, butter, flat and flour.

The eating patterns started to change too, and this is how the wedding cake as we know it today caught wings and that simple sweeten bread turned into something more elaborated, delicious and creamy. Some say that North Americans were the center of wedding cake developers, while other rumors attest the fact that Egyptians or Greeks were the ones who encouraged the tradition of the wedding cake.

North Americans are renowned for enriching the wedding cake’s taste, using new flavors, such as chocolate, butter, currants and spices. It’s hard to imagine now how the ancient civilizations used to cook the cake or the bread on a hot stones. These days the wedding cake is more than a regular desert. In most cases, the wedding cake today looks like a real piece of art because of the detailed and refined work. Only the western counties managed to preserve the traditions, significations and symbols of the wedding cake and refused to develop artistic patterns.