THE ROYAL BRIDE CAKE.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7422, 23 September 1889, Page 5

THE ROYAL BRIDE CAKE.

_*he wedding cake grtepared in; connection with,, the recent 'royal marriage was as magnificent an edifice, of sugar-nodel-lin_r and' fretwork as erver ; <*ast the gloom of indigestion over the aonshineof nuptial* festivity. ; It was a tall slender structure, gift in height, resting, on, a c&cular pedestals 2_fc ia diameter. It. weighed 1501b5., and was all in> white sugar and delicate' white flowers': with oary a-'few-touches of deep color in the velVet and* goid.;'c6rouets that fajced'the four panels on * which, were worked- the monograms. It came from Gunter's, the famous old house in Berkeley square, which has rhade ell the wedding cakes for all the royal and aristocratic marriages since the' Queen was married fifty years ago. •■'■-"• ■•'..•••. calce properwas 4tn or sin above the ped-stai; arid "wSew a balky cylinder,l4iu fn'hetttnt And 'Win. in clrcctmferehcd. It had' aU the estpenSiVe ingredients; from citrons' to' raisins, Which are supposed to add jojf to the weddiiiigr scene. It had t four pariels, two of them bearing the monogram"L.D.W."' <l_b_ls_ Dagniar of ! Wales); and "A. G. F." (Alexander George of life). Above each was the red and gold Coronet. , Between the panels the three feathers of the Prince of Walee 1 were embossed, and each' panel was very tastefully bedded and partly framed in delicate white arum' lilies, White, rose--buds, white orange 1 blosspthS, jahd small white ' convbl vuii. "Above the'" cUke was a Greek temple, resting ba eight white" columns, aud the dome, which risfes in diminishing t'fei's,' supported a white classifcal, on Whose head-was'a vase from whtcß'bidomed a crown of, vfhite flowers, which''surmounted the' -whole. ' Eour delicate pendants fell from this, reaching nearly to the. base. Tbey were composed of single flowers with joined stems. One was of snow-white-rosebuds and tiny sprigs of heather. Another, was of orange buds and blossoms: The third w&s of small lilac sprays, and the fourth of small convolvuli and* heather.' The- {Scotch thistle, represented by half a dozen specimens,, formed the base of the-flowerc_*o'Wn» ahafcartly- wreathed* the idgure;