WEDDING CAKE MODERNISED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 July 1927, Page 15

WEDDING CAKE MODERNISED.

NEW STYLE DECORATIONS. Even the wedding, with its immemorial traditions, js being a lie e ted by modern ideas. “People are no longer content with the old iced and befiowered cake, whether in one tier or three, said a representativ oi Messrs. Lyons to the “Daily Chronicle.” “They come to us with the most astonishing requests and instructions, and the whole art of wedding cake architecture is being changed. “As a result, the decoration of the bridal cake is becoming more difficultthan ever, and -some of our confectioners may almost be described as sculptors in sugar-icing.” The “Daily Chronicle” representative examined some of the- latest forms of the wedding caek. One took the shape of a female figure seated upon a globe and holding aloft an aeroplane. On the wings of the machine little Cupids were sitting. Another was modelled like a church with arches and pinnacle and Cupid in the place of more sacred istatues. In the centre, beneath the meeting arches, a larger Cupid standing at an anvil, forged two gold' rings into a link. Tiny flowers surrounded the sugar walls of the church, which was entered by means of green “marble” steps. Above a belfry enclosed a chime of silver hells. Side by side with these up-to-date affairs were grouped examples of the earliest wedding cakes known to history. One was a plain wheaten loaf baked in the form of a wheats-heaf and gilded. This was the lloman bridal cake. In Chaucer’s times the wedding feast was graced by a wholemeal loaf-cake, sweetened with honey, sugar not having been introduced into England. The earliest English wedding cake was a confection of aromatic ingredients, roughly smeared with icing sugar, into which were stuck bitter almonds. The sugar and the almonds together symbolised the mingled ideasure and pain incidental to the married state.