Wedding cakes have the meaning of bringing happiness and blessings to the newlyweds. And over the years, as the modern wedding cake has evolved, different countries have developed their own versions. These cakes have different characteristics and are all very beautiful.
1. Fruit Multi-Layer Cake
Fruitcake is a very popular wedding cake in Ireland. These cakes include dates, dried plums, raisins and orange peels. This layered cake usually contains macaroons, butter or fondant.
2. Tree Cake
In Lithuania, the traditional wedding dessert is the tree cake, shaped like an evergreen tree as butter, egg white, sugar, flour and cream dough drips onto the swirling dough to form branches.
The name means "branched tree" and is an icon of a more enduring love. A cake version with a height of 16-36 inches can also be found in Poland, while for weddings the "twigs" can be decorated with sugar flowers.
3. Baumkuchen
Baumkuchen is baked by rolling layers of honey and almond batter around the cake to achieve the ring shape.
It consists of at least 15 layers and it resembles those growth rings in the trunk and is a lucky symbol. At weddings, Baumkuchen can be decorated with colored powdered sugar for a visual impact.
4. Thousand Layer Cake
At many weddings in Indonesia, couples share a three-layer sponge cake called a lasagna, which represents the ladder of success. It is layered and looks like a western wedding cake. And the inside is always three layers, two yellow butter layers, and a cocoa-flavored black cake.
After cutting the cake, the newlyweds not only feed each other, showing that they will share life lessons from now on, but also serve their parents and grandparents the cake as a sign of respect.
Layer cakes are generally cut from the bottom rather than from the top, symbolizing the newlyweds climbing the ladder of success together.
5. Wreath Cake
In Denmark, Iceland, and Norway, couples get married by making wreath cakes, which are small continuous rings made of almond paste, confectioners' sugar, and egg whites.
Ice-white exterior, decorated with sugar flowers and bows, it's light and delicious. It also represents luck because, a wreath cake is like a wedding ring and a good marriage, each "wreath" cake is round, symbolizing that happiness has no end.
6. Caramel Cream Muffin Cake
Weddings in France have a very popular cream muffin, a pyramid of cream puffs linked by caramel. It probably dates back to the late 18th century, as it was discovered in an 1815 cookbook.
The cream inside each pastry can be made with vanilla and pistachios. In France, fireworks are set off while the bride and groom cut the cake.
