History Victorian "Bride Cake"

[nitrofd]

Beatrice's cake is amazing,if you look at the detail just try and figure out how long it took to decorate a cake.I learned how to decorate a cake and my wife is a master at it this cake is really hard to fathom how it was done.

 

[donna]

All these cakes are works of art. I wonder if they tasted as good as they looked.

Sometimes I have found it both ways with cakes. Some very decorated ones taste awful and others are quite good. I think it totally depends on who is doing the baking.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Detail from top of Victoria's cake:
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Britannia blessing the newlyweds. Note the doggie about to pull the flowers down and the pigeons, which just flew in from Trafalgar Square.

It's possible the little dog might have been Queen's beloved dog Dash, a King Charles spaniel.

Amazing wedding cakes - they are truly works of art. It's such a pity they were cut up and eaten! It breaks my heart sometimes when I watch the British Baking Show and the constants work so hard for a few hours to create these amazing baked goods with such attention to detail to literally have it eaten almost immediately.

 

[mofederal]

I am not surprised that someone saved a piece of Queen Victoria's wedding cake, but it sort of looks like a piece of wood. No taste test for that one hopefully. The cakes are very highly detailed. As stated the taste could go either way, very good or sort of real bad. Still an interesting thread. Thanks @Eleanor Rose for the thread on wedding cakes in Victorian times.

 

[Deleted User CS]

Ellie. A very interesting thread with a lot of interesting information. By the way, I read in Reader's Digest many years ago that more divorces occurred when the couple married in the month of June. Also, my neighbor from my hometown near Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the home of the Little League World Series, used to make wedding cakes for years. The tallest cake she made was a ten tier wedding cake for a politician's daughter. She had quite a wedding cake business. Nevertheless, You and I seem to like the Victorian lifestyle and its a shame more modern people do not practice the morals associated with the lifestyle. David.

 

[byron ed]

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