Every wonder WHY a wedding cake looks like a wedding cake? Sure it's tradition, but from where did the tradition come? Here is another case in which even people who scorn the Church enjoy the traditions that flow from her gentle influence over our culture without even realizing it.
The story goes like this; a baker wanted to create a spectacular cake for a newly married couple's wedding celebration. He looked at the spire of St. Bride's Church in Barcelona and thought to recreate it in the form of the cake. As you can see from the picture below that I took about seven years ago, the tower is assembled in a number of layers that somewhat resemble the traditional form of a wedding cake today. First there is the base cake, then a raised level and a smaller cake, then a raised level and a smaller cake . . .
Of course it was hit and quickly spread through the cullenary world. Besides being elegant and impressive, it is also very pracitcal.
Now, won't it be interesting next time you go to a wedding reception and the see the bride and groom, dressed to the nines, acting so mature and serious just hours before, now dancing the worm before a cake designed to remind them of the Church in which they took solemn vows?
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