Tiered Wedding Cakes
Tiered Wedding Cakes
The first wedding cakes were very simple compared to today's multi-tiered masterpieces.
The first multi-tiered cakes were made for royal weddings in England, with the first one not even having "true" upper tiers (they were made of spun sugar rather than being actual cakes).
As these upper tiers evolved into real cakes, the problem of preventing the upper layers from sinking into the lower layers was prevalent.
The idea of using pillars to decorate a cake was present before the multi-tiered cakes appeared, so it was natural for bakers to regard this as a way to support the upper tiers.
To prevent the pillars from sinking into the bottom tier, icing was hardened to support the pillars.
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