Brides and Grooms cakes

 So this post is about Brides cakes and grooms cakes.  Both cakes shown here are from years ago and long before I could take decent pictures of my cakes.  But it's fun to talk a little about the tradition of brides cakes and grooms cakes. This is the fun way it was taught to my daughter and she loved to share this with me. So I will share it with you in the way she learned it.   Long, long ago, weddings served rich wonderful cakes and desserts at a wedding.  A rum cake, a chocolate cake etc.  Then pulled sugars and delicate cakes became the rage for those who had the money to affod them.  Only the elite could have a fancy delicate cake.  But people found they didn't taste as good as the old cakes that they had.  So the tradition began that the brides family did a beautiful delicate cake that all could see and be impressed with.  But the grooms family provided a second cake that was rich and decadent and all wanted to eat.  Today, not as many continue the tradition of the grooms cakes.  Part of this I believe is that we can do so much more with the "delicate pretty cake" and have it taste good inside.  But here is an example from years ago of a wedding that I did that did have a brides cake and a grooms cake.  The top one had flowers added by a florist later.  The bottom one the leis were not put on quite straight leaving the cake looking crooked from this angle.  But before digital cameras if you weren't an amazing photographer you didn't know this until a few weeks later when you got your prints developed as happened here.