1. Most expensive wedding cake had cost $30 million
Buddy Valastro (better known as Cake Boss from the famed TLC cake show) of NYC prepared the cake at the request socialite Devorah Rose for her diamond gala event. According to reports, the cake was adorned with jewels worth $30 million.
2. Queen Victoria was one of the first to have pure white icing on her wedding cake.
This is the reason that it’s called as royal icing.
3. The groom’s cake has been in existence since the 17th century.
The groom’s cake was usually a fruitcake that symbolized fertility
4. It used to be bridal pie, not wedding cake.
Till 19th century, “bride’s pie” (not cake) was served at the wedding and it was later that the cakes came into limelight for weddings.
5. Cake under your pillow.
As per an old belief, a single woman who sleeps with a slice of the groom’s cake under her pillow would have dream of her husband.
6. Largest wedding cake ever
The largest wedding cake was prepared in US for the Mohegan Sun casino. It was17 feet tall and 15,032 pounds, prepared from 10,000 pounds of cake batter and 4,810 pounds of frosting to create the towering confection.
7. Initially wedding cakes comprised of loaves of bread
Initially, there were not proper wedding cakes rather loaves of bread were used that was broken over bride’s head to symbolize good fortune and fertility to the couple.
8. Tallest ever cakes was almost 26 feet tall.
The tallest cake ever made (on record) was 25.65 feet tall wherein the towering confection consisted of 850 sponge cakes, shaped like cake bricks, glued together with caramel.
9. First sweet wedding cake appeared in 1655.
Until 1655, Breads and rolls were usually broken at weddings till the time Banbury cake (sweet wedding cake) became popular.
10. Cake toppers weren’t popular until the 50s.
Cake toppers became popular after 1950s when couples in the US started using them on their wedding cakes.