wedding cake

I need a recipe for a tradition wedding cake? Does anyone have the old recipe for a wedding cake that has dried raisins, wine or brandy(beer) and its brown in color. It lasts for over a year even without being refrigerated. They hardly serve them in morden day weddings.
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Out of curiosity, how does this differ from a fruit cake?

Hi,

I think this person is indeed asking for a fruitcakes, which is a common wedding cake for some cultures. If there is an English cultural component, there will be hard icing on the cake, too.

Southern Cakes by Nancie McDermott has a chapter of fruitcakes of various hues, fruits and composition. I personally like dates, so a datenut fruitcake would make me sing.

Whatever you choose, I hope you will let us know and perhaps upload a picture, too.

Regards,

pahosky wrote:I need a recipe for a tradition wedding cake? Does anyone have the old recipe for a wedding cake that has dried raisins, wine or brandy(beer) and its brown in color. It lasts for over a year even without being refrigerated. They hardly serve them in morden day weddings.

I know exactly what cake you are describing, my mother - whose family is French - used to make this for weddings. She always finished it with sugared grapes, it was a really unique cake. I'll give her a call tomorrow and see if she can provide me with the recipe or a reasonable approximation. Knowing her, she just throws it all together from memory.

Okay, mom is looking for the recipe, but this is what she emailed me when I asked her if she recalled the recipe for the cake:

"it was a spice cake with pecans, candied pineapple, raisins and candied cherries. Used two sizes of bundt pans to bake it and then soaked it in brandy for about two weeks. It was wrapped in cheese cloth during the maturation period. The garpes were dipped in egg whites and then sugar chrystls. I will look up the recipe, I know that I still have it and send it to you."

She did not provide a name for the cake or any other details, perhaps when she locates the actual recipe, but does that sound familiar to anyone? Not sure if this is the cake the OP was referring to, but it seems like it could be.

Fig Wedding Cake

If you follow this link, there is an interesting story on decorating a wedding cake in a hot 102 degree kitchen.

Regards.

Fruitcakes are still popular as wedding cakes in the UK...and my go-to resource for British Isles cooking is the BBC website. Here's what they've got: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/reci ... ding-cake/ There are three different fruitcakes in the list.