The article is great and my wedding cakes got the best spot in the article and headline as well!
The reporter wrote about a very specific type of wedding cake, a wedding cake that is very common in south America, and you can also see it sometimes in north America: A charms wedding cake.
In Israel this type of cake has a nickname- Argentinian Wedding Cake, because mostly Argentinian originated Brides and Grooms tend to order this type of cake. In Argentina and other south American countries, this is a customary cake, and it holds a very special concept.
Here is the 1st page of the article in the magazine, the other two pages of this article dealt with wedding blogs etc':
The title of the article says "I DO" |
I wanna tell you a bit more about this charms wedding cake:
In Argentina the custom is to bake the cake with the charms inside.
The charms are small symbols of love, luck, health, wealth, affection, and more. They come in many different shapes: hearts, cupids, flowers, horse shoes, air crafts, 4 leaves clovers, bells, baby shoes, one single wedding band (ring not music players) and more...
They're also made of different materials, plastic, silver or silver coated metals.
Original Argentinian charms |
The charms for this cake were cell phone decorations - they were very cute! |
Once the bride chooses her preferred charms, they are tied to long satin ribbons and placed in the cake. The ribbon is left outside to mark the place of each charm.
According to the custom, all the bachelorettes are invited to take part in the charms ceremony and they gather around the cake, each one holds onto one of the ribbons and when given the sign, they all pull the ribbons together to expose the charms they got.
The lucky one being----- of course! the one that pulled out the ring! Legend has it that she'll be the next to marry.
Charms Wedding Cake |
The ceremony called "the ceremony of ribbon pulling", usually took place during a special luncheon held for the bridesmaids, or just after the cake cutting ceremony.
Actually, the number of charms was equal to the number of bridesmaids.
Each charm holds a special meaning, an aircraft means trip or adventure, the clover means good luck and the ring means you will be the next to get engaged and married
Now days, this special cake can be seen at weddings both in south and north America, but mainly in the southern states such as Louisiana.
There are different approaches as to combining the charms in the cake: some bake the cake with the charms, some place the charms between two levels/ tiers of the cake- top and middle, some just push the charms into the cake after baking. We place the charms on the fondant after the cake has been covered (for extra safety measures).
classic wedding cake with silver charms bought at the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem |
Until next time,
Cake away!
Sharon
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