I find it amazing how much cake decorating has changed from when I was young. When I grew up rolled icing on fruit cake, decorated with delicate piped flowers and lacework, was the norm for things like wedding cakes. It was a process that would take weeks or months to do, painstaking intricate work. Fresh cakes with the buttercream frosting were for children’s parties and novelties. It all changed very quickly when the fashion changed to using the wedding cake as dessert instead of something to keep, and the old style fruit cakes disappeared very quickly.
My Nana used to keep wedding and engagement fruit cake in a tin. 2 Questions were needed. Who’s wedding/engagement and how long ago? Then you’d put the lid back on.
I had to watch a YT because I could not imagine how it worked lol, but now it makes total sense, thank you!
I find it amazing how much cake decorating has changed from when I was young. When I grew up rolled icing on fruit cake, decorated with delicate piped flowers and lacework, was the norm for things like wedding cakes. It was a process that would take weeks or months to do, painstaking intricate work. Fresh cakes with the buttercream frosting were for children’s parties and novelties. It all changed very quickly when the fashion changed to using the wedding cake as dessert instead of something to keep, and the old style fruit cakes disappeared very quickly.
My Nana used to keep wedding and engagement fruit cake in a tin. 2 Questions were needed. Who’s wedding/engagement and how long ago? Then you’d put the lid back on.