Anyone for a piece of wedding cake?

It's such a historic day here in the UK and the Commonwealth and there's probably not going to be much blog reading going on ........well not at least until we get our first glimpses of that dress and that "Kiss Me Kate" moment on the balcony!   I couldn't let this day go by without a special post here for Prince William and Catherine and I hope and pray that they will have a marriage just like the recipe for this wedding cake. 

A Good Wedding Cake

Author Unknown


Ingredients 

4 lb. of love.
1 lb. butter of youth.
1/2 lb. of good looks.
l lb. sweet temper.
1 lb. of blindness for faults.
1 lb. of self forgetfulness.
l lb. of pounded wit.
l lb. of good humour.
2 tablespoons of sweet argument.
1 pint of rippling laughter.
1 wine glass of common sense.
1 oz. modesty.

Method

• Put the love, good looks and sweet temper into a well furnished house. 
• Beat the butter of youth to a cream, and mix well together with the blindness of faults. 
• Stir the pounded wit and good humour into the sweet argument, 
• then add the rippling laughter and common sense. 
• Work the whole together until everything is well mixed, 
• and bake gently for ever.

A Royal Wedding Mega Cupcake

Anyone for cake?

I adore cake as some of my friends know very well though I'm not a great lover of icing.  But here's another piece of wedding cake that I don't think anyone would even consider having a nibble of. A piece of the Royal Wedding Cake from Queen  Elizabeth and Prince Phillips wedding was found 2 weeks ago in a filing cabinet 64 years after its best before date.  I think I'll pass on that!

There are going to be 2 wedding cakes this evening - one a layered fruit cake iced with edible flowers including an English rose, a Scottish thistle, a Welsh daffodil and an Irish shamrock.  The other will be an unbaked chocolate biscuit cake by McVitie's made to a secret Royal Family recipe specially requested by William as it was a childhood favourite of his....  yummy (we're having a chocolate cake as well as a fruit wedding cake in a few weeks time at our family wedding).

The flour Flower Kind

Now since this a backyard nature blog I think this post needs a few love heart sprinkles and some brides blossom ...... of the flower kind from my own Spring garden!

 

Dicentra

 

Spirea ajuta

 

In your opinion did the author leave anything out in his/her ingredients or method for a good wedding cake?

Did you have different types of layers in your wedding cake?............. (mine was just a very rich fruit cake).

Interested in this topic? You might enjoy another article I’ve written called

• Brides Blossom and Petal Carpets

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