The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-19
GORGEOUS WEDDING CAKES
Splendid Structures Of Sugar Build
ing For the Brides of the Hour.

ing For the Brides of the Hour.
At the wedding of Miss Elsie French
and Mr. Vanderbilt, a salwart and beauti-
full wedding cake that measured four feet
and Ea.r from the base to toDnOst
hover was enc of the interesting tea
lures OF The bridal breakfast. The little
queen CT ZOD1ud, though she doubtless
heard nothing about this towering sugar
CaStle, has broken Its record by ordering
one loot ana half taller These two
brides, On their respective sides of the
water. have Therefore set the fashion IN
favor OF lofty cakes.
The one made Tor Miss French was set
upon an exquisite base of open worked
SILVER gilt. On top of the plaster and
sugar monument stood a charming vase
OF transparent sugar crystal and from
LhlS moved down a wonderful shower
bouquet OF natural orange blossoms and
srnlla&- Clear or tinted sugar crvSta Is
ana natural flowers az not the only ma
terlals Tor decoration used in the making
OF the grand E5W wedding cakes Paint
ed ana SD3ngled satin panels are let into
the four or eight big facets of the sugar
ed base very O1ten, and at the wedding
last autumn OF well known American
helTess the whole cake was cast in plas-
Ter ana carried triumphantly to ner new
nome py me bride and set up under a
glass case to serve as monument and
memor-al of he bridal day.
The queen OF Holland 5 wedding cake
IS built IN six tiers or terraces, in the
sides of which in sugar her christening.
her review of the fleets. her opening OF
trothai, and finally, about the base of the
small sixth terrace, her wedding is illus
tTattd in high relief. The likeness of
the queen and her husband, done in icing
are said TO be exact, but beside the sugar
castle special round loaf is to be made
IOF heF wedding as Is the fashion now
t-QayS al our own WeuuIDgS- Into the
loaf ring, thimbIe and a gold heart are
slipped and only the bride and her maids
and ushers and nearest of kin eat of this
cake.
For the wedding guests it is still the
las h-On 10 prepare cake boxes At Miss
BIcrpOnC MOTgan'S wedding the boxes
were covered with white watere6 silk
and on top of the cake that lay inside
each pretty receptacle the eutwined in
iulaI OF the bride and groom were writ
ten IN white sugar. For this beautiful
wedding celebration the great cake was
dOubie-stOTT white sugar temple of the
purest classic mOuld-an exceedingly per
feet expression Of cOnfectiOners' art, but
very costly one as well
With the entry of this new taste for
lofty cakes Of elaborate designs. the IA
theirs of rich brides may excuSdbly quar-
rel. For one gorgeous cake designed and
and this did not include its transpOrta-
ton TO its destination, under the care of
two competent men, who were obliged to
travel with it. in order to see that no in
jury was done its delicate decorations
and also In order to put it together on
no less than SO is paid for the Loaf the
bride cuts and WIsn crowded reception
is given the contents OF the cake loaded
table prepared 1or the guests in the hall
way cOaxeS at the last another $50 from
the indulSent parent; that is if the cake
ated in proper and fashionable style.
FANNY ENDERS.