Too, different countries have bakeries with their specialties.

We use cakes for any and all celebrations: Wedding, Graduation, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Gender Reveal, Bar and Bat Mitzvah, Christmas, Eid Mubarek after Ramadan, Birthday, and Farewell. Worshippers brought moon-shaped cakes to the Temple of Artemis: the goddess of the moon and the hunt, with candles to have them glow like the moon. Putting candles on cakes was a Greek invention. But we do know people have been attributing the phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” to her for nearly two hundred years - and debunking it for just as long.Īpparently, the Romans baked birthday cakes.Ĭhildren’s birthday parties originated in Germany, with the 18c. Usually attributed to Marie Antoinette but there are dissenters to this notion, citing no evidence that Marie-Antoinette ever said this. Image: kind permission of Susan Leonard Hanes, Chicago One such superb example representing an illuminated manuscript was for the Edible Book April Fool’s Day Tea at Columbia College Book and Paper Center a few years ago.It was designed, baked and decorated Susan Leonard Hanes, past president of the Caxton. Truly the range of skill and ingenuity is astonishing, not to mention the extreme attention to detail and care, especially impressive when using such volatile and unstable materials as frosting and decorating pipes. but honestly the pâtisseries and cake stores have amazing cakes, and we have so many sources for cakes in Chicago!īut even though I don’t bake cakes, many do, and many decorate in exquisite detail with such imagination, and flair.Īll over, cakes being made with personal interests depicted, sports memorabilia, family events.

MANY, MANY hours later, and a sink filled with all baking equipment, the lemon poppyseed cake was ready. Thus I purchased the 6” round tins for a triple layer cake. In relating the request to another friend, she said that not having a cake tin was UN-AMERICAN. Hmmmmm… No, that won’t do, said my friend.

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