bride-cake

The bride-cake was as bilious and indigestible as if a real Bride had cut it, and the dinner it completed was an admirable performance.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

Mr. Idle diverting the conversation to grouse, custards, and bride-cake, Mr. Goodchild followed in the same direction.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

Nora has made her a bride-cake with frosting as white as snow,

Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

'It looks like bride-cake,' replied the dwarf, grinning.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

'Twill set the other charming daughters dreaming of bride-cake.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

The bride-cake cut by the bride, with the wedding ring for some fortunate future spouse, seems to be still potent.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

As we were discharging them off Jeddah, a plump and respectable Aden merchant whom I knew by sight, but who did not know me in the guise I then wore, was gazing in rapt enthusiasm at sun-scorched Jeddah, which, against the sterile country beyond, looked like a stale bride-cake on a dust heap.

Pan-Islam

The bride-cake is no longer cut and served at weddings; the present of cake in boxes has superseded that.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Messrs. Scribner & Welford, New York, a large number of practical, though novel, receipts are given for making cakes of various kinds, from the informal griddle-cake to the stately bride-cake, without eggs, by the use of Royal Baking Powder.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Various

As the ring is the expressive emblem of the perpetuity of the compact, and as the bride-cake and customary libations form significant symbols of the nectar sweets of matrimony, it will not do to banish the cake altogether, although few people eat it, and few wish to carry it away.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood