wedding cake

See also: wedding-cake

English

A traditional Western-style wedding cake at a celebration in Germany.

Noun

wedding cake (countable and uncountable, plural wedding cakes)

1. A decorated cake, often in several tiers and with a model bride and groom, that is cut by the couple as part of a wedding ceremony and distributed to the guests.

Related terms

• wedding pie (historical antecedent to the wedding cake)

 

Translations

cake used as part of a wedding ceremony

• Azerbaijani: toy tortu
• Bulgarian: сва́тбена то́рта f (svátbena tórta)
• Danish: bryllupskage (da) c
• Dutch: bruiloftstaart (nl) m, bruidstaart (nl) m
• Finnish: hääkakku
• French: gâteau de mariage m, pièce montée (fr) f
• German: Hochzeitstorte (de) f
• Hungarian: esküvői torta (hu)
• Icelandic: brúðarterta f, brúðkaupsterta (is) f
• Irish: cáca bainise m
• Italian: torta nuziale f
• Japanese: ウェディングケーキ (wedingu kēki)
• Latin: mustāceus m
• Maori: keke mārenatanga
• Norman: gâche des neuches f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bryllupskake (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: bryllaupskake f

• Polish: tort weselny m
• Portuguese: bolo de casamento m
• Russian: сва́дебный торт m (svádebnyj tort), сва́дебный пиро́г m (svádebnyj piróg)
• Scottish Gaelic: bonnach-bainnse m
• Spanish: tarta de boda f, pastel de bodas m
• Swedish: bröllopstårta (sv) c
• Turkish: düğün pastası (tr)
• Ukrainian: весі́льний торт m (vesílʹnyj tort)
• Welsh: cacen briodas (cy) f