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Italian wedding cake martini

Features:
  • Sweet
Cuisine:
  • 10 mins
  • Serves 1
  • Easy

Ingredients

How to Make Italian wedding cake martini

  • Combine the ingredients and ice in a cocktail shaker
  • Shake it briefly, but vigorously, just enough for the mixture to blend right.
  • Pour into a martini glass.
  • Moisten the rims of the martini glasses with the pineapple juice. Shake off and dip into the cake mixture.

Trivia

  • The Martini is one of the most widely consumed cocktail, tracing its roots back to as early as 1862.
  • The popularity of gin has waned over the years and the original recipe has been lost in time, changing considerably during the centuries.
  • When it comes to cakes, Queen Victoria was one of the first people to have pure white icing on her wedding cake.
  • It used to be called bridal pie, but the name was changed to wedding cake.
  • The largest wedding cake ever had about 10,000 pounds of cake batter and over 4800 pounds of frosting. It stood at 17 feet tall and weighed over 15,000 pounds.
  • The first wedding cake ever was composed of loaves of bread.
  • The tallest ever cake is over 26 feet tall.
  • It wasn’t until the 1950s that cake toppers became popular, when couples started to use them on their wedding cakes.
  • Italians eat a bread cake known as il panettone, at Christmas.
  • At Easter, Italians have a tradition of eating a special bread cake which is in the shape of a dove. It is called La Colomba.
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