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.