Why do we eat year old cake???

The question “why do we eat year old cake?” came to me yesterday as I went to Mama’s to pick up our defrosted (thanks, Mama!) top tier of our wedding cake to eat on our anniversary. I took our polka dotted cake home and proceeded to unwrap the plastic. The icing still tasted pretty normal…we decided to proceed with the rest. I cut into the cake and put a piece on a plate for Stan and me to taste…yuck! It’s hard to even describe the consistency! Not very tasty! I looked on the Internet and found why people eat it…”By tradition, a bride and groom save the top tier of their wedding cake (also known as the Anniversary Tier) to share on the first anniversary of their wedding date. Considered to be good luck contributing to a long life together, it will also give you the unique opportunity to again feel the love and emotions of your wedding day. Partaking of the cake on this date will give you another perfect opportunity to renew your love and commitment to each other.” I must say tasting our wedding cake yesterday gave neither Stan nor I the opportunity to feel the love and emotions of our wedding day…it tasted nothing like that a year ago! I am very interested to hear if anyone’s wedding cake was good a year later…

Here is our year old cake...very different from what it looked like a year ago!!!