Doily Cakes

Doily cakes are soft small cakes that have pressed flower designs into them. They can have sweet fillings made out of a fluffy cream or fruit with marmelade. They are a typical snack food for family gathering and celebrations, mostly birthdays or anniversaries. There are different moulds and designs in different regions or families all around the globe.
The most famous doily cakes are the wedding ones. They are usually filled with a filling of particular colour (most often it's green), that is unknown to the groom and bride as this dish is usually prepared by the mother-in-laws. The bride and the groom take alternating bites out of it without using their own hands. It is usually a bit messy colourful fun, as the colour is supposed to stain both of their lips and is mostly supposed to signify faitfulness to one another. The bride always takes the first bite (or it is the person with lower social standing or it is the person who has been on the accepting side of a proposal for marriage and not the one asking) and that act is what is considered to be the "consumation of marriage" not really the physical act of making love. It signifies the willingess to join the two families together and to stand side by side until the end.
Different colours have different meanings or so called "promises" that the newly weds are making to one another. While wedding doily cakes in the poorer families are usually palm sized and it only takes two bites to eat them in whole, in richer families it can be a cake the size of a whole table with different sections and fillings and decorations that is consumed pretty much thorough the entire evening or the week following the wedding itself. Aristocrat celebrations can get pretty wild.