AGC CELEBRATED ITS ANNUAL EVENT OF CAKE-MIXING CEREMONY 2022

The Amritsar Group of Colleges hosted its annual 'Cake-Mixing Ceremony- 2022' ahead of the Christmas season. The principals of Amritsar's numerous prominent schools marked their presence in the ceremony and generously participated in the event, having a lot of fun and a beautiful experience.

The ceremony marked its beginning from the 17th century in which the ceremony was introduced to mark the beginning of harvest season in some countries. One month prior to Christmas, all of the festive fruit cake's components—such as mixed peels, pears, and brown sugar—are marinated with wine and booze. The cake is then mixed, and on Christmas Day, it is served to friends, family, and other close relatives.

Different combinations of fruits, nuts, and spices were added to a large cauldron. Numerous gloved hands rolled up their sleeves and joined in a robust mixing of dry fruits and nuts for plum cakes with spirits while others poured endless bottles of spirits and syrups like golden syrup, molasses, honey, and vanilla essence into the mixture.

The student chefs of the Department of Hotel Management made 10-foot stands holding 15 different varieties of dry fruits and raisins decorated with the logo AGC-HMCT.

The ceremony was graced by Director Finance Madam Ragini Sharma Ji along with Dr. Rajneesh Arora- Managing Director, Deans and Heads of Various departments along with the faculty members of AGC.

Madam Ragini Sharma, Director Finance AGC said, “I am very happy to see student’s participation in the cake-mixing event. It is such a lovely traditional ceremony where you do not just make preparations for the upcoming festival, but also get the opportunity to share the joy of welcoming the Christmas and New year festive spirit.”

Amid the event Dr. Arora said, “Cake Mixing is an age old tradition the world over and we were very excited to be hosting this unique Cake Mixing Ceremony in AGC as we prepare for a festive season filled with cheer !!"

Advocate Amit Sharma- Chairman AGC praised the event and said, “This culture of cake mixing has been one of the prominent things in India now and I get to see many youngsters are part of it. Like every year, students from our college are very enthusiastic to participate in the cake-mixing ceremony. We will be conducting more of such events for a better engagement amongst our students.”

Principal Dr. V. K. Banga said that the festival celebrations were encouraged to bring togetherness, passion for creativity, team building spirit, learning and honing hospitality traits.
In the end, all guests shared their experience held in the ceremony and also congratulated the Department of Hotel management for organizing such a great and a wonderful event.

The ceremony of cake mixing was celebrated with a lot of joy and happiness with students from the college thronging their way to participate in the tradition.