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Do you know everything you can find to know about wedding cakes? The greater educated you are, the better the decisions you can make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Taste the Cake
- As you start setting up meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are invited into the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a great chance to meet bakers and understand the range of their capabilities fully.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the cake after all decisions about dress reception and style decoration have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the look and structure of your wedding cake. Select a cake that's appropriate for the design of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like colourful accents (such as glucose blossoms or icing ribbons), give your baker fabric swatches. The wedding cake should participate the wedding, not really a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 friends; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. If the reception is a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between your tiers. (A "stacked" cake is one using its layers stacked directly atop each other, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is priced by the cut -- the cost varies often, but generally varies from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is a very standard and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (predicated on intricate decorations or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the price tag. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded forms, radiant colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a little cake that's furnished to efficiency but can only just feed a few plus several sheet cakes of the same flavor to actually nourish the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you will have a dessert desk (or another nice) in addition to the cake, consider a cake measured for half your friends. Servings will be smaller, but the cost will shrink too.
Get the Facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the main question. Buttercream is often much more delicious. But if you love the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant approximately we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the entire confection.
Consider the elements
- If you're having an outdoor wedding in a hot local climate, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer icing options; You might like to get a fondant-covered cake -- it generally does not even need to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, periodicals (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These folks spend time fixing the perspiration, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a wedding cake after it's been sitting for some time. And when what they do doesn't work, it could be set by them with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of fabricating cakes from stuff that isn't edible -- most cakes in magazines are iced bits of Styrofoam, which certainly doesn't taste very good. So don't expect your wedding cake designer to have the ability to replicate just what you see in print
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the Details
- When it comes to adornment, adornment costs have huge variations. The cheapest option is fresh flowers or fruits that, occasionally, can be employed by your florist for a minimal fee. For the high end are sensitive gum paste or glucose paste bouquets, which are produced by hand, one petal at the same time. But here's underneath line: All add-ons -- including marzipan fruits, chocolate-molded flowers, and lace points -- will raise the rate. (For the record, we think it's worthwhile the cost!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your cake with fresh flowers, find out if the cake developer will work with your florist, or if you are accountable for the blooms. In case the florist is operating the show, will she have time to adorn the wedding cake? Be wary of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The attractiveness of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's wedding cake -- the main one slice by the couple at the reception -- is traditionally consumed as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolate) and nowadays constructed to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to friends as a take-home memento or slice and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers concur that the idea of a mini cake (where each guest gets his / her own) is a great idea -- in theory however, not always used. Not only will each wedding cake require its own beautification (often as intricate, if not more, than one that's four times its size), each will demand its own field. Unfortunately, containers don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must construct individual boxes in which to move these cakes. Multiply by however many guests you'll be having, and you will see just what a costly, time-consuming feat this is. That said, if you can swing it, they look amazing being passed around by waiters on sleek silver trays (and undoubtedly, they taste in the same way great too).
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