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June 19, 2016
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Have you any idea everything there is to learn about wedding cakes? The more enlightened you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- When you start establishing visits, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are invited in to the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an excellent possibility to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the cake in the end decisions about dress reception and style design have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the look and structure of your wedding cake. Select a cake that's compatible with the design of the venue, the season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like vibrant accents (such as sweets plants 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 provide 50 to 100 guests; you will likely need five layers for 200 guests or even more. If the reception is at a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between the tiers. (A "stacked" cake is one with its layers stacked immediately atop each other, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake often is priced by the slice -- the cost varies, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely basic and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (based on intricate decorations or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the price tag. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you wish elaborate molded shapes, radiant colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll purchase the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a tiny cake that's adorned to perfection but can only just feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually give food to the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less costly) effect. If you will have a dessert table (or another nice) as well as the cake, consider a cake sized for half your friends. Servings shall be smaller, but the cost will shrink too.
Get the reality on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the main question. Buttercream is much more delicious often. But if you value the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant as much as we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the complete confection.
Consider the Weather
- If you are having an outdoor wedding in a hot climate, stay away from whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer season icing options; You might want to get a fondant-covered cake -- it generally does not even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, newspapers (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These cultural people spend hours repairing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a wedding cake after it's been sitting for some time. And if 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 cake designer to be able to replicate precisely what you see in print
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the Details
- With regards to adornment, adornment costs run the gamut. The most inexpensive option is fresh plants or fruits that, occasionally, can be employed from your florist for a minimal fee. On the high end are sensitive gum paste or glucose paste blossoms, which are constructed 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 improve the rate. (For the record, we think it's worthwhile the price!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your cake with fresh blooms, find out if the cake custom made shall use your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. If the show is being run by the florist, will she have the perfect time to adorn the cake? Be wary of intricate floral accents if your reception space design is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The attractiveness of the groom's cake, a Southern custom traditionally, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the one slash by the few at the reception -- is typically consumed as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays made to show off the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or lower and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his / her own) is a great idea -- theoretically but not always in practice. Not only will each wedding cake require its decor (often as intricate, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own container. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must create individual boxes in which to move these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will be having, and you'll 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 just as great too).
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