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June 17, 2016
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All Things Sugar wedding cake design
Do you know everything there is to know about wedding cakes? A lot more informed you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Style the Cake
- As you may start establishing meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is scheduled. At tastings, clients are invited in to the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a great possibility to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception interior decoration have been made. These elements can provide as a blueprint for the structure and design of your wedding wedding cake. Choose 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 brilliant accents (such as sugars bouquets or icing ribbons), give your baker textile swatches. The cake should be part of the wedding, not really a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 guests; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or even more. When the reception is 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 one another, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake often is priced by the cut -- the price varies, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely general and loose estimate). The more difficult the wedding cake (based on intricate designs or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the high cost. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you need elaborate molded forms, radiant colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll purchase the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a little cake that's furnished to perfection but can only just feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same flavor to actually nourish the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you will have a dessert table (or another nice) as well as the cake, look at a cake size for half your friends. Servings shall be smaller, but the cost will shrink too.
Get the known facts on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the key question. Buttercream is much more delightful 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 adding a layer of fondant over the whole confection then.
Consider the elements
- If you're having an outdoor wedding in a hot environment, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about warmer summer months icing options; You might want to go for a fondant-covered wedding cake -- it doesn't even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, publications (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These interpersonal people spend hours mending the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a cake after it's been sitting for some time. And if what they do fails, it can be fixed 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 on the net
Take Note: It's All in the Details
- With regards to adornment, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fruits or flowers that, in some instances, can be applied because of your florist for a minimal fee. In the high end are delicate gum sugar or paste paste plants, which are created by hand, one petal at a right 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 well worth the cost!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your wedding cake with fresh bouquets, find out if the wedding cake custom made will continue to work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. When the show is being run by the florist, will she have time to adorn the cake? Be skeptical of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space interior decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The attractiveness of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's wedding cake -- the main one cut by the couple at the reception -- is typically ingested as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays built to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or lower and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini cake (where each visitor gets his or her own) is a superb idea -- theoretically however, not always used. Not only does indeed each cake require its adornment (often as intricate, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will demand its own package. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must construct individual boxes in which to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you'll be having, and you will see what a costly, time-consuming feat this is. That said, when you can swing it, they look amazing being passed around by waiters on sleek silver trays (and undoubtedly, they taste just like great too).
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