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June 06, 2016
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Have you any idea everything you can find to learn about wedding cakes? The more informed you are, the better the decisions you can make. We've got you covered with our top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- As you may start setting up appointments, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are invited in to the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an excellent chance to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Deal with the wedding cake after all decisions about dress style and reception decor have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the design and structure of your wedding cake. Choose a cake that's compatible with the style of the venue, the season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want multi-colored accents (such as sugars bouquets or icing ribbons), give your baker textile swatches. The cake should be part of the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers shall serve 50 to 100 guests; you will likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. When the reception is a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between the tiers. (A "stacked" wedding cake is one with its layers stacked directly atop each other, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake often is listed by the cut -- the price varies, but generally varies from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is a very standard and loose estimation). The more complicated the wedding cake (based on intricate decorations or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the price tag. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you need elaborate molded figures, lively colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll pay for the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Ways 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 flavor to actually nourish the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less costly) effect. If you'll have dessert desk (or another nice) as well as the cake, consider a cake sized for half your guests. Servings will be smaller, but the fee will reduce too.
Get the known facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the primary question. Buttercream is much more delicious often. But if you value the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant up to we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and adding a layer of fondant over the whole confection then.
Consider the Weather
- If you're having an outdoor wedding in a hot environment, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer time icing options; You might like to go for 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 communal people spend hours repairing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a wedding cake after it has 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 creating cakes from items 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 exactly what you see in print
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the Details
- When it comes to beautification, adornment costs run the gamut. The most inexpensive option is fresh fruits or blooms that, in some instances, can be employed from your florist for a minor fee. For the top quality are delicate gum sugars or paste paste flowers, which are designed 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 well worth the cost!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your cake with fresh plants, find out if the wedding cake custom made shall work with your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. In the event the show has been run by the florist, will she have time to adorn the cake? Be skeptical of intricate floral accents if your reception space decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The recognition of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's wedding cake -- the one chop by the couple at the reception -- is traditionally ingested as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolate) and nowadays constructed to show off the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to guests as a take-home memento or minimize 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 superb idea -- in theory but not always in practice. Not only does indeed each wedding cake require its own design (often as elaborate, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will demand its own pack. Unfortunately, containers don't come in mini-cake sizes. Usually the bakery must develop individual boxes where to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many guests you'll be having, and you'll see 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 of course, they taste equally great too).
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