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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've got you covered with our top tips.
Taste the Cake
- As you start establishing sessions, find out when each baker's next tasting is scheduled. At tastings, clients are asked in to 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 in the end decisions about dress style and reception decoration have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the framework and design of your wedding wedding cake. Select a cake that's compatible with the design of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want colorful accents (such as sugar blooms or icing ribbons), give your baker fabric swatches. The wedding cake should be part of the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will provide 50 to 100 friends; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or even more. In the event the reception is within a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between the tiers. (A "stacked" wedding cake is one using its layers stacked immediately atop each other, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake often is costed by the slice -- the cost varies, but generally varies from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely general and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (based on intricate accessories or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the high cost. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you wish elaborate molded figures, lively colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll purchase the cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a small cake that's adorned to perfection but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually supply the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have dessert table (or another great) as well as the cake, look at a cake measured for half your guests. Servings will be smaller, but the payment will reduce too.
Get the Facts on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the primary question. Buttercream is often much more delicious. But if you love the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant around we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the entire confection.
Consider the Weather
- If you are 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 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 carefully the cakes looking perfect. These people spend time repairing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a cake after it's been sitting for a while. In case what they do fails, it can be fixed by them with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of creating 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 exactly what you see on the net
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the facts
- With regards to decoration, adornment costs have huge variations. The cheapest option is fruits or blossoms that, occasionally, can be employed because of your florist for a minimal fee. For the top quality are delicate gum sugar or paste paste blooms, which are built by hand, one petal at a 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 worth the cost!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your wedding cake with fresh plants, find out if the cake custom made will work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. In the event the florist is running the show, will she have time and energy to adorn the cake? Be skeptical of complex floral accents if your reception space decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The recognition of the groom's wedding cake, a Southern custom traditionally, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the one chop by the few at the reception -- is customarily ingested as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolate) and nowadays made to show off the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or trim and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini cake (where each guest gets his or her own) is a superb idea -- theoretically but not always in practice. Not only does each wedding cake require its own beautification (often as complex, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own pack. Unfortunately, boxes don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must create individual boxes in which to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will 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 of course, they taste equally great too).
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