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Have you any idea everything there exists to learn about wedding cakes? The greater up to date you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Style the Cake
- While you start setting up meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is scheduled. At tastings, clients are invited in to the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an excellent possibility to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Select a Style
- Deal with the wedding cake after all decisions about dress style and reception decoration have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the look and structure of your wedding cake. Choose a cake that's compatible with the design of the venue, the 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 cake should be part of the wedding, not 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. In the event 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 one another, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is costed by the cut -- the price varies often, but generally amounts from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is a very basic and loose estimate). The more complicated the cake (based on intricate decorations or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the high cost. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded forms, radiant colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a small cake that's adorned to perfection but can only just feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually nourish the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have dessert desk (or another special) in addition to the cake, look at a cake sized for half your guests. Servings will be smaller, but the payment will reduce too.
Obtain the known facts on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the key question. Buttercream is much more delicious often. But if you love the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant just as much as we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and adding a layer of fondant over the complete confection then.
Consider the Weather
- If you're having a patio wedding in a hot weather, stay away from whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer season icing options; You might like to get a fondant-covered cake -- it generally does not even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, mags (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These folks spend hours mending the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a cake after it has been sitting for some time. If what they do doesn't work, it could be fixed by them with Photoshop. They also have the luxury of fabricating cakes from items that isn't edible -- most cakes in magazines are iced pieces of Styrofoam, which certainly doesn't taste very good. So don't expect your cake designer to have the ability to replicate just what you see on the net
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the Details
- When it comes to adornment, adornment costs run the gamut. The cheapest option is fruits or blooms that, occasionally, can be applied because of your florist for a minor fee. In the high end are delicate gum paste or sugars paste blooms, which are constructed by hand, one petal at a right time. But here's the bottom 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 price!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your wedding cake with fresh blooms, find out if the cake custom will work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. In case the florist is working the show, will she have period to adorn the wedding cake? Be skeptical of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space interior decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The popularity of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's wedding cake -- the one cut by the few at the reception -- is traditionally ingested as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays crafted to show from 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 concur that the idea of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his / her own) is a superb idea -- in theory however, not always used. Not only does indeed each wedding cake require its adornment (often as elaborate, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own box. Unfortunately, boxes don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must create individual boxes where to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will be having, and you'll see just what a costly, time-consuming feat this happens to be. That said, when 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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