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August 26, 2016
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Do you know everything there exists to know about wedding cakes? The greater informed you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We have you covered with this top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- Because you start setting up visits, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are invited into 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.
Select a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake after all decisions about dress style and reception interior decoration have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the design and structure of your wedding cake. Select a cake that's appropriate for the style of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want colorful accents (such as glucose bouquets or icing ribbons), give your baker cloth swatches. The wedding cake should participate the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 guests; you will likely need five layers for 200 guests or even more. When 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 directly atop each other, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is charged by the slice -- the cost 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 accessories or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the price tag. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you need elaborate molded figures, radiant colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase 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 flavor to actually nourish the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less costly) effect. If you'll have dessert desk (or another special) in addition to the cake, consider a cake sized for half your guests. Servings will be smaller, but the payment will reduce 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 up to 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 climate, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer months icing options; You might like to go for a fondant-covered cake -- it generally does not even need to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Keep in mind, periodicals (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These communal people spend time correcting the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a wedding cake after it's been sitting for a while. And if what they do doesn't work, it can be fixed by them with Photoshop. They also have 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 wedding cake designer to have the ability to replicate just what you see in print
Take Note: It's All in the Details
- When it comes to design, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh blossoms or fruits that, in some instances, can be employed by your florist for a minor fee. On the high end are delicate gum sugar or paste paste blooms, which are created 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 worth the cost!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your cake with fresh bouquets, find out if the wedding cake custom made shall use your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. In case the show is being run by the florist, will she have a chance to adorn the wedding cake? Be skeptical of intricate floral accents if your reception space 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 one cut by the few at the reception -- is traditionally ingested as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays crafted to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to guests as a take-home memento or trim and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his or her own) is a great idea -- in theory but not always used. Not only does each 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 construct individual boxes where to move these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will be having, and you will 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 of course, they taste just as great too).
Bristol Wedding Cake Designer Anna Tyler. Tiered Wedding Cakes
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