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August 21, 2016
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Have you any idea everything there may be to know about wedding cakes? The more educated you are, the better the decisions you will make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- When you start establishing meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are asked in to the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an excellent opportunity to meet bakers and understand the range of their abilities fully.
Select a Style
- Deal with the cake in the end decisions about dress reception and style interior decoration have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the framework and design of your wedding cake. Select a cake that's compatible with the design of the venue, the season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like bright colored accents (such as sugar flowers 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 provide 50 to 100 friends; you will likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. In the event the reception is within a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between your tiers. (A "stacked" wedding cake is one using its layers stacked immediately atop one another, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake often is priced by the cut -- the cost varies, but generally ranges from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely basic and loose estimation). The more difficult the wedding cake (predicated on intricate adornments or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the high cost. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded shapes, exciting colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll pay for the cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a small cake that's embellished to efficiency but can only feed a few plus several sheet cakes of the same flavor to actually supply the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have dessert desk (or another sweet) as well as the cake, consider a cake measured for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the cost will shrink too.
Find the known facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the key question. Buttercream is much more scrumptious often. But if you love 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 complete confection then.
Consider the Weather
- If you're having a patio wedding in a hot environment, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer months icing options; You might want to go for a fondant-covered wedding cake -- it generally does not even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Keep in mind, mags (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These people spend hours mending the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a wedding cake after it has been sitting for a while. And when what they do doesn't work, they can fix it with Photoshop. They also have the luxury of creating cakes from stuff 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 wedding cake designer to have the ability to replicate exactly what you see in print
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the facts
- When it comes to design, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh blooms or fruits that, occasionally, can be employed by your florist for a minimal fee. On the high end are fragile gum paste or glucose paste blooms, which are built 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 improve the rate. (For the record, we think it's worthwhile the cost!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your wedding cake with fresh blooms, find out if the cake custom will work with your florist, or if you are accountable for the blooms. If 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 decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The level of popularity of the groom's cake, a Southern custom traditionally, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the one chop by the couple at the reception -- is customarily eaten as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays built to show off the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends 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 / her own) is a great idea -- in theory but not always in practice. Not only does indeed each cake require its adornment (often as complex, if not more, than one that's four times its size), each will demand its own box. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Usually the bakery must build 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 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 as great too).
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