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August 25, 2016
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Cotton and Crumbs wedding cake design
Have you any idea everything you can find to know about wedding cakes? The greater prepared you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Flavor the Cake
- While you start setting up visits, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are asked into the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a great opportunity to meet bakers and understand the range of their abilities fully.
Select a Style
- Cope with the cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception interior 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 appropriate for the style of the venue, the season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want bright colored accents (such as sugar flowers or icing ribbons), give your baker cloth swatches. The wedding cake should be part of the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 guests; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. In case the reception is at a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between your tiers. (A "stacked" wedding cake is one with its layers stacked directly atop one another, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake is listed by the cut -- the price varies often, but generally amounts from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is an extremely basic and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (based on intricate accessories or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the price tag. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded patterns, vivid colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a small cake that's adorned to efficiency but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same flavour to actually nourish the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less costly) effect. If you will have a dessert desk (or another great) as well as the cake, consider a cake size for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the payment will reduce too.
Get the known facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the main question. Buttercream is much more delightful often. But if you love the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant around we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and adding a layer of fondant over the entire confection then.
Consider the elements
- If you are having an outdoor wedding in a hot weather, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer season icing options; You might want to go for a fondant-covered cake -- it doesn't even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, newspapers (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These public people spend time correcting the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a cake after it has been sitting for a while. And when what they do fails, it could be set by them with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of fabricating 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
- With regards to adornment, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh fruits or flowers that, in some instances, can be employed by your florist for a minor fee. Around the high end are delicate gum paste or glucose paste blooms, which are constructed by hand, one petal at the right 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 price!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your cake with fresh bouquets, find out if the cake developer will work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. When the florist is jogging the show, will she have time for you to adorn the wedding cake? Be wary of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The attractiveness of the groom's wedding cake, a Southern custom traditionally, is on the rise. The bride's wedding cake -- the one lower by the few at the reception -- is typically consumed as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays constructed to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to guests as a take-home memento or trim and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini wedding cake (where each guest gets his / her own) is a great idea -- theoretically however, not always in practice. Not only does each wedding cake require its adornment (often as elaborate, if not more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own package. Unfortunately, containers 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 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 undoubtedly, they taste in the same way great too).
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