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August 16, 2016
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The Sugared Saffron wedding cake design
Have you any idea everything there is certainly to know about wedding cakes? The greater prepared you are, the better the decisions you can make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- As you start establishing consultations, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are asked into the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an excellent possibility to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the cake after all decisions about dress reception and style interior decoration have been made. These elements can provide as a blueprint for the structure and design of your 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 bright colored accents (such as sweets blossoms 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 shall serve 50 to 100 guests; 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" wedding cake is one with its layers stacked straight atop one another, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake often is listed by the slice -- the price varies, but generally amounts from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is an extremely basic and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (predicated on intricate decorations or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the high cost. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded figures, exciting colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase the cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a small cake that's decorated to efficiency but can only just feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually feed the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade glucose flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have a dessert table (or another lovely) as well as the cake, look at a cake sized for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the payment will shrink too.
Obtain the known facts on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the primary question. Buttercream is often much more delicious. But if you value the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant just as much as we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the whole confection.
Consider the Weather
- If you are having a patio 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 get a fondant-covered cake -- it doesn't even need to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, mags (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These people spend hours repairing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a cake after it's been sitting for a while. If what they do fails, they can fix it with Photoshop. There is also 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 be able to replicate exactly what you see in print
Take Note: It's All in the facts
- When it comes to decoration, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh flowers or fruits that, in some instances, can be applied because of your florist for a minimal fee. On the high end are delicate gum paste or sugars paste blossoms, which are produced 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 improve the rate. (For the record, we think it's worth the cost!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your cake with fresh bouquets, find out if the cake designer shall use your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. When the florist is working the show, will she have time to adorn the cake? Be skeptical of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The popularity of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's wedding cake -- the main one chop by the couple at the reception -- is traditionally ingested as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays made to show off of the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to guests as a take-home memento or cut and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini cake (where each guest gets his / her own) is a superb idea -- theoretically but not always in practice. Not only will 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 package. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must construct individual boxes where to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you'll be having, and you'll see just 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 as great too).
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