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Do you know everything there is to learn about wedding cakes? A lot more prepared you are, the better the decisions you can make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- As you start setting up sessions, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are asked in to 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 cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception decoration have been made. These elements can provide as a blueprint for the framework and design of your wedding cake. Select a cake that's appropriate for the design of the venue, the season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like bright colored accents (such as glucose blossoms or icing ribbons), give your baker cloth swatches. The wedding cake should participate the wedding, not really a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will provide 50 to 100 friends; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. When the reception is in 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 directly atop each other, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake often is priced by the slice -- the price varies, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is a very standard and loose estimate). The more difficult the cake (predicated on intricate adornments or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the high cost. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you need elaborate molded patterns, lively colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a tiny cake that's furnished to perfection but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually give food to the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you will have a dessert stand (or another nice) in addition to the cake, look at a cake measured for half your friends. Servings will be smaller, but the fee will reduce too.
Get the known facts on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the primary 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 environment, stay away from whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summertime icing options; You might like to go for a fondant-covered wedding 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's been sitting for some time. Of course, if what they do fails, they can correct it with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of fabricating 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 be able to replicate precisely what you see in print
Take Note: It's All in the facts
- When it comes to decoration, adornment costs run the gamut. The cheapest option is fresh blossoms or fruits that, occasionally, can be applied from your florist for a minor fee. Around the high end are sensitive gum paste or glucose paste bouquets, which are built by hand, one petal at the same 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 cake with fresh blossoms, find out if the wedding cake custom made will work with your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. If the show has been run by the florist, will she have a chance to adorn the cake? Be wary of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space design is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The popularity of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the one cut by the few at the reception -- is customarily consumed as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays constructed to show off the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to guests as a take-home memento or minimize and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini cake (where each guest gets his or her own) is a great idea -- in theory however, not always in practice. Not only does each wedding cake require its design (often as complicated, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own field. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must develop individual boxes in which 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, 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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