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September 22, 2016
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Do you know everything there exists to learn about wedding cakes? The more knowledgeable you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We've got you covered with our top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- As you start establishing meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are asked in to the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet bakers and understand the range of their abilities fully.
Select a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake after all decisions about dress style and reception design 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'd like bright colored accents (such as sugar plants or icing ribbons), give your baker fabric swatches. The wedding cake should be part of the wedding, not really 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 more. If the reception is a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between the tiers. (A "stacked" cake is one with its layers stacked directly atop each other, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is charged by the cut -- the price varies often, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is a very standard and loose estimate). The more complicated the wedding cake (predicated on intricate decor or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the high cost. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you would like elaborate molded shapes, attractive colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a small cake that's embellished to excellence but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same flavour to actually nourish the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less costly) effect. If you'll have a dessert table (or another nice) as well as the cake, look at a cake sized for half your friends. Servings will be smaller, but the payment will reduce too.
Get the Facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the primary question. Buttercream is often much more delicious. But if you value the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant as much as we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the complete confection.
Consider the elements
- If you're having a patio wedding in a hot climate, stay away from whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer time 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
- Remember, periodicals (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These public people spend time fixing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a wedding cake after it has been sitting for some time. In case what they do doesn't work, it can be fixed by them with Photoshop. They also have the luxury of creating 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 on the net
Take Note: It's All in the Details
- When it comes to adornment, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh blossoms or fruits that, occasionally, can be employed because of your florist for a minimal fee. In the top quality are delicate gum paste or sweets paste blossoms, which are made 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 raise the rate. (For the record, we think it's well worth the price!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your cake with fresh blooms, find out if the cake custom made will work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. In the event the show is being run by the florist, will she have time to adorn the cake? Be wary of complex floral accents if your reception space decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The popularity of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's cake -- the one chop by the few at the reception -- is customarily eaten as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays made to show off the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to guests as a take-home memento or lower and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini cake (where each guest gets his / her own) is a superb idea -- theoretically however, not always used. Not only will each cake require its own decor (often as intricate, 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. Often the bakery must develop individual boxes where to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many guests you'll be having, and you will see what a costly, time-consuming feat this actually 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 like great too).
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