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September 02, 2016
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Cotton and Crumbs wedding cake design
Have you any idea everything there is to learn about wedding cakes? The more knowledgeable you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We've got you covered with this top tips.
Style the Cake
- Since you start establishing visits, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are asked in to the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a great opportunity to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake after all decisions about dress style and reception decor have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the composition and design of your wedding cake. Choose a cake that's compatible with the style of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like bright colored accents (such as sugar bouquets 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 shall provide 50 to 100 guests; you will 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" cake is one using its layers stacked straight atop one another, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake often is listed by the cut -- the price varies, but generally runs 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 high cost. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you would like elaborate molded figures, radiant colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a small cake that's decorated to excellence but can only just feed a few plus several sheet cakes of the same flavor to actually supply the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade glucose flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less costly) effect. If you will have a dessert table (or another lovely) as well as the cake, consider a cake sized for half your guests. Servings will be smaller, but the fee will shrink too.
Have the known facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the main question. Buttercream is often much more delicious. But if you love 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're having a patio wedding in a hot weather, stay away from 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 have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Keep in mind, periodicals (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These social people spend hours repairing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a cake after it's been sitting for some time. And if what they do fails, they can correct it with Photoshop. They also have the luxury of fabricating cakes from stuff 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 be able to replicate precisely what you see on the net
Take Note: It's All in the Details
- With regards to design, adornment costs run the gamut. The most inexpensive option is fresh plants or fruits that, occasionally, can be employed from your florist for a minor fee. Within the high end are sensitive gum paste or sugars paste bouquets, 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 raise the rate. (For the record, we think it's worthy of the price!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your wedding cake with fresh plants, find out if the wedding cake custom will work with your florist, or if you are accountable for the blooms. In the event the show has been run by the florist, will she have time to adorn the wedding cake? Be wary of complex floral accents if your reception space interior decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The popularity of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's wedding cake -- the one lower by the couple at the reception -- is customarily eaten as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays crafted to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or lower and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini cake (where each visitor gets his or her own) is a superb idea -- theoretically but not always used. Not only does indeed each cake require its decoration (often as complex, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will demand its own package. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must build individual boxes where to move these cakes. Multiply by however many guests you will be having, and you'll see 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 in the same way great too).
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