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September 15, 2016
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All Things Sugar wedding cake design
Do you know everything there is certainly to learn about wedding cakes? The greater educated you are, the better the decisions you can make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Flavour the Cake
- As you may start setting up visits, find out when each baker's next tasting is scheduled. At tastings, clients are invited in to the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an excellent opportunity to meet bakers and understand the range of their skills fully.
Select a Style
- Deal with the wedding cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception 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 appropriate for the style of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want colourful accents (such as sugars blooms or icing ribbons), give your baker textile swatches. The 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. If 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 using its layers stacked directly atop each other, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is listed by the cut -- the price varies often, but generally ranges from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely general and loose estimation). The more difficult 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 need elaborate molded styles, radiant colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase the cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a small cake that's adorned to perfection but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually give food to the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade glucose flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you will have a dessert table (or another lovely) as well as the cake, look at a cake size for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the charge will reduce too.
Get the reality on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the key 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 entire confection.
Consider the elements
- If you are having a patio wedding in a hot environment, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer icing options; You might want to get a fondant-covered wedding cake -- it generally does not even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Keep in mind, mags (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These folks spend time mending the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a cake after it's been sitting for a while. If what they do fails, it can be set by them with Photoshop. They also have the luxury of creating 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 cake designer to have the ability to replicate just what you see on the net
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the Details
- When it comes to decor, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh blooms or fruits that, in some instances, can be applied because of your florist for a minor fee. Around the top quality are delicate gum sweets or paste paste flowers, which are created by hand, one petal at a 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 cake creator will work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. In case the florist is operating the show, will she have period to adorn the cake? Be skeptical of intricate floral accents if your reception space decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The reputation of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the one slice by the few at the reception -- is typically ingested as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays made to show off of the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or minimize and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini wedding cake (where each guest gets his or her own) is a superb idea -- in theory but not always used. Not only will each wedding cake require its decoration (often as complex, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own container. Unfortunately, containers don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must build individual boxes in which to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you'll 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 just like great too).
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