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September 14, 2016
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Do you know everything there is to learn about wedding cakes? The greater educated you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We have you covered with this top tips.
Flavour the Cake
- While you start establishing meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is scheduled. 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.
Decide on a Style
- Deal with the cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception decoration 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 season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like vibrant accents (such as sweets flowers 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 will provide 50 to 100 friends; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. In case 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 immediately atop each other, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake often is listed by the cut -- the cost varies, but generally varies from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is an extremely standard and loose estimation). The more complicated the wedding cake (predicated 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 shapes, lively colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a tiny cake that's adorned to excellence but can only just feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually feed the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less costly) effect. If you'll have a dessert stand (or another special) in addition to the cake, look at a cake size for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the cost 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 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 whole confection then.
Consider the Weather
- If you are having a patio wedding in a hot local climate, stay away from whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summertime icing options; You might want to get a fondant-covered wedding cake -- it doesn't even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, journals (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These folks spend time fixing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a cake after it's been sitting for some time. And when what they do fails, it can be fixed by them 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 just what you see in print
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the Details
- With regards to adornment, adornment costs have huge variations. The cheapest option is fruits or bouquets that, in some instances, can be applied because of your florist for a minor fee. For the high end are delicate gum paste or sweets paste blossoms, which are made 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 improve the rate. (For the record, we think it's worthwhile the price!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your wedding cake with fresh flowers, find out if the wedding cake custom made will continue to work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. In the event the florist is running the show, will she have time for you to adorn the wedding cake? Be wary of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The level of popularity of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's cake -- the main one lower by the couple at the reception -- is typically consumed as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays crafted to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to friends as a take-home memento or minimize and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his or her own) is a great idea -- theoretically but not always in practice. Not only does each cake require its own adornment (often as complex, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own pack. Unfortunately, containers don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must build individual boxes in which to move these cakes. Multiply by however many guests you will be having, and you'll see what a costly, time-consuming feat this happens to be. That said, if you can swing it, they look amazing being passed around by waiters on sleek silver trays (and undoubtedly, they taste as great too).
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