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September 18, 2016
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Have you any idea everything there is to know about wedding cakes? The greater prepared you are, the better the decisions you can make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Flavour the Cake
- While you start establishing appointments, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are asked in to the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a fantastic chance to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the cake after all decisions about dress reception and style interior decoration have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the design and structure of your wedding cake. Choose a cake that's appropriate for the design of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want colorful accents (such as sweets bouquets or icing ribbons), give your baker textile swatches. The cake should be part of the wedding, not really a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers shall provide 50 to 100 friends; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. If the reception is in 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 straight atop one another, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is costed by the cut -- the cost varies often, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is a very basic and loose estimate). The more difficult 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 need elaborate molded patterns, lively colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a little cake that's furnished to excellence but can only just feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same flavour to actually give food to the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sugars flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less costly) effect. If you will have a dessert desk (or another special) in addition to the cake, look at a cake measured for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the fee will shrink too.
Get the known facts 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 around we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the complete confection.
Consider the Weather
- If you're having an outdoor wedding in a hot environment, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer icing options; You might like to get 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 carefully the cakes looking perfect. These folks spend time correcting the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a cake after it has been sitting for some time. In case what they do fails, it could be fixed by them with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of creating cakes from items 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 cake designer to have the ability to replicate just what you see on the net
Take Note: It's All in the Details
- With regards to adornment, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh fruits or blooms that, in some instances, can be applied from your florist for a minimal fee. Around the top quality are fragile gum paste or sweets paste bouquets, which are produced by hand, one petal at the 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 want to garnish your wedding cake with fresh plants, find out if the wedding cake developer shall work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. If the florist is operating the show, will she have a chance to adorn the cake? Be wary of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The recognition of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's wedding cake -- the one trim by the few at the reception -- is customarily eaten as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays built to show off of the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or cut and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini cake (where each guest gets his / her own) is a great idea -- in theory but not always used. Not only does each cake require its design (often as intricate, if not 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 create individual boxes where to move these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will be having, and you will see just what a costly, time-consuming feat this happens to be. That said, when you can swing it, they look amazing being passed around by waiters on sleek silver trays (and undoubtedly, they taste just as great too).
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