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September 25, 2016
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Do you know everything there is certainly to know about wedding cakes? The greater knowledgeable you are, the better the decisions you can make. We have you covered with this top tips.
Style the Cake
- Since you start setting up visits, find out when each baker's next tasting is scheduled. At tastings, clients are invited in to the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a fantastic possibility to meet bakers and understand the range of their capabilities fully.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake in the end decisions about dress reception and style design have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the design and structure 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'd like colorful accents (such as glucose flowers 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 provide 50 to 100 friends; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. In the event 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 directly atop one another, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is listed by the slice -- the cost varies often, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is a very standard and loose estimate). The more complicated the wedding cake (based on intricate decor or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the high cost. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you wish elaborate molded designs, vivid colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll purchase the cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a small cake that's decorated to excellence but can only feed a few plus several sheet cakes of the same flavor to actually feed the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have dessert desk (or another special) as well as the cake, consider a cake sized for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the cost will shrink too.
Get the reality on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the key question. Buttercream is much more scrumptious often. But if you value the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant up to we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the whole confection.
Consider the elements
- If you're having an outdoor 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
- Keep in mind, mags (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These folks spend hours repairing the perspiration, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a cake after it has been sitting for some time. And when what they do doesn't work, it can be fixed by them with Photoshop. They also have 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 Note: It's All in the facts
- When it comes to adornment, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fresh plants or fruits that, occasionally, can be applied from your florist for a minor fee. In the high end are delicate gum sugars or paste paste plants, which are produced by hand, one petal at a time. But here's underneath line: All add-ons -- including marzipan fruits, chocolate-molded flowers, and lace points -- will improve the rate. (For the record, we think it's worth the price!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your cake with fresh blossoms, find out if the cake artist shall work with your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. When the florist is working the show, will she have the perfect time to adorn the cake? Be skeptical of complex floral accents if your reception space interior decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The level of popularity of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the one cut by the few at the reception -- is typically consumed as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays constructed to show off of 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 concur that the thought of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his or her own) is a superb idea -- theoretically however, not always in practice. Not only will each cake require its own design (often as elaborate, if not more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own container. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Usually the bakery must create individual boxes in which to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will be having, and you will see what a costly, time-consuming feat this is. That said, when 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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