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September 12, 2016
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Do you know everything there exists to know about wedding cakes? The more enlightened you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We've got you covered with this top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- Since you start establishing sessions, 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 a great opportunity to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Deal with the wedding cake after all decisions about dress reception and style decor have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the framework and design of your wedding wedding cake. Select a cake that's compatible with the style of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want multi-colored accents (such as sugars blooms or icing ribbons), give your baker cloth swatches. The cake should participate the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 friends; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. When the reception is at a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between the tiers. (A "stacked" wedding cake is one using its layers stacked directly atop one another, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake often is charged by the slice -- the price varies, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is an extremely general and loose estimate). The more complicated the wedding cake (predicated on intricate adornments or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the price tag. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded forms, vivid colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll purchase the cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a tiny cake that's decorated to perfection but can only feed a few plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually nourish the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have a dessert table (or another special) as well as the cake, look at a cake size for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the fee will shrink too.
Get the Facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the primary 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 complete confection.
Consider the elements
- If you're having an outdoor wedding in a hot environment, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summertime icing options; You might like to go for a fondant-covered wedding cake -- it doesn't even need to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, publications (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These people spend hours repairing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a wedding cake after it's been sitting for a while. If what they do doesn't work, they can correct it with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of fabricating 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 exactly what you see on the net
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the facts
- When it comes to decor, adornment costs have huge variations. The most inexpensive option is fruits or plants that, occasionally, can be employed from your florist for a minor fee. Within the top quality are delicate gum paste or glucose paste bouquets, which are made 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 improve the rate. (For the record, we think it's worthwhile the price!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your wedding cake with fresh blossoms, find out if the wedding cake artist will continue to work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. In case the florist is working the show, will she have period to adorn the wedding cake? Be wary of intricate floral accents if your reception space decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The attractiveness of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's wedding cake -- the main one slice by the few at the reception -- is typically eaten as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolate) and nowadays constructed to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to guests as a take-home memento or lower and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his or her own) is a great idea -- in theory but not always in practice. Not only does indeed each wedding cake require its own decoration (often as complex, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own box. Unfortunately, containers don't come in mini-cake sizes. Usually the bakery must create individual boxes in which to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many guests you'll be having, and you will see just 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 equally great too).
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