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Have you any idea everything there is to know about wedding cakes? A lot more prepared you are, the better the decisions you can make. We've got you covered with this top tips.
Taste the Cake
- While you start establishing consultations, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are asked into the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an excellent possibility to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Select a Style
- Deal with the cake in the end decisions about dress reception and style decor have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the look and structure of your wedding cake. Select a cake that's appropriate for the design of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like multi-colored accents (such as glucose flowers or icing ribbons), give your baker fabric swatches. The cake should be part of the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 friends; you will likely need five layers for 200 guests or even more. In the event the reception is within 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 immediately atop each other, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake is priced by the slice -- the cost varies often, but generally ranges from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is a very basic and loose estimate). The more difficult the cake (based on intricate accessories or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the price tag. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you want elaborate molded shapes, vivid colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a tiny cake that's furnished to efficiency but can only feed a few plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually nourish the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sugars flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less costly) effect. If you'll have a dessert table (or another nice) in addition to the cake, look at a cake size for half your guests. Servings will be smaller, but the fee will reduce too.
Get the known facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the primary question. Buttercream is much more delicious often. But if you love the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant as much as we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and adding a layer of fondant over the entire confection then.
Consider the Weather
- If you're having an outdoor wedding in a hot environment, stay away from whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer icing options; You might want to get a fondant-covered cake -- it generally does not even need to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Keep in mind, periodicals (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These people spend hours fixing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a cake after it has been sitting for a while. And if 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 bits 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 Note: It's All in the facts
- With regards to design, adornment costs have huge variations. The cheapest option is fruits or blossoms that, occasionally, can be employed because of your florist for a minor fee. In the high end are delicate gum sugars or paste paste plants, which are created 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 raise the rate. (For the record, we think it's well worth the cost!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your wedding cake with fresh blossoms, find out if the cake designer shall use your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. When the florist is operating the show, will she have period to adorn the wedding cake? Be skeptical of intricate floral accents if your reception space decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The acceptance of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's cake -- the one cut by the couple 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 from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or slice and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the thought of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his / her own) is a superb idea -- in theory however, not always used. Not only will each cake require its decoration (often as intricate, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own container. Unfortunately, bins don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must create individual boxes in which to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many guests you will 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 equally great too).
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