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September 12, 2016
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Do you know everything you can find to know about wedding cakes? The greater up to date you are, the better the decisions you can make. We've got you covered with our top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- Because you start establishing visits, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are asked into the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an outstanding possibility to meet bakers and understand the range of their talents fully.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake in the end decisions about dress reception and style decoration 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 want colourful accents (such as glucose blossoms or icing ribbons), give your baker textile swatches. The cake should be part of the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 guests; you will likely need five layers for 200 guests or more. In the event the reception is within a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between your tiers. (A "stacked" cake is one with its layers stacked immediately atop one another, with no separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake often is priced by the cut -- the cost varies, but generally ranges from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely basic and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (based 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 figures, lively colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase the cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a little cake that's embellished to efficiency but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same flavor to actually nourish the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sugars flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you will have a dessert desk (or another great) in addition to the cake, look at a cake size for half your friends. Servings will be smaller, but the charge will shrink too.
Get the reality on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the primary question. Buttercream is much more scrumptious 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 then adding a layer of fondant over the complete confection.
Consider the Weather
- If you're having a patio wedding in a hot weather, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer time 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, periodicals (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep the cakes looking perfect. These communal people spend time repairing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a wedding cake after it has been sitting for some time. In case what they do fails, they can correct it 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 be able to replicate just what you see in print
Take Note: It's All in the Details
- With regards to beautification, adornment costs run the gamut. The most inexpensive option is fresh bouquets or fruits that, occasionally, can be employed from your florist for a minimal fee. Within the top quality are sensitive gum paste or sweets paste blossoms, which are created 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 raise the rate. (For the record, we think it's worthwhile the cost!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your wedding cake with fresh blooms, find out if the wedding cake developer will work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. In the event the florist is jogging the show, will she have a chance to adorn the wedding cake? Be skeptical of elaborate floral accents if your reception space design is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The recognition of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the one cut by the couple at the reception -- is usually consumed as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays made to show off of the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to friends as a take-home memento or trim and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his / her own) is a superb idea -- theoretically but not always in practice. Not only does each cake require its adornment (often as intricate, 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 construct individual boxes where to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will 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 undoubtedly, they taste as great too).
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