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September 20, 2016
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Cotton and Crumbs wedding cake design
Do you know everything there is to know about wedding cakes? The more educated you are, the better the decisions you can make. We've got you covered with our top tips.
Flavor the Cake
- As you start setting up consultations, find out when each baker's next tasting is planned. At tastings, clients are invited into the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a great chance to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception design have been made. These elements can provide as a blueprint for the structure and design of your wedding wedding cake. Choose a cake that's compatible with the style of the venue, the season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like multi-colored accents (such as sugar blossoms or icing ribbons), give your baker fabric swatches. The wedding cake should participate the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will serve 50 to 100 guests; you'll 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" cake is one with its layers stacked immediately atop one another, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake is costed by the cut -- the price varies often, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely standard and loose estimate). The more difficult the wedding cake (based on intricate decorations or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the high cost. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you would like elaborate molded designs, vivid colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a little cake that's adorned to efficiency but can only just feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually nourish the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade sugar flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have dessert desk (or another great) in addition to the cake, consider a cake size for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the fee will reduce too.
Find the known facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the main question. Buttercream is much more delightful often. But if you value the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant approximately we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and adding a layer of fondant over the entire confection then.
Consider the elements
- If you're having a patio wedding in a hot local climate, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer time icing options; You might like to go for a fondant-covered wedding cake -- it doesn't even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Keep in mind, newspapers (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These people spend hours fixing the perspiration, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a wedding cake after it's been sitting for some time. And if what they do doesn't work, it could be fixed by them with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of creating 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 precisely what you see on the net
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the facts
- When it comes to decoration, adornment costs have huge variations. The cheapest option is fresh fruits or blooms that, occasionally, can be applied from your florist for a minimal fee. Within the high end are sensitive gum paste or sweets paste blossoms, which are built 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 well worth the cost!)
Encourage Wedding cake Collaboration
- If you want to garnish your cake with fresh blossoms, find out if the cake artist will work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. If the florist is operating the show, will she have period to adorn the wedding cake? Be skeptical of complex floral accents if your reception space interior decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The reputation of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's cake -- the main one slash by the few at the reception -- is typically ingested as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays constructed to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to guests as a take-home memento or trim and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini wedding cake (where each guest gets his or her own) is a great idea -- theoretically but not always used. Not only will each wedding cake require its decoration (often as elaborate, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own container. Unfortunately, boxes don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must create individual boxes where to transport these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you'll 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 just as great too).
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