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September 14, 2016
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Have you any idea everything there is to learn about wedding cakes? The greater enlightened you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We've got you covered with this top tips.
Tastes the Cake
- As you may start setting up meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is scheduled. At tastings, clients are invited into the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is an outstanding opportunity to meet bakers and understand the range of their talents fully.
Decide on a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake after all decisions about dress style and reception 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 compatible with the style of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you'd like colourful accents (such as glucose flowers or icing ribbons), give your baker textile swatches. The cake should be part of the wedding, not really 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 even more. In the event the reception is in a grand room with high ceilings, consider increasing the cake's stature with columns between the tiers. (A "stacked" cake is one using its layers stacked straight atop one another, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding wedding cake is priced by the slice -- the cost varies often, but generally varies from $1.50 to $15 per cut (though this is an extremely general and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (based on intricate accessories or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the high cost. Fondant icing is more costly than buttercream, and if you would like elaborate molded figures, vivid colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll pay for the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a little cake that's adorned to excellence but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same flavour to actually give food to the guests. Avoid tiers, handmade glucose flowers, and molded shapes specially. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have dessert table (or another sugary) as well as the cake, consider a cake size for half your friends. Servings will be smaller, but the charge will reduce too.
Find the known facts on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the primary question. Buttercream is much more delightful often. 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 whole confection.
Consider the Weather
- If you're having a patio wedding in a hot climate, stay away from whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer time icing options; You might like to go for a fondant-covered cake -- it generally does not even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, newspapers (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These public people spend hours fixing the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can happen to a cake after it's been sitting for some time. And if what they do fails, it can be fixed by them with Photoshop. There is also the luxury of creating 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 wedding cake designer to be able to replicate precisely what you see in print
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the Details
- With regards to decoration, adornment costs run the gamut. The most inexpensive option is fresh blooms or fruits that, occasionally, can be employed because of your florist for a minor fee. On the high end are fragile gum paste or glucose paste blooms, which are produced by hand, one petal at a right time. But here's underneath 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 price!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your wedding cake with fresh blossoms, find out if the cake creator shall work with your florist, or if you are responsible for the blooms. When the florist is working the show, will she have time and energy to adorn the cake? Be skeptical of elaborate floral accents if your reception space decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The level of popularity of the groom's cake, a Southern custom traditionally, is increasing. The bride's cake -- the main one slice by the couple at the reception -- is typically ingested as dessert. The groom's wedding cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolates) and nowadays built to show off of the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to guests as a take-home memento or minimize and provide both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers agree that the idea of a mini cake (where each visitor gets his or her own) is a great idea -- in theory however, not always in practice. Not only does indeed each cake require its own decor (often as complicated, or even more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own pack. Unfortunately, containers don't come in mini-cake sizes. Usually the bakery must construct individual boxes in which to move these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you will be having, and you'll see just 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 undoubtedly, they taste as great too).
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