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October 10, 2016
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Have you any idea everything there may be to learn about wedding cakes? A lot more prepared you are, the better the decisions you shall make. We have you covered with our top tips.
Flavor the Cake
- Because you start establishing meetings, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are asked in to the bakery to sample exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a fantastic possibility to meet bakers and understand the range of their skills fully.
Select a Style
- Cope with the cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception 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 bright colored accents (such as sugars blooms or icing ribbons), give your baker fabric swatches. The wedding cake should be part of the wedding, not a glaring sideshow.
Size It Up
- Generally, three tiers will provide 50 to 100 guests; you'll likely need five layers for 200 guests or even more. If 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 straight atop each other, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake often is costed by the cut -- the cost varies, but generally runs from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is an extremely standard and loose estimate). The more complicated the wedding cake (based on intricate decor or hard-to-find fillings), the bigger the price tag. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you wish elaborate molded styles, exciting colors, or handmade sugar-flower describing, you'll purchase the cake designer's labor.
Find Methods to Save
- Order a tiny cake that's furnished to efficiency but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same flavor to actually feed the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade sweets flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for a stylish (but less expensive) effect. If you'll have dessert table (or another lovely) in addition to the cake, consider a cake sized for half your guests. Servings shall be smaller, but the payment will shrink too.
Get the Facts on Frosting
- Fondant or buttercream? That's the key 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 adding a layer of fondant over the complete confection then.
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 summer icing options; You might want to go for a fondant-covered wedding cake -- it doesn't even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, mags (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These folks spend time fixing the perspiration, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a cake after it has been sitting for some time. Of course, if what they do fails, they can correct it with Photoshop. They also have 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 wedding cake designer to be able to replicate precisely what you see on the net
TAKE NOTICE: It's All in the facts
- When it comes to beautification, adornment costs have huge variations. The cheapest option is fresh fruits or plants that, in some instances, can be applied because of your florist for a minimal fee. In the top quality are delicate gum paste or glucose paste blossoms, which are designed by hand, one petal at the 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 well worth the price!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your cake with fresh plants, find out if the cake developer will work with your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. In case the show has been run by the florist, will she have period to adorn the wedding cake? Be skeptical of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space decoration is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The level of popularity of the groom's cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is increasing. The bride's cake -- the main one cut by the couple at the reception -- is traditionally consumed as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often chocolate) and nowadays made to show from the groom's passions and obsessions. Give slices to friends as a take-home memento or trim and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers concur that the idea of a mini cake (where each guest gets his / her own) is a superb idea -- in theory however, not always used. Not only does indeed each wedding cake require its decoration (often as intricate, if not more, than one that's four times its size), each will require its own pack. Unfortunately, boxes don't come in mini-cake sizes. Often the bakery must build individual boxes where to move these cakes. Multiply by however many friends you'll be having, and you will see what a costly, time-consuming feat this actually is. That said, when you can swing it, they look amazing being passed around by waiters on sleek silver trays (and of course, they taste in the same way great too).
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