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November 04, 2016
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Do you know everything there is to know about wedding cakes? A lot more prepared you are, the better the decisions you will make. We've got you covered with this top tips.
Flavour the Cake
- When you start establishing appointments, find out when each baker's next tasting is slated. At tastings, clients are invited into the bakery to test exemplary cakes, ask questions, and review portfolios. This is a fantastic chance to meet bakers and fully understand the range of their abilities.
Select a Style
- Cope with the wedding cake in the end decisions about dress style and reception decoration have been made. These elements can serve as a blueprint for the look and structure of your wedding cake. Choose a cake that's appropriate for the design of the venue, the growing season, your gown, the flower arrangements, or the menu. If you want multi-colored accents (such as glucose plants or icing ribbons), give your baker cloth 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" wedding cake is one using its layers stacked immediately atop one another, without separators.)
Price It Out
- Wedding cake is costed by the cut -- the cost varies often, but generally varies from $1.50 to $15 per slice (though this is an extremely standard and loose estimation). The more difficult the cake (predicated on intricate adornments or hard-to-find fillings), the higher the price tag. Fondant icing is more expensive than buttercream, and if you wish elaborate molded figures, vivid colors, or handmade sugar-flower detailing, you'll pay for the wedding cake designer's labor.
Find Ways to Save
- Order a tiny cake that's adorned to efficiency but can only feed a handful plus several sheet cakes of the same taste to actually feed the guests. Stay away from tiers, handmade glucose flowers, and specially molded shapes. Garnish with seasonal flowers and fruit for an elegant (but less costly) effect. If you'll have a dessert desk (or another special) in addition to the cake, consider a cake size for half your guests. Servings will be smaller, but the payment will shrink too.
Get the Facts on Frosting
- Buttercream or fondant? That's the main question. Buttercream is often much more delicious. But if you love the smooth, almost surreal-like look of fondant up to we do, consider frosting the cake in buttercream first and then adding a layer of fondant over the whole confection.
Consider the elements
- If you're having an outdoor wedding in a hot local climate, avoid whipped cream, meringue, and buttercream: They melt. Ask your baker about summer season icing options; You might like to go for a fondant-covered cake -- it doesn't even have to be refrigerated.
Mind Your Magazines
- Remember, magazines (like ours) have food stylists, editors, and assistants working nonstop to keep carefully the cakes looking perfect. These social people spend time correcting the sweating, dripping, leaning, or sagging that can occur to a wedding cake after it has been sitting for a while. And if what they do fails, it could be fixed by them with Photoshop. They also have the luxury of fabricating 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 have the ability to replicate precisely what you see in print
Take Note: It's All in the Details
- When it comes to beautification, adornment costs run the gamut. The most inexpensive option is fresh fruits or blooms that, occasionally, can be applied by your florist for a minimal fee. Over the high end are sensitive gum paste or sugar paste blossoms, which are designed by hand, one petal at a 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 worthwhile the price!)
Encourage Cake Collaboration
- If you wish to garnish your wedding cake with fresh plants, find out if the wedding cake custom made will work with your florist, or if you are in charge of the blooms. If the florist is operating the show, will she have period to adorn the wedding cake? Be skeptical of sophisticated floral accents if your reception space decor is labor-intensive.
Get Him Involved!
- The attractiveness of the groom's wedding cake, traditionally a Southern custom, is on the rise. The bride's wedding cake -- the one trim by the couple at the reception -- is usually eaten as dessert. The groom's cake is usually darker and richer (often delicious chocolate) and nowadays built to show off of the groom's passions and obsessions. Give pieces to guests as a take-home memento or minimize and serve both for dessert.
Go Mini?
- Many bakers concur that the idea of a mini wedding cake (where each visitor gets his / her own) is a great idea -- in theory but not always in practice. Not only does indeed each cake require its own 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. Usually the bakery must build 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 equally as great too).
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