When choosing your Wedding Cake Designer you should give at
least 6 months notice. Not only does this give time for your
fruit cakes to be matured but good cake designers do get booked
very quickly. Some take bookings a year or more in advance.
During your initial consultation your cake designer should be
able to offer you a tasting of cakes in order for you to choose
whether you want fruit, sponge, chocolate or something different
like carrot cake or a flavoured sponge.
Next you need to decide how many portions you need from your cake.
This will depend on number of guests and whether you wish to keep
your top tier [traditionally for the Christening of your first
child]
As for decoration - you should take with you any pictures you
may have found in magazines along with colour swatches of your
bridesmaids dresses if you want the colour incorporated into your
cake. If you want hand made sugar flowers on your cake ask your
florist for the names of the flowers you have chosen in your bouquet
so that your decorator can reproduce them in icing.
Your chosen decorator should be able to show you pictures of their
past work and not just pictures in magazines or books.
Also thank you letters or cards from satisfied customers are always
a good indication of the quality of past creations. You should
also discuss whether your decorator will deliver and set up your
cake for you at your reception venue.
Be very careful if a well-meaning friend or relative offers
to make your cake. A wedding cake is a lot different to making
the odd novelty cake here and there. A lot of disasters can happen
for instance when the cakes have not been cooked for long enough
or the other extreme been cooked for too long and are burnt and
dry. Or icing that hasn’t had time to set. Cakes set up without
dowels can collapse - and you don’t want to be featured on
TV’s Video Clip Disasters!
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Article published with the kind permission of
CakesUnlimited.net of Harrogate & Wetherby.
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