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Articles
Miscellaneous
Choosing a wedding cake
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.
(Click here
to visit their site)
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