Wedding Cake Tips
Wedding cake is a central element of most wedding receptions. A beautiful wedding cake can make a huge impact on the overall elegance of the reception. Unfortunately, wedding cakes can be among the most important accessories of your wedding reception.
You should have a budget for your wedding cake and stick to it. It is much better to start looking for your cake after you have set you budget. The most expensive part of a cake is the decoration. Therefore, an inexpensive cake can taste just as good as an expensive one. You don’t have to compromise taste when you opt for a lower budget wedding cake.
Many wedding cakes have different filling for each layer. The variety gives you and your guests more variety to choose from. There is no limit to the variety of different fillings available for cakes. Your cake professional should be able to offer many different flavors and textures for your cake. Fresh flowers and other exciting decorations are not at all unusual anymore.
Wedding cake price is normally charged by how many guest it will serve. If you have a wedding with 150 guests, you need a cake that will serve 150. The minimum cost per slice is about $2.00 but can go up to about $12.00 per slice and it doesn’t stop there. A standard three-tier cake will feed about 150 people. So at $2.00 per slice that’s $300.00 and at $12.00 per slice that’s $1,800.00. Now, you see how wedding cakes can get so expensive.
Don’t make a decision about who to hire before you meet at least three pastry chefs. Even if you really like the first or second professional, do yourself a favor, interview at least three. See the quality of work at their business locations, and ask to see pictures. Taste the cake varieties, and take some friends with you to make it more fun.
Ask for references, and follow up. Once you have hired the person to do your wedding cake put everything in writing. A written contract is an absolute must. It protects you and the vendor. Make sure you include all the details about date and time of delivery, flavors, serving size, etc.
George Meszaros
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can anybody give me any wedding cake tips?
my cousin is getting married in july and asked me to do her cake its a small of only 30 people so was just going to do 2 or 3 layor cake so anybody have any tips for me?
there are a number of how to videos on you tube that are very good. I find it helps to actually watch someone doing something
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Your cousin and I trust in your ability. My suggestion is to make a chocolate sheet cake(9×11) for the bottom, a 9" round banana cake for the middle, and an 8" round white cake for the top. Use the appropriate toppings. Most everyone loves cake especially when it is free. Yours will be perfect.;
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I think your best bet is to do your research:
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/how-to-make-a-wedding-cake.htm
http://www.pastrywiz.com/wedding/wedding5.htm
Good Luck!
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Id suggest you make a practice cake, after watching some of the previously mentioned videos on Utube, there really are some cool decorating and baking videos there!! Just make white cake and practice how to stack, and frost. You can practice making roses too, or simply use beaded lace to put on the bottom edge of each cake, and fresh flowers, for a really elegant cake.
google images has millions of cakes to look at use
wedding cake
wedding rose cake
wedding flower cake
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Here are some links to simple cakes, mind you I dont know how to do fondant, Im pointing out the fact that the cakes are easy to decorate and elegant. The white on in the top row on the right,
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jennys-cakes.com/images/floral-art-wedding-cakes/wedding-cake-lilac-lilies.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.planmywedding.org/occasions/wedding-cake.htm&usg=__I0uq59oWP_M0YC5ohhezM6BEca4=&h=600&w=450&sz=40&hl=en&start=1&sig2=2Slz2fddbqDceEuWWygVtg&tbnid=4BBB8xFjXubvZM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwedding%2Bcake%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den&ei=XEIzSvbNCo7SNOej0ZEK
Heres another. I have seen ones done with a thinner ribbon that had pearls, then fresh flowers, still looking but heres one thats easy too
http://www.wildflowersbylori.com/White%20and%20sage%20Wedding%20Cake%203.jpg
Something like this is not hard, the ribbon going down one side, some flowers on top. The texture print, once you frost your test cake, try taking a piece of lace and use it as a stencil by wrapping it around the cake and gently removing it, this can work, but I wont promise anything!
http://www.piane.com/Wedding-Cake.gif
This is easy, use thin ribbon for the bottom of make the lil dollops of frosting and use flowers.
http://client.apptomix.com/websites/FoodService/Melitta_Beuschel_89427/images/26023Wedding-Cake-1.jpg