Wedding Cakes Abbots Langley

No less than four months ahead of your special day, you need to begin hunting for wedding cake makers in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, and if you are planning to hire a top notch pro, perhaps even earlier. If you have relatives or friends who have fairly recently been wed, you might as a first option try asking them if they can recommend the wedding cake makers who they used.

You might also check online for sites promoting local cake designers, you should be able to see shots of their wedding cakes on their personal websites and also on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. So that you can find a local Abbots Langley cake maker who's confident about creating your cake, you need to get in touch with at least 3 or 4 people, and check out their wedding cake portfolios.

Tasting a range of cakes is also important as you want a wedding cake that both looks amazing and tastes fantastic. Ask all of the bakers on your shortlist for a few samples to try, and have someone you can trust with you for a second opinion. If you have not as yet decided, this could also help you make up your mind what type of cake you would prefer.

There'll be a number of choices to make, such as the cake design ie 4 tier, round, three tiered, square, single tiered, two tier, scalloped, heart shaped or pillow shaped, and composition of the cake ie chiffon, fruit cake, marble cake, cheesecake, sponge cake, ganache, cupcakes, sorbet or gateau.

You will also want to pick out a flavour, so get creative choosing from white chocolate and raspberry, red velvet, carrot, apple, banana, lemon, pink champagne, chocolate, vanilla, almond and coconut. Then you can pick the filling, maybe marshmallow fluff, caramel buttercream, chocolate mousse, raspberry mousse, Belgian chocolate, pastry cream, vanilla mousse, lemon curd, dark chocolate ganache, lemon sorbet, white chocolate, chocolate banana, fresh strawberries or cookies and cream.

What Size Wedding Cake Will I Need? - One confusing element of choosing a wedding cake is the size, so before establishing this you need to speak to the cake maker, because they usually use cake charts that help them to calculate the amount of helpings can be comfortably cut from certain cake measurements. Once you have settled upon the cake style, your cake maker will be able to estimate the measurements for the tiers in accordance with your projected number of guests and how many helpings you are going to hand out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Selecting a wedding cake topper should not be simply an afterthought, as what you end up choosing is going to be crowning glory of your wedding cake in Abbots Langley. Pick from personalized cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, bell and bow wedding cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, silver ring wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, word wedding cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, floral cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers and pearl bead wedding cake toppers.

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