Wedding Cakes Alton

Your hunt for wedding cake makers in Alton, Hampshire, ought to start at least four months prior to your wedding date, and perhaps sooner than that if you would like to use one of the really popular bakers. As your first option when looking for wedding cake makers, you could try asking for recommendations from friends or relatives who have fairly recently got married.

Another effective method is to have a look online, because several local cake designers post examples of wedding cakes they have made, and use this contemporary technology to push their cakes and services. It would be a good idea to contact at least 3 local Alton cake makers to begin with, to give you plenty of choice, get a sense of how passionate they are and check out their portfolios of wedding cakes and other cakes.

To be sure you'll also want to taste their various cakes as you expect your cake to taste good as well as look good. Therefore, take somebody with you, so that you have another opinion, and ask for some samples of cakes which they have recently made. If you've not already made up your mind regarding what type of cake you would prefer, this tasting may help you come to a decision.

The choices will be countless and as well as the kind of cake ie fruit cake, cheesecake, cupcakes, chiffon, marble cake, ganache, sponge cake, gateau or sorbet, you'll need to settle on a design ie single tiered, round, pillow shaped, three tier, 4 tiered, square, heart shaped, scalloped or two tiered.

Yet another consideration is the flavour of your cake, choose from carrot, lemon, chocolate, apple, coconut, red velvet, white chocolate and raspberry, pink champagne, vanilla, almond and banana. After that you might select a wedding cake filling, maybe you would like pastry cream, lemon curd, white chocolate, vanilla mousse, raspberry mousse, Belgian chocolate, dark chocolate ganache, marshmallow fluff, caramel buttercream, lemon sorbet, chocolate banana, fresh strawberries, chocolate mousse or mango.

Wedding Cake Sizes - One rather confusing part of choosing a wedding cake is the size, so before you decide this you need to meet with your cake maker, since they usually have detailed cake charts which help them to work out the number of slices can be cut from certain sizes of cake. The cake maker will then be in a position to determine the sizes of each tier in accordance with your choice of design and your proposed number of guests.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Picking out a wedding cake topper should not be an afterthought, because what you choose is going to end up being crowning glory of your wedding cake in Alton. Pick from acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, floral wedding cake toppers, pearl cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, ring wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers and bell wedding cake toppers.

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