Wedding Cakes Barnstaple

Your search for wedding cake makers in Barnstaple, Devon, ought to begin at least 4-6 months ahead of your planned wedding date, and perhaps sooner than this if you would like to use one of the really renowned bakers. As your first option when searching for wedding cake makers, you could ask for recommendations from friends or family members who've recently got married.

You may also want to check online for websites promoting local cake designers, you should be able to get images of their wedding cakes on their own websites and on social media sites for example Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. In order to get a local Barnstaple cake maker who is confident about creating your cake, you should contact at least 3 people, and examine their wedding cake portfolios.

Bear in mind, you expect your cake to be tasty as well as look good and asking all your would be cake makers for a taste is essential. Ask all the bakers on your shortlist for a few samples to try, and have a friend or relative with you for a second opinion. If you have not by then decided, this could also help you make up your mind what kind of cake you would like.

There'll be several choices to make, for example the cake style ie 2 tier, 4 tiered, pillow shaped, scalloped, square, circular, 3 tier, single tiered or heart shaped, and kind of cake ie gateau, sorbet, chiffon, fruit cake, cheesecake, ganache, cupcakes, marble cake or sponge cake.

Another decision will be the flavour of the cake and you could select from vanilla, pink champagne, white chocolate and raspberry, apple spice, almond, chocolate, banana, carrot, lemon, coconut and red velvet. Following this you might select the wedding cake filling, maybe you would like vanilla mousse, lemon sorbet, German chocolate, raspberry mousse, white chocolate, chocolate fudge ganache, lemon curd, pastry cream, chocolate banana, hazelnut buttercream, strawberries and cream, marshmallow fluff, chocolate mousse or Bailey's Irish cream.

What Size Wedding Cake? - One puzzling element of choosing a wedding cake is the size, and before establishing this you might want to talk to your cake maker, as they usually use detailed cake charts which help them figure out exactly how many helpings can be cut from certain cake measurements. Equipped with a figure for your amount of guests and your chosen cake style, the tier sizes to provide you with the requested amount of servings can be estimated by your cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Standing conspicuously on the top of your wedding cake in Barnstaple, will be your chosen wedding cake topper, again the assortment of these is mind boggling. Pick any you fancy from diamante cake toppers, bow and bell wedding cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers, personalised cake toppers, pearl cake toppers, flower wedding cake toppers, white dove cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, diamond spray cake toppers, gold ring wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers and funny wedding cake toppers.

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