Wedding Cakes Billingham

It's recommended to start your search for wedding cake makers in Billingham at least four to six months prior to your big day, maybe earlier if you want to employ the services of a top pro. If you've got relatives, friends and acquaintances that have recently been wed, you could as a first option try asking them if they can recommend the wedding cake makers who they used.

Another effective option is to have a look round online, as many local cake designers post pictures of wedding cakes they've made, and use this contemporary technology to push their services and products. It would be best get in touch with at least three or more local Billingham cake makers at first, to provide you with lots of choice, get a feel for how confident they are and have a good look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and other work.

To be sure you'll also need to taste their cakes because you will be expecting your wedding cake to taste nice as well as look good. It is good to have a second opinion, therefore take someone else with you when you go to taste samples of their cakes. You might then be ready to choose what sort of cake you would prefer, if you haven't already done so.

The possible choices will be countless and as well as the composition of the cake ie sponge cake, marble cake, cupcakes, cheesecake, ganache, chiffon, fruit cake, sorbet or gateau, you'll have to pick a design ie square, 3 tiered, scalloped, 4 tier, heart shaped, round, 2 tiered, single tiered or pillow shaped.

The next detail to decide will be the flavour of the cake, some of the countless choices include vanilla, coconut, almond, pink champagne, banana, carrot, red velvet, chocolate, white chocolate and raspberry, apple and lemon. Then you can decide on a wedding cake filling, do you would like chocolate fudge ganache, German chocolate, chocolate banana, pastry cream, chocolate mousse, marshmallow fluff, vanilla mousse, strawberries and cream, lemon curd, raspberry mousse, lemon sorbet, hazelnut buttercream, white chocolate or Bailey's Irish cream.

What Size Wedding Cake? - Your chosen cake maker will be able to guide you on the issue of wedding cake size, and they will easily be able to determine what dimension of cake you need employing a handy chart which they've got for this specific purpose. As soon as you've decided on the design of cake, your cake maker will be able to work out the tier sizes based on your projected number of guests and how many slices you're planning to give out.

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

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