Wedding Cakes Brentwood

At least 4 or 5 months ahead of your special day, you need to begin hunting for wedding cake makers in Brentwood, Essex, and if you are aiming to hire a top professional, perhaps even sooner. As a first option when searching for wedding cake makers, you could try getting recommendations from friends, family and acquaintances that have recently got married.

A second good method is to have a look online, because many local cake designers post examples of wedding cakes they have made, and use this modern technology to showcase their cakes and services. So as to give you a varied choice, its advisable to speak to at least 3 local Brentwood cake makers, so you can have a look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and get an understanding of how confident they are about your task.

To be sure you'll also need to taste their various cakes because you expect your wedding cake to be tasty as well as look good. Ask for some samples to taste and take someone else with you, so as to get a second opinion. If you've not as yet decided, this may also help you make up your mind regarding what kind of cake you would prefer.

You will have various choices such as the composition of the cake ie ganache, marble cake, sponge cake, cheesecake, gateau, chiffon, sorbet, cupcakes or fruit cake, and the design of cake ie single tiered, two tier, four tier, round, square, scalloped, 3 tier, pillow shaped or heart shaped.

The next aspect to decide will be the flavour of your wedding cake, some of the many choices include red velvet, banana and walnut, coconut and lime, carrot, vanilla, white chocolate and raspberry, apple, champagne, lemon, almond and chocolate. Next you might decide on the filling, perhaps vanilla mousse, pastry cream, buttercream, lemon curd, fresh strawberries, chocolate banana, chocolate mousse, raspberry mousse, lemon sorbet, marshmallow fluff, German chocolate, chocolate ganache, white chocolate or raspberry almond.

Wedding Cake Sizes - One puzzling aspect of choosing a wedding cake is the size, so before deciding on this you will need to talk with the cake maker, as they usually have detailed cake charts which help them to figure out how many portions can be cut from certain cake measurements. Equipped with a figure for your amount of guests and your chosen design of cake, the tier sizes to give you the required amount of portions can be calculated by the cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Standing proudly on top of your wedding cake in Brentwood, will be your chosen wedding cake topper, and the assortment of these is mind boggling. Take your pick from message cake toppers, pearl wedding cake toppers, flower wedding cake toppers, bow and bell wedding cake toppers, dove cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, gold ring wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs cake toppers, personalised cake toppers and horseshoe cake toppers.

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