Wedding Cakes Canterbury

Your search for wedding cake makers in Canterbury, Kent, needs to start at least four months ahead of your planned wedding date, and perhaps sooner than this if you would like to use one of the really sought after bakers. If you know of family, friends and acquaintances who've fairly recently got married, you can as your first option try asking them if they might recommend the wedding cake makers who they used.

Make sure you look online for local cake designers, a lot of them use the internet to promote their services and you will likely be able to view several examples of wedding cakes they've made. You should not settle for the first Canterbury cake maker that you come across, it is always better to contact at least three or four bakers so you can assess their passion for this important project and get a concept of their ability from seeing a portfolio of their cakes.

Bear in mind, you want your cake to be tasty as well as look good and asking all your would be cake makers for a taste is imperative. Ask all the cake makers on your shortlist for a few samples to try, and have someone you can trust with you to get a second opinion. If you haven't already come to a conclusion regarding what type of cake you would prefer, this tasting may help you to make a final decision.

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

The next factor to decide will probably be the flavour of your wedding cake, some of the various choices include chocolate, lemon, red velvet, vanilla, almond, white chocolate, carrot, champagne, apple spice, coconut and lime and banana and walnut. Following this you are able to pick a filling for the cake, maybe you fancy buttercream, white chocolate, fresh strawberries, German chocolate, raspberry mousse, marshmallow fluff, lemon sorbet, pastry cream, vanilla mousse, dark chocolate ganache, chocolate banana, chocolate mousse, lemon curd or chocolate cherry.

Wedding Cake Sizes - Calculating a size for your wedding cake could be beyond your abilities, so you'll want to have a talk with the cake maker in regards to this and they'll help you with this process. The cake maker will then be in a position to determine the tier dimensions based on your choice of style and your projected number of guests.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Lastly, you need to pick out your wedding cake topper, and once again there are a huge range of wedding cake toppers on offer for your wedding cake in Canterbury. Among the many kinds are pearl wedding cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, bow and bell wedding cake toppers, personalised cake toppers, white dove wedding cake toppers, flower cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, gold ring wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, diamond spray wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, word wedding cake toppers and bride and groom wedding cake toppers.

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