Wedding Cakes Carlisle

No less than 4 months prior to your special day, you'll want to begin hunting for wedding cake makers in Carlisle, Cumbria, and if you are seeking to hire a top notch professional, possibly even sooner. If you have friends, family and acquaintances who've recently been wed, you could as your first option try asking them if they might recommend the wedding cake makers that they used.

A second good option is to have a look round online, because several local cake designers post pictures of wedding cakes that they've made, and use this modern technology to push their cakes and services. So that you are able to get a local Carlisle cake maker who's enthusiastic about completing your cake, it would be wise to get in touch with at least 3 or 4 people, and have a look at their wedding cake portfolios.

You'll expect a cake that both looks great and tastes great and having a tasting is an essential part of the process. Therefore, take somebody with you, so that you have a second opinion, and ask for samples of cakes that they've made recently. This should also help you in determining what kind of cake you would like, if you have not already made up your mind.

Your possible choices will be countless and in addition to the cake style ie square, heart shaped, single tiered, scalloped, round, 4 tier, pillow shaped, 3 tier or 2 tier, you will have to settle on the kind of cake ie fruit cake, chiffon, ganache, sponge cake, marble cake, cheesecake, sorbet, cupcakes or gateau.

The flavour of your wedding cake is another matter you'll have to decide, options may be red velvet, coconut and lime, carrot, almond, banana and walnut, white chocolate, vanilla, chocolate, pink champagne, lemon and apple spice. After this you could pick out a cake filling, perhaps you fancy caramel buttercream, chocolate banana, strawberries and cream, pastry cream, chocolate mousse, lemon sorbet, Belgian chocolate, lemon curd, marshmallow fluff, chocolate fudge ganache, vanilla mousse, raspberry mousse, white chocolate or chocolate cherry.

What Size Wedding Cake Will You Need? - Determining a size for your wedding cake will be tough for you to do by yourself, therefore you should have a discussion with the cake maker concerning this and they'll guide you through the process. Your cake maker will then be able to calculate the sizes of each tier in accordance with your choice of style and the proposed quantity of guests.

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

Cumbria Wedding Cakes: Barrow-in-Furness, Whitehaven, Maryport, Workington, Ulverston, Kendal, Penrith and Carlisle.