Wedding Cakes Eastleigh

Your search for wedding cake makers in Eastleigh, Hampshire, should commence at the very least four or five months before your planned wedding date, and perhaps sooner than this if you would like to use one of the really sought after bakers. You could firstly try asking family members or friends who have fairly recently been wed to find out which wedding cake makers they used and if they would recommend them.

Several cake designers make use of the internet to advertise their services, so make sure you check online for local bakers that have posted photos of wedding cakes that they have produced. It would be sensible get in touch with at least three or four local Eastleigh cake makers at first, to provide you with lots of choice, get a feel for how confident they are and check out their portfolios of wedding cakes and other products.

To be sure you will also need to taste their cakes as you will be wanting your cake to taste good as well as look good. When you're going to taste some cake samples take another person along with you who is able to give you a second opinion. If you've not as yet decided, this might also help you come to a conclusion regarding what sort of cake you would like.

The possible choices will be many and varied and in addition to the composition of the cake ie gateau, chiffon, sponge cake, cheesecake, ganache, fruit cake, cupcakes, sorbet or marble cake, you will need to pick a design ie square, pillow shaped, 2 tier, four tier, scalloped, heart shaped, circular, 3 tier or single tiered.

The flavour of your wedding cake is another detail you'll have to decide, alternatives could be lemon, coconut and lime, almond, carrot, white chocolate and raspberry, vanilla, red velvet, apple, banana and walnut, chocolate and pink champagne. Then you are able to pick out the filling for the cake, maybe raspberry mousse, chocolate mousse, chocolate banana, lemon sorbet, German chocolate, hazelnut buttercream, marshmallow fluff, vanilla mousse, pastry cream, fresh strawberries, white chocolate, lemon curd, dark chocolate ganache or orange curd.

What Size Wedding Cake? - Your chosen cake maker will willingly guide you through the subject of wedding cake size, and they will be easily able to estimate exactly what dimension of cake you will want using a nifty chart which they've got for this specific task. The cake maker will then be able to determine the sizes of each tier based on your choice of style and your proposed quantity of guests.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Last but not least, you have got to choose your wedding cake topper, and again you'll find a huge variety of wedding cake toppers on the market for your wedding cake in Eastleigh. Amongst the many designs are butterfly wedding cake toppers, diamond spray wedding cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, pearl bead wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers, funny cake toppers, gold ring cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, bell and bow wedding cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, flower wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers and personalised wedding cake toppers.

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