Wedding Cakes Eastwood

Your hunt for wedding cake makers in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, ought to start at least 4 months before your wedding date, and possibly sooner than this if you want to use one of the really popular bakers. If you have relatives or friends who have recently got married, you could as a first option try asking them to recommend the wedding cake makers who they used.

Searching online is another great method, with local cake designers in Eastwood promoting their creations on social network sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, as well as their own websites, by posting shots of their wedding cakes. It's not wise to plump for the very first Eastwood cake maker that you track down, it is generally best to contact at least three or four bakers so you can guage their passion for this important project and get a concept of their ability from seeing a portfolio of their cakes.

You'll want a cake that both looks great and tastes great and doing a tasting is an important element of the process. So, take someone with you, so that you have another opinion, and ask for some samples of cakes which they have made recently. This will also help you in determining precisely what kind of cake you would prefer, if you have not by now made up your mind.

There'll be a number of choices to be made, including the type of cake ie cupcakes, cheesecake, fruit cake, sponge cake, chiffon, sorbet, gateau, marble cake or ganache, and the style of cake ie pillow shaped, 4 tier, single tiered, scalloped, round, three tiered, two tier, heart shaped or square.

Yet another consideration will be the flavour of your wedding cake, make a choice from vanilla, lemon, pink champagne, red velvet, coconut, white chocolate, apple, almond, banana and walnut, carrot and chocolate. Following this you might pick out the filling, perhaps you would like dark chocolate ganache, strawberries and cream, chocolate mousse, white chocolate, vanilla mousse, lemon sorbet, marshmallow fluff, Belgian chocolate, raspberry mousse, pastry cream, hazelnut buttercream, lemon curd, chocolate banana or chocolate cherry.

Wedding Cake Sizes - One bewildering aspect of choosing a wedding cake is the size, and before establishing this you will need to speak to your cake maker, as they usually use detailed cake charts which help them to work out the amount of helpings can be cut from specific cake sizes. Armed with a figure for your quantity of guests and your chosen cake style, the tier sizes to give you the requested amount of portions can be calculated by the cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The last bewildering choice that you will have to make is your wedding cake topper, of which again there are plenty. To stand on top of your wedding cake in Eastwood, pick one you fancy from Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, white dove wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, funny cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray wedding cake toppers, floral wedding cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, bell wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, pearl wedding cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, ring cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers and word cake toppers.

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