Wedding Cakes Gateshead

No less than 4 months prior to your special day, you'll want to begin hunting for wedding cake makers in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, and if you are aiming to hire a top notch pro, possibly even earlier. Talking to friends or relatives who have fairly recently got married is generally a good idea as your first option, you can ask them about the wedding cake makers that they used.

Hunting online is another excellent method, with local cake designers in Gateshead promoting their creations on social networking platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, together with their own individual websites, by publishing photographs of their wedding cakes. It would be wise get in touch with at least three local Gateshead cake makers initially, to provide you with lots of choice, get a feel for how passionate they are and have a good look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and other work.

You'll expect a cake that both looks amazing and tastes great and having a tasting is an essential part of the process. When you're planning to taste some cake samples take another person along with you who is able to supply a second opinion. If you've not by now come to a conclusion about what sort of cake you would like, this tasting will help you to decide.

There'll be various choices to be made, for example the cake style ie 2 tiered, square, 3 tiered, single tiered, 4 tier, heart shaped, pillow shaped, circular or scalloped, and kind of cake ie gateau, cupcakes, sponge cake, sorbet, marble cake, chiffon, ganache, fruit cake or cheesecake.

You will also want to pick out a flavour, so knock yourself out choosing from almond, banana and walnut, coconut and lime, red velvet, vanilla, champagne, chocolate, apple, white chocolate and raspberry, lemon and carrot. After that you should pick a cake filling, do you would like vanilla mousse, pastry cream, raspberry mousse, dark chocolate ganache, marshmallow fluff, lemon sorbet, white chocolate, chocolate mousse, hazelnut buttercream, strawberries and cream, lemon curd, German chocolate, chocolate banana or chocolate cherry.

Wedding Cake Size - Calculating a size for your wedding cake will be tricky for you to do by yourself, thus you'll want to have a discussion with your cake maker concerning this and they can guide you with this process. Armed with a figure for your number of guests and your design of cake, the tier sizes to provide you with the requested number of portions can be estimated by the cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Standing proudly on the top of your wedding cake in Gateshead, will be your carefully chosen wedding cake topper, again the variety of these is mind blowing. Pick anything from novelty wedding cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, silver ring wedding cake toppers, pearl bead wedding cake toppers, diamond spray cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, word cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, dove cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, bow and bell cake toppers, floral cake toppers, crystal cake toppers and butterfly wedding cake toppers.

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