Wedding Cakes Guildford

At the very least four to six months prior to your special day, you'll want to start looking for wedding cake makers in Guildford, Surrey, and if you are aiming to hire a top professional, perhaps even sooner. If you've got family, friends and acquaintances that have just recently been wed, you can as your first option try asking them if they can recommend the wedding cake makers that they used.

Many cake designers make use of the internet to showcase their products, so don't forget to check online for nearby bakers who've posted examples of wedding cakes they have created. So as to give you a varied choice, you'll want to get in touch with at least three or more local Guildford cake makers, so that you can check out their portfolios of wedding cakes and get a feel for how passionate they are about the important task.

To be sure you will also want to taste their various cakes because you will be expecting your wedding cake to taste good as well as look good. It is nice to have a second opinion, so take someone along with you when you go to taste samples of their cakes. This will also help you to decide precisely what type of cake you would like, if you have not by now come to a conclusion.

There will be lots of choices to be made, such as the kind of cake ie ganache, marble cake, sorbet, sponge cake, cupcakes, cheesecake, fruit cake, chiffon or gateau, and the design of cake ie two tier, single tiered, square, heart shaped, scalloped, pillow shaped, three tier, circular or four tiered.

A further consideration will be the flavour of the wedding cake, choose one from chocolate, red velvet, champagne, coconut, carrot, almond, banana, white chocolate, vanilla, lemon and apple spice. After this you are able to select the filling for the cake, maybe chocolate banana, marshmallow fluff, white chocolate, German chocolate, fresh strawberries, chocolate mousse, vanilla mousse, lemon sorbet, raspberry mousse, chocolate ganache, pastry cream, hazelnut buttercream, lemon curd or Bailey's Irish cream.

What Size Wedding Cake? - One rather confusing element of arranging a wedding cake is the size, so before establishing this you will need to speak to your cake maker, as they all have detailed cake charts which help them to work out what number of helpings can be cut from certain dimensions of cake. Your cake maker will then estimate the dimensions of each tier in accordance with your choice of style and the expected amount of guests.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The last and final bewildering choice that has to be made is your wedding cake topper, of which yet again there are plenty. To stand proudly on top of your wedding cake in Guildford, pick one you fancy from butterfly wedding cake toppers, bow and bell wedding cake toppers, ring wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, white dove cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, diamond spray cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, funny cake toppers, word wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, flower wedding cake toppers and pearl cake toppers.

Surrey Wedding Cakes: Chertsey, Woking, Epsom, Staines, Banstead, Guildford, Redhill, Addlestone, Leatherhead, Reigate, Windlesham, Dorking, Haslemere, Farnham, Horley, Esher, Godalming, Ash, Ewell, Sunbury-on-Thames, Caterham, Hersham, Molesey, Camberley, Weybridge, Walton-on-Thames and Cranleigh.