Wedding Cakes Hanley

It's best to start your search for wedding cake makers in Hanley a minimum of four to six months ahead of your big day, perhaps even earlier if you want to use the services of a top pro. If you know of friends or relatives who've just recently been wed, you might as a first option try asking them to recommend the wedding cake makers that they used.

Browsing online is another good method, with local cake designers in Hanley promoting their products on social media sites like Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter, together with their own individual websites, by publishing photographs of their wedding cakes. It's not advisable to plump for the first Hanley cake maker that you track down, it's normally best to make contact with at least three or more individuals so that you can assess their passion for the task and get an idea about their ability from viewing a portfolio of their cakes.

You'll also want to taste their various cakes because you will be wanting your wedding cake to taste as nice as it looks. When you are planning to taste some cake samples take another person along with you who is able to give you a second opinion. You might then be happy to choose what sort of cake you really want, if you've not already done this.

Your possible choices will be many and varied and in addition to the cake design ie four tier, square, pillow shaped, two tiered, 3 tiered, heart shaped, round, single tiered or scalloped, you will need to decide on the kind of cake ie chiffon, marble cake, gateau, sorbet, fruit cake, sponge cake, ganache, cupcakes or cheesecake.

Yet another consideration will be the flavour of the cake, pick one from chocolate, red velvet, vanilla, apple spice, almond, white chocolate, banana and walnut, champagne, carrot, lemon and coconut. Following this you could pick the filling, do you would like caramel buttercream, vanilla mousse, chocolate fudge ganache, marshmallow fluff, chocolate mousse, Belgian chocolate, chocolate banana, pastry cream, lemon curd, raspberry mousse, lemon sorbet, white chocolate, strawberries and cream or chocolate cherry.

What Size Wedding Cake? - One puzzling part of choosing a wedding cake is the size, and before deciding on this you should chat with your cake maker, since they have detailed cake charts which help them calculate exactly how many helpings can be cut from certain measurements of cake. Armed with a figure for your volume of guests and your chosen cake design, the tier sizes to provide you with the requested amount of portions can be estimated by your cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Standing proudly on top of your wedding cake in Hanley, will be your chosen wedding cake topper, and again the variety of these is amazing. Take your pick from horseshoe wedding cake toppers, message wedding cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, floral cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, pearl wedding cake toppers, bell wedding cake toppers, personalised cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs cake toppers, ring wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers and funny cake toppers.

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