Wedding Cakes Herne Bay

No less than 4-6 months prior to your special day, you need to start looking for wedding cake makers in Herne Bay, Kent, and if you are expecting to hire a top notch pro, perhaps even earlier. You could firstly try asking friends, relatives and acquaintances that have just recently got married to find out which wedding cake makers they used and whether or not they would recommend them.

You may also want to check online for sites promoting local cake designers, you should easily be able to find examples of their wedding cakes on their own websites and also on social networks such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. So that you can find a local Herne Bay cake maker who's passionate about designing your cake, you should get in touch with at least three or four people, and check out their wedding cake portfolios.

Tasting a range of cakes is also essential as you want a wedding cake that both looks great and tastes great. It is nice to have a second opinion, therefore take someone else along with you when you go to taste samples of their cakes. If you have not as yet decided, this could also help you make up your mind about what kind of cake you would like.

You'll have numerous choices including the cake design ie four tier, round, pillow shaped, 2 tier, scalloped, square, heart shaped, 3 tiered or single tiered, and the kind of cake ie cheesecake, ganache, fruit cake, sorbet, marble cake, chiffon, sponge cake, gateau or cupcakes.

The flavour of the cake is another detail you'll need to decide, alternatives could be red velvet, carrot, apple spice, banana and walnut, pink champagne, vanilla, lemon, chocolate, white chocolate and raspberry, coconut and lime and almond. Then you are able to choose the filling for the cake, possibly chocolate banana, white chocolate, buttercream, fresh strawberries, raspberry mousse, chocolate mousse, German chocolate, pastry cream, lemon sorbet, marshmallow fluff, chocolate fudge ganache, vanilla mousse, lemon curd or Bailey's Irish cream.

Wedding Cake Size - One bewildering part of arranging a wedding cake is the size, so before you decide this you'll want to chat with your cake maker, as they use cake charts which help them determine the amount of slices can be cut from certain cake dimensions. As soon as you have decided on the cake design, your cake maker can easily calculate the tier dimensions based on your expected number of guests and how many servings you're planning to pass out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Last of all, you've got to pick out a wedding cake topper, and once more you'll find hundreds of wedding cake toppers on offer for your wedding cake in Herne Bay. Among the many styles are bride and groom wedding cake toppers, white dove wedding cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, bow and bell cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray wedding cake toppers, pearl bead wedding cake toppers, ring wedding cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, word cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, personalized wedding cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers and flower cake toppers.

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