Wedding Cakes Ilford

At least 4 months before your special day, you should start hunting for wedding cake makers in Ilford, Essex, and if you are aiming to hire a top notch pro, maybe even sooner. As your first option when looking for wedding cake makers, you could ask for recommendations from relatives, friends and acquaintances that have just recently been wed.

A second effective method is to have a look online, as several local cake designers post images of wedding cakes they've produced, and use this up-to-date technology to advertise their services and goods. It would be wise to contact at least 3 local Ilford cake makers to start with, to give you plenty of choice, get an understanding of how confident they are and have a good look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and other creations.

You will expect a cake that both looks amazing and also tastes wonderful and having a tasting is an essential element of the process. Ask for a few samples to taste and take somebody with you for this, to enable you to get a second opinion. If you have not already decided, this might also help you in making up your mind regarding what type of cake you would like.

The possible choices are countless and along with the cake style ie square, heart shaped, single tiered, 4 tier, 3 tiered, scalloped, pillow shaped, two tiered or round, you'll need to choose the composition of the cake ie chiffon, cheesecake, sorbet, gateau, sponge cake, fruit cake, cupcakes, ganache or marble cake.

Another decision will be the flavour of your cake and you might pick from red velvet, apple spice, carrot, vanilla, white chocolate and raspberry, coconut and lime, chocolate, lemon, pink champagne, banana and walnut and almond. Next you could choose a cake filling, maybe vanilla mousse, raspberry mousse, marshmallow fluff, lemon curd, dark chocolate ganache, Belgian chocolate, lemon sorbet, fresh strawberries, pastry cream, white chocolate, chocolate mousse, caramel buttercream, chocolate banana or raspberry almond.

Wedding Cake Size - Determining a size for your wedding cake will be hard for you to do yourself, consequently you will need to have a discussion with your chosen cake maker regarding this and they will help you with this process. 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 estimated by the cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The very last confusing choice that you will have to make is your wedding cake topper, of which yet again there are many. To stand proudly on top of your wedding cake in Ilford, pick from white dove wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, pearl bead wedding cake toppers, bell wedding cake toppers, flower cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, funny cake toppers, message wedding cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, ring wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers and diamante wedding cake toppers.

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