Wedding Cakes Long Eaton

Your search for wedding cake makers in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, should start not less than four or five months prior to your planned wedding date, and perhaps sooner than this if you would like to use one of the really sought after bakers. As your first option when looking for wedding cake makers, you could try getting recommendations from family members or friends that have just recently been wed.

Make sure you check online for local cake designers, many of them use the internet to showcase their services and you should be able to view some examples of wedding cakes that they have created. You should find somebody who'll be passionate about creating your wedding cake, therefore it's a wise idea to contact at least three or four local Long Eaton cake makers, and ensure you ask to examine a portfolio of their wedding cakes.

Remember to also have a taste of some of their cakes since you'll want to make sure that your cake both looks amazing and also tastes nice. It's smart to have a second opinion, so take somebody with you when you go to taste some samples of their cakes. You should then be ready to determine what type of cake you really want, if you have not already done this.

Your choices are many and varied and as well as the kind of cake ie sponge cake, gateau, sorbet, chiffon, cupcakes, fruit cake, cheesecake, marble cake or ganache, you will need to choose a design ie single tiered, 2 tiered, round, three tier, 4 tiered, scalloped, heart shaped, pillow shaped or square.

Another decision will be the flavour of the cake and you could pick from champagne, red velvet, almond, chocolate, white chocolate and raspberry, banana, coconut and lime, lemon, apple spice, vanilla and carrot. Next you are able to choose a filling for the cake, do you would like white chocolate, lemon sorbet, lemon curd, chocolate fudge ganache, strawberries and cream, vanilla mousse, hazelnut buttercream, marshmallow fluff, German chocolate, pastry cream, raspberry mousse, chocolate banana, chocolate mousse or orange curd.

What Size Wedding Cake? - One baffling element of arranging a wedding cake is the size, so before establishing this you'll want to talk to your cake maker, because they all use cake charts that help them to calculate what number of servings can be comfortably cut from certain cake dimensions. Armed with a figure for your quantity of guests and your style of cake, the tier sizes to provide you with the required quantity of portions can be calculated by the cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The final confusing choice that needs to be made is your wedding cake topper, of which yet again there are lots. To stand proudly on top of your wedding cake in Long Eaton, pick anything you fancy from novelty wedding cake toppers, flower cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers, funny cake toppers, dove cake toppers, gold ring wedding cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers, bell and bow cake toppers, personalised wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, pearl cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray cake toppers and diamante cake toppers.

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