Wedding Cakes Melksham

Your search for wedding cake makers in Melksham, Wiltshire, needs to start at the very least four to six 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 a first option when looking for wedding cake makers, you could try asking for recommendations from friends, relatives and acquaintances who've fairly recently got married.

Don't neglect to search online for local cake designers, a few of them make use of the internet to showcase their products and you should be able to look at plenty of examples of wedding cakes they've made. It would be advisable speak to at least three or four local Melksham cake makers at first, to give you lots of choice, get an understanding of how passionate they are and have a good look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and other cakes.

Also remember to have a taste of several of their cakes as you need to make sure that your cake both looks good and tastes good. When you are going to taste some cake samples take another person along with you who can supply a second opinion. You might then be ready to decide about what kind of cake you would prefer, if you haven't already done so.

Your choices are countless and in addition to the kind of cake ie sponge cake, cupcakes, chiffon, fruit cake, cheesecake, ganache, marble cake, gateau or sorbet, you'll need to settle on a design ie heart shaped, pillow shaped, round, scalloped, single tiered, square, two tiered, three tier or 4 tier.

A further consideration will be the flavour of your wedding cake, choose between white chocolate, vanilla, banana, apple, champagne, lemon, carrot, coconut, almond, chocolate and red velvet. Next you are able to decide on the cake filling, maybe you fancy marshmallow fluff, Belgian chocolate, chocolate banana, lemon curd, white chocolate, strawberries and cream, pastry cream, vanilla mousse, dark chocolate ganache, lemon sorbet, hazelnut buttercream, chocolate mousse, raspberry mousse or coconut cream.

Wedding Cake Size - One tricky element of choosing a wedding cake is the size, and really before you decide this you'll want to speak with your cake maker, as they have detailed cake charts that help them estimate the number of servings can be comfortably cut from specific cake dimensions. As soon as you've settled on the style of cake, your cake maker can work out the sizes for the tiers in accordance with your predicted number of guests and the total number of servings you're planning to hand out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The very last bewildering choice which has to be made is your wedding cake topper, of which yet again there are many. To stand on top of your wedding cake in Melksham, pick one you fancy from message cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, floral cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, silver ring cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, funny cake toppers, pearl cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers, bell and bow cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers and personalised cake toppers.

Wiltshire Wedding Cakes: Amesbury, Trowbridge, Calne, Wootton Bassett, Chippenham, Devizes, Warminster, Swindon, Salisbury, Westbury, Tidworth, Corsham, Marlborough, Bradford-on-Avon and Melksham.