Wedding Cakes Newcastle

Your search for wedding cake makers in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, needs to begin a minimum of four months ahead of your planned wedding date, and possibly sooner than that if you want to use one of the really renowned bakers. Talking to friends, relatives and acquaintances who have fairly recently got married is generally a good idea as a first option, you could ask them about the wedding cake makers who they used.

You may also want to check online for websites promoting local cake designers, you should certainly be able to find photographs of their wedding cakes on their own websites and on social media sites for example Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. You will want to find someone who will be excited about creating your wedding cake, so it's a good idea to get hold of at least three local Newcastle cake makers, and don't forget to ask to see a portfolio of their wedding cakes.

You will also want to taste their cakes as you will be expecting your cake to be tasty as well as look good. It's smart to have a second opinion, so take somebody else with you when you need to taste samples of their cakes. You will then be happy to decide about what type of cake you would prefer, if you have not already done this.

Your choices will be many and varied and together with the cake design ie round, single tiered, four tiered, pillow shaped, 3 tiered, heart shaped, square, 2 tier or scalloped, you'll have to choose the composition of the cake ie fruit cake, cupcakes, sponge cake, chiffon, ganache, gateau, marble cake, sorbet or cheesecake.

You will also want to pick a flavour, so get creative choosing from chocolate, pink champagne, banana and walnut, lemon, vanilla, apple spice, coconut and lime, almond, carrot, white chocolate and red velvet. Following this you can contemplate a filling for the cake, do you fancy pastry cream, Belgian chocolate, chocolate mousse, lemon curd, strawberries and cream, chocolate banana, buttercream, lemon sorbet, marshmallow fluff, white chocolate, vanilla mousse, raspberry mousse, dark chocolate ganache or chocolate hazelnut.

Wedding Cake Size - Calculating a size for your wedding cake will probably be difficult for you to do by yourself, therefore you will need to have a conflab with your cake maker about this and they can lead you through the process. Armed with a figure for your quantity of guests and your chosen style of cake, the tier sizes to provide you with the required number of servings can be calculated by the cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Last but not least, you will have to pick out a wedding cake topper, and once again you'll find a huge choice of wedding cake toppers on offer for your wedding cake in Newcastle. Among the various kinds are crystal cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, silver ring wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, funny cake toppers, diamond spray cake toppers, flower cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs cake toppers, word cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, white dove wedding cake toppers, pearl wedding cake toppers, personalised cake toppers and bell wedding cake toppers.

Tyne and Wear Wedding Cakes: Tynemouth, Longbenton, Hebburn, Gateshead, Jarrow, Washington, Whitley Bay, Sunderland, South Shields, Blaydon, Wallsend, Ryton, Hetton-le-Hole, Whickham, Newcastle and Houghton-le-Spring.