Wedding Cakes Oldbury

At least four months before your special day, you need to start searching for wedding cake makers in Oldbury, West Midlands, and if you are seeking to hire a top notch professional, maybe even sooner. If you have family, friends and acquaintances that have just recently been wed, you can as a first option try asking them if they can recommend the wedding cake makers who they used.

Hunting online is another good method, with local cake designers in Oldbury promoting their creations on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, as well as their own websites, by publishing photographs of their wedding cakes. It would be wise get in touch with at least three or more local Oldbury cake makers at first, to provide you with lots of choice, get a sense of how confident they are and examine their portfolios of wedding cakes and other cakes.

Also, don't forget to taste several of their cakes as you'll want to be sure that your cake both looks good and tastes good. Ask for some samples to taste and take somebody with you for this, so you're able to get a second opinion. If you haven't already made up your mind regarding what sort of cake you want, this tasting should help you to decide.

There'll be quite a few choices to be made, including the cake design ie heart shaped, pillow shaped, two tier, four tiered, scalloped, single tiered, square, circular or 3 tier, and composition of the cake ie chiffon, sponge cake, gateau, cupcakes, cheesecake, sorbet, fruit cake, marble cake or ganache.

Yet another consideration is the flavour of your wedding cake, pick one from red velvet, almond, chocolate, white chocolate and raspberry, lemon, carrot, apple, banana and walnut, champagne, coconut and vanilla. After this you could select the cake filling, do you would like vanilla mousse, German chocolate, lemon curd, hazelnut buttercream, chocolate fudge ganache, raspberry mousse, lemon sorbet, pastry cream, chocolate banana, white chocolate, fresh strawberries, chocolate mousse, marshmallow fluff or coconut cream.

What Size Wedding Cake? - One puzzling aspect of arranging a wedding cake is the size, so before deciding on this you'll want to speak with the cake maker, since they all have detailed cake charts which help them determine the amount of helpings can be comfortably cut from specific cake sizes. As soon as the cake design and the amount of guests is established, the cake maker can calculate the tier sizes so that you get the needed volume of portions.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The very last confusing choice that needs to be made is your wedding cake topper, of which once more there are lots. To stand proudly on top of your wedding cake in Oldbury, pick one you fancy from Mr and Mrs cake toppers, gold ring wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, flower wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers, pearl cake toppers, white dove wedding cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers and bell wedding cake toppers.

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