Wedding Cakes Portishead

At the very least four months ahead of your special day, you should begin looking for wedding cake makers in Portishead, Somerset, and if you are aiming to hire a top pro, possibly even earlier. As a first option when trying to find wedding cake makers, you could try requesting recommendations from friends, family and acquaintances that have just recently got married.

Looking online is another good method, with local cake designers in Portishead advertising on social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, together with their own websites, by posting photographs of their wedding cakes. So that you are able to identify a local Portishead cake maker who's confident about designing your cake, its advisable to make contact with at least 3 or more people, and check out their wedding cake portfolios.

You will also need to taste their cakes because you will be wanting your wedding cake to taste nice as well as look good. Ask for a few samples to taste and take somebody with you for this, so you can get a second opinion. If you've not by now made up your mind about what kind of cake you want, this tasting might help you to make a final decision.

You'll have various choices including the cake design ie four tier, three tiered, round, two tier, single tiered, square, pillow shaped, heart shaped or scalloped, and the type of cake ie ganache, fruit cake, gateau, sorbet, sponge cake, marble cake, cheesecake, chiffon or cupcakes.

The flavour of the wedding cake is another matter you'll have to decide, alternatives could be almond, vanilla, banana and walnut, carrot, white chocolate and raspberry, apple, lemon, red velvet, pink champagne, coconut and chocolate. After this you might pick a filling for the cake, maybe you fancy white chocolate, German chocolate, vanilla mousse, dark chocolate ganache, lemon curd, strawberries and cream, lemon sorbet, marshmallow fluff, pastry cream, chocolate banana, chocolate mousse, hazelnut buttercream, raspberry mousse or cookies and cream.

Wedding Cake Sizes - Determining exactly what size wedding cake you need will be rather bewildering, though this can easily be solved by speaking with the cake maker, who will no doubt have a nifty chart for determining cake sizes depending on certain factors. Once the cake style and the amount of guests is settled, the cake maker will be able to determine the measurements of each tier to provide the required volume of slices.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Last of all, you need to choose a wedding cake topper, and once more you will find a huge choice of cake toppers on the market for your wedding cake in Portishead. Among the various designs are bride and groom wedding cake toppers, flower cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, personalised wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers, pearl wedding cake toppers, word wedding cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, ring cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, white dove cake toppers, bell cake toppers and funny cake toppers.

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