Wedding Cakes Saltash

At least four or five months before your special day, you need to begin searching for wedding cake makers in Saltash, Cornwall, and if you are aiming to hire a top notch pro, possibly even earlier. If you've got family, friends and acquaintances who've just recently been wed, you could as a first option try asking them if they can recommend the wedding cake makers that they used.

Be sure to look online for local cake designers, several of them use the internet to promote their products and you might be able to see a few images of wedding cakes that they have created. You need to locate someone who'll be excited about designing and making your wedding cake, so it's a good idea to make contact with at least 3 or more local Saltash cake makers, and don't forget to ask to see a portfolio of their wedding cakes.

Don't forget, you want your cake to taste as great as it looks and asking all your potential cake makers for a taste is crucial. Ask all the cake makers on your shortlist for some samples to try, and have someone you can trust with you to get a second opinion. If you've not already decided, this could also help you make up your mind what kind of cake you would prefer.

The choices will be many and varied and in addition to the type of cake ie sorbet, marble cake, cupcakes, gateau, fruit cake, cheesecake, chiffon, ganache or sponge cake, you'll have to decide on a style ie single tiered, 4 tiered, 2 tier, round, square, three tiered, scalloped, pillow shaped or heart shaped.

The next detail to decide will be the flavour of the wedding cake, amongst the numerous choices are lemon, almond, vanilla, chocolate, carrot, apple, red velvet, coconut and lime, banana and walnut, champagne and white chocolate. Then you should choose a filling, possibly caramel buttercream, white chocolate, pastry cream, strawberries and cream, marshmallow fluff, lemon curd, Belgian chocolate, chocolate mousse, raspberry mousse, chocolate banana, dark chocolate ganache, lemon sorbet, vanilla mousse or chocolate hazelnut.

What Size Wedding Cake do I Need? - Your chosen cake maker will happily guide you on the question of wedding cake size, and they'll be easily able to figure out exactly what size of cake you will need using a handy chart that they've got for this specific task. Equipped with a figure for your volume of guests and your chosen design of cake, the tier sizes to give you the required number of servings can be estimated by the cake maker.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Lastly, you will need to pick out your wedding cake topper, and once more you will find a lot of cake toppers on the market for your wedding cake in Saltash. Amongst the numerous styles are funny cake toppers, bell and bow cake toppers, white dove cake toppers, pearl cake toppers, personalised wedding cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, message wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, silver ring wedding cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, diamond spray cake toppers, flower cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers and bride and groom wedding cake toppers.

Cornwall Wedding Cakes: Penzance, Truro, Camborne, Saltash, Falmouth, Newquay, Redruth, St Austell and Bodmin.