Wedding Cakes Sherborne

If you wish to employ the services of a top notch professional wedding cake maker in Sherborne, you must start your search no less than four months prior to your wedding day when possible. As your first option when hunting for wedding cake makers, you could ask for recommendations from friends, family and acquaintances that have fairly recently been wed.

You may also want to check online for sites promoting local cake designers, you should easily be able to find images of their wedding cakes on their personal websites as well as on social networks for example Pinterest and Facebook. It would be a good idea speak to at least 3 or 4 local Sherborne cake makers at first, to provide you with plenty of choice, get an understanding of how confident they are and have a good look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and other work.

Also, don't forget to taste some of their cakes because you'll need to make sure that your cake both looks amazing and tastes fantastic. Ask for some samples to taste and have someone else with you, so you can get a second opinion. If you have not already done so, this ought to help you to come to a conclusion regarding what kind of cake you would prefer.

Your choices are many and varied and together with the cake design ie single tiered, 4 tier, pillow shaped, square, circular, two tiered, 3 tier, heart shaped or scalloped, you'll have to choose the kind of cake ie chiffon, fruit cake, gateau, cheesecake, marble cake, sponge cake, cupcakes, sorbet or ganache.

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

Wedding Cake Size - One puzzling aspect of choosing a wedding cake is the size, so before deciding this you must consult with the cake maker, since they all use detailed cake charts which help them estimate the number of slices can be comfortably cut from specific dimensions of cake. Once the style of the cake and the number of guests is established, the cake maker will proceed to determine the dimensions of the tiers to provide you with the needed quantity of slices.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The very last confusing choice that you'll have to make is your wedding cake topper, of which once again there are plenty. To stand on top of your wedding cake in Sherborne, pick from Mr and Mrs cake toppers, personalized wedding cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers, funny cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, gold ring cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, bell cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, floral cake toppers, diamond spray wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers and pearl bead wedding cake toppers.

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