Wedding Cakes Southport

Your search for wedding cake makers in Southport, Merseyside, needs to begin a minimum of 4-6 months prior to your wedding date, and possibly sooner than this if you would like to use one of the really renowned bakers. If you have family, friends and acquaintances that have fairly recently got married, you might as your first option try asking them if they can recommend the wedding cake makers that they used.

You might also check online for websites promoting local cake designers, you should certainly be able to locate images of their wedding cakes on their personal websites as well as on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. You shouldn't settle for the first Southport cake maker that you find, it is generally better to get in touch with at least 3 or more bakers so that you can assess their enthusiasm for the task and get an idea about their proficiency from seeing a portfolio of their cakes.

You'll also need to taste their cakes because you expect your wedding cake to be tasty as well as look good. Therefore, take someone with you, so as to have a second opinion, and ask for some samples of cakes that they have made. This will also help you in choosing exactly what type of cake you would like, if you have not already made up your mind.

Your possible choices are countless and in addition to the kind of cake ie marble cake, gateau, cupcakes, sorbet, ganache, chiffon, cheesecake, fruit cake or sponge cake, you'll need to pick out a design ie 2 tier, scalloped, 4 tier, circular, heart shaped, square, 3 tiered, single tiered or pillow shaped.

Yet another consideration is the flavour of your cake, choose from almond, vanilla, apple spice, banana, lemon, coconut and lime, white chocolate and raspberry, pink champagne, red velvet, carrot and chocolate. After this you might pick out a cake filling, perhaps chocolate mousse, vanilla mousse, white chocolate, raspberry mousse, chocolate banana, Belgian chocolate, lemon sorbet, caramel buttercream, dark chocolate ganache, lemon curd, marshmallow fluff, pastry cream, strawberries and cream or chocolate hazelnut.

What Size Wedding Cake? - Deciding on what size wedding cake is required may be somewhat confusing, though this is easily sorted by chatting with your cake maker, who'll doubtless have a useful chart for calculating sizes for cakes according to specific factors. Once you have decided upon the style of cake, the cake maker can easily calculate the tier sizes based upon your predicted number of guests and the actual number of helpings you are looking to hand out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Standing proudly on top of your wedding cake in Southport, will be your meticulously chosen wedding cake topper, and again the variety of these is amazing. Pick anything from pearl bead wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs cake toppers, floral cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, personalized wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers, dove cake toppers, gold ring wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray wedding cake toppers, bell wedding cake toppers and funny cake toppers.

Merseyside Wedding Cakes: Liverpool, Bebington, Crosby, Halewood, Bootle, Litherland, Southport, Maghull, Birkenhead, Prescot, Haydock, St Helens, Newton-le-Willows, Kirkby, Wallasey, Heswall and Formby.