Wedding Cakes Stanley

If you wish to employ the services of a top notch professional wedding cake maker in Stanley, it's best to start your search a minimum of four or five months ahead of your wedding day if at all possible. You may at first try asking friends or family members that have recently been wed to determine which wedding cake makers they used and if they'd recommend them.

Browsing online is another excellent method, with local cake designers in Stanley promoting on social network sites such as Facebook and Instagram, together with their own individual websites, by publishing photos of their wedding cakes. It would be wise to contact at least 3 local Stanley cake makers to begin with, to provide you with lots of choice, get an understanding of how confident they are and check out their portfolios of wedding cakes and other creations.

You'll want a cake that both looks great and tastes great and doing a tasting is an important element of the process. Ask all of the cake makers on your shortlist for a few samples to try, and have a friend or relative with you to get a second opinion. This will also help you to decide exactly what type of cake you would prefer, if you have not by now made up your mind.

There will be lots of choices to make, including the cake style ie single tiered, three tier, scalloped, four tiered, 2 tier, pillow shaped, square, heart shaped or circular, and kind of cake ie fruit cake, marble cake, cheesecake, ganache, cupcakes, chiffon, sorbet, sponge cake or gateau.

Another thing to decide will be the flavour of the wedding cake and you could choose from lemon, apple spice, almond, pink champagne, banana and walnut, coconut and lime, carrot, red velvet, chocolate, white chocolate and raspberry and vanilla. Next you should select a cake filling, do you would like fresh strawberries, Belgian chocolate, lemon sorbet, marshmallow fluff, chocolate banana, chocolate mousse, white chocolate, vanilla mousse, lemon curd, pastry cream, hazelnut buttercream, raspberry mousse, dark chocolate ganache or cookies and cream.

What Size Wedding Cake Will You Need? - One puzzling element of arranging a wedding cake is the size, and really before deciding on this you will need to talk with your cake maker, since they usually have detailed cake charts that help them calculate exactly how many servings can be cut from specific dimensions of cake. When you've decided on the cake design, the cake maker will calculate the measurements for the tiers based on your number of guests and what number of slices you are wanting to give out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Picking out a wedding cake topper ought not to be simply an afterthought, because what you choose will be the crowning glory of your wedding cake in Stanley. Choose from acrylic diamond spray cake toppers, message wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, pearl wedding cake toppers, white dove wedding cake toppers, personalized wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, floral wedding cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, bow and bell cake toppers, gold ring cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers and bride and groom wedding cake toppers.

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