Wedding Cakes Taunton

A minimum of 4 months before your special day, you should start looking for wedding cake makers in Taunton, Somerset, and if you are aiming to hire a top professional, possibly even earlier. Talking to friends, family and acquaintances that have fairly recently got married is generally really useful as your first option, you could ask them about the wedding cake makers who they used.

You may also want to check online for websites promoting local cake designers, you should be able to get examples of their wedding cakes on their own websites and also on social networks such as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. It would in your interest to contact at least three or four local Taunton cake makers at first, to provide you with plenty of choice, get a sense of how confident they are and examine their portfolios of wedding cakes and other products.

You'll want a cake that both looks magnificent and tastes fantastic and doing a tasting is an essential part of the process. Ask all the wedding cake makers on your shortlist for some samples to try, and have a friend or relative with you to get a second opinion. You may then be happy to choose what sort of cake you want, if you haven't already done so.

You'll have several choices like the cake style ie 3 tier, four tier, circular, square, heart shaped, pillow shaped, single tiered, two tiered or scalloped, and the composition of the cake ie fruit cake, cupcakes, sponge cake, gateau, marble cake, chiffon, sorbet, cheesecake or ganache.

The flavour of your cake is another detail you will have to decide, options could be almond, vanilla, pink champagne, lemon, red velvet, carrot, chocolate, banana, white chocolate and raspberry, coconut and lime and apple spice. After this you should decide on the filling for the cake, possibly vanilla mousse, pastry cream, dark chocolate ganache, raspberry mousse, chocolate mousse, German chocolate, chocolate banana, fresh strawberries, marshmallow fluff, lemon curd, white chocolate, lemon sorbet, caramel buttercream or chocolate hazelnut.

Wedding Cake Sizes - Determining exactly what size wedding cake is needed may be a bit tricky, though this can be easily solved by talking to the cake maker, who will have a convenient chart for determining sizes for cakes based on different factors. When you have settled on the design of cake, the cake maker can estimate the tier measurements based on your projected number of guests and what number of helpings you are going to give out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Picking a wedding cake topper should not be an afterthought, since what you choose will end up being crowning glory of your wedding cake in Taunton. Pick from diamond spray cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, pearl wedding cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, message cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, dove cake toppers, floral cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, silver ring wedding cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers and bell and bow wedding cake toppers.

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