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[H1369]How To Make A Wedding Cake

by Adi Marsudi, Adi

The Wedding Theme

A professional baker will discuss with you first about your wedding theme to make sure that his work match to your wedding theme. May be he will ask many things that related to your wedding theme, from color nuance, bouquet, decoration, till your wedding dress.

Wedding Budget
If you plan the wedding on a limited budget you should tell your baker honestly on how much your budget for a wedding cake. An experienced baker can change small thing to be special thing using accessories that are suitable for you wedding theme.

See Their Portfolio
When considering the cake design, you have to see their portfolio. Make sure their portfolio has an aesthetic character that you want. Don't get fixated with their big name. Sometimes big name can cause low in customer satisfaction. Intuitively they can think that your order is not worth, and the result may be unsuitable for you.

Taste the Cake First
Choose the flavor suitable for you & your guests. Taste cake first before you buy it. If there is any something that not suitable for you, you can discuss it with the baker. Consider on consistency in taste. Too much variation of taste will influence the entire of cake even wedding atmosphere. So, make sure that the taste is a part of & strengthening the whole wedding theme. You would rather see another cake designer if they don't let you taste cake.

Fresh Flowers or Gum Paste Flowers
If you want to put fresh flowers on the cake, assure that the flowers are free from pesticide. Gum paste flowers that made with dough of gum paste commonly are more expensive than real flowers. Be sides shape has to resemble with the original's shape, the dough composed of a lot of materials such as glycerin, gum Arabic, and icing sugar.

Fondant or Butter Cream Cake
Fondant (candy) shape may be look interesting, especially with attractive colors. But may be it is not as nice as its appearance. Whereas butter cream, hmmm yummy, but can melt easily. If it is the problem, just compromise. You can put butter cream layer under the fondant.

Order & Shipping

Order the cake early, because it need effort & enough time to design a memorable & gorgeous wedding cake. A cake designer needs enough time because they won't disappoint you. Remember, some people come to your cake designer, not only you. Others couples maybe have ordered their wedding cake before your order. You should order your cake at least 3-6 months before your wedding day for best result. Order early but ship as soon as possible. If you buy a firm baked cake like unfrosted cake, it's easy to ship. But, iIf you buy a perishable cake such as chocolate, soft meats, & cheesecake, it will require refrigeration on shipping. Assure that the car which ship your cake has full air conditioning to prevent the cake from melted away on the way. And assure that you have told your cake designer/baker about your wedding schedule & the address completely.

She told me the reasons why most wedding cakes turn out to be expensive are because the cake pans used to bake them are expensive. I will list some of the ways by which you can lower a wedding cake price and choose the best cake for your wedding:

1. Before you agree to give an order to the baker, make sure that the decoration and design is the right kind to suit your taste. Go through referrals and see what prices are being quoted. Look through the samples first before deciding on your cake. A supermarket could offer a wide range of cakes at a lesser cost than your bakery.

2. Decide on how you want to decorate your wedding cake?whether you want to keep it simple and cute or splendid and rich. Avoid over decorating the cake. It is not necessary to have a five tiered cake. You can have your cake stacked if you want.

3. Bakers who are not specially into wedding cakes could still bake the best cakes and cost less. Home bakers too do not charge much and could make lovely cakes.

4. You can borrow the pillars. There are disposable pillars available with your local baker or rental companies which are a better alternative than those crystal pillars if you want to cut down on the cost of the pillars. Let the baker or your local rental company helps you with the disposable pillars instead of the crystal ones.

5. Another great idea would be to find prices at a cake making or culinary school near your place. Students have baking and decorating cakes as part of their curriculum. You can be assured that you will get gorgeous cake and have your wedding cake made at a very low price.

6. Investigate prices at a culinary school near you. If students are baking and decorating wedding cakes as part of their curriculum, the per person charge may be greatly reduced.

7. You can even save on your wedding cake topper prices. In Mrs.Ingridman's case her uncle asked her what she would like to have as a wedding present. Her quick answer was a wedding cake topper. Often relatives and well wishers would ask you to ask what you need as a gift.

8. Another good thing which Miss. Ingridman did, which you may want to do, is that if you buy a multi-tiered cake, see that you decorate it yourself or have the florist do it for you. If you want flowers on your cake but the cost of the artificial flowers isn't fitting in your budget, let your florist put real flowers on the cake. Just make sure that they are non toxic. Check the price of the organic
edible flowers.

As Mrs. Ingridman put it, before you meet with any baker, look around for the best samples.

Expect to pay per slice of the cake as the cake cost depends more on style than flavors.

Before sign up with your baker, shop around or decide what is the topper you would like, what style you would want for you cake, what flavor is the taste of the season for you and how tiered it should be?but the most important see that your mouthwatering wedding cake comes at mouthwatering price.

It is important to get what you want, at a price which does not tug at your purse strings.

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