Wedding Cakes Andover

If you intend to employ the expertise of a top professional wedding cake maker in Andover, it's best to begin your search at the very least 4 or 5 months prior to your wedding day if it is possible. As your first option when hunting for wedding cake makers, you could ask for recommendations from friends or relatives who have fairly recently been wed.

Another good option is to have a peek online, since many local cake designers post images of wedding cakes they have made, and use this modern technology to advertise their services and goods. It would be best to contact at least 3 or more local Andover cake makers to start with, to provide you with lots of choice, get an understanding of how passionate they are and have a look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and other cakes.

Bear in mind, you want your cake to be tasty as well as look good and asking all of your would be cake makers for a tasting is crucial. Ask for some samples to taste and have somebody with you, so that you can get a second opinion. You should then be ready to determine what kind of cake you would prefer, if you haven't already done this.

You'll have quite a few choices like the cake style ie single tiered, square, pillow shaped, 4 tier, 2 tiered, circular, scalloped, heart shaped or three tier, and the kind of cake ie cheesecake, marble cake, gateau, ganache, cupcakes, chiffon, sponge cake, sorbet or fruit cake.

The flavour of the cake is another thing you'll have to decide, options may be vanilla, banana and walnut, carrot, red velvet, lemon, champagne, apple, white chocolate and raspberry, coconut and lime, almond and chocolate. Following this you can pick the wedding cake filling, perhaps chocolate fudge ganache, Belgian chocolate, hazelnut buttercream, pastry cream, chocolate banana, white chocolate, raspberry mousse, vanilla mousse, fresh strawberries, chocolate mousse, lemon sorbet, marshmallow fluff, lemon curd or fresh fruit.

What Size Wedding Cake do You Need? - One puzzling element of ordering a wedding cake is the size, and really before deciding this you'll want to check with the cake maker, since they use detailed cake charts that help them calculate just how many slices can be cut from specific cake dimensions. When you have decided upon the design of cake, the cake maker will calculate the measurements for the tiers based on your expected number of guests and what number of helpings you are wanting to give out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Last of all, you will need to choose a wedding cake topper, and once more you will find a huge variety of wedding cake toppers available for your wedding cake in Andover. Amongst the numerous types are butterfly wedding cake toppers, personalized wedding cake toppers, white dove cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, pearl cake toppers, bell and bow wedding cake toppers, novelty cake toppers, horseshoe wedding cake toppers, ring wedding cake toppers, diamond spray cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, crystal cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, word cake toppers, diamante cake toppers and flower wedding cake toppers.

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