Wedding Cakes St Albans

If you want to retain the services of a top pro wedding cake maker in St Albans, you need to start your search a minimum of 4 or 5 months prior to your wedding day when possible. Speaking to friends or relatives that have just recently been wed is generally a great idea as your first option, you could ask about the wedding cake makers that they used.

Do not forget to check online for local cake designers, the majority of them use the internet to promote their creations and you should be able to see several examples of wedding cakes that they've created. So as to give you plenty of choice, it might be wise to get in touch with at least 3 local St Albans cake makers, so that you can have a peek at their portfolios of wedding cakes and get a feel for how passionate they are about this project.

You'll expect a cake that both looks awesome and also tastes great and having a tasting is an important aspect of the process. When you are planning to taste some cake samples take another person along with you who can give you a second opinion. If you have not already come to a conclusion about what sort of cake you want, this tasting will help you to decide.

There'll be lots of choices to be made, like the cake design ie square, scalloped, four tier, heart shaped, 2 tier, round, single tiered, pillow shaped or 3 tier, and kind of cake ie sorbet, cheesecake, sponge cake, chiffon, ganache, gateau, fruit cake, cupcakes or marble cake.

Another thing to decide will be the flavour of your wedding cake and you could choose from pink champagne, chocolate, almond, banana and walnut, white chocolate and raspberry, coconut, apple, lemon, carrot, vanilla and red velvet. After this you could pick out a cake filling, do you fancy lemon curd, hazelnut buttercream, lemon sorbet, Belgian chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate mousse, strawberries and cream, chocolate banana, raspberry mousse, marshmallow fluff, pastry cream, chocolate ganache, vanilla mousse or mango.

Wedding Cake Sizes - One tricky part of choosing a wedding cake is the size, and really before you decide this you need to meet with your cake maker, since they use cake charts which help them figure out what amount of helpings can be comfortably cut from specific sizes of cake. When you have settled upon the cake style, the cake maker will be able to estimate the sizes for the tiers in accordance with your predicted number of guests and how many servings you're aiming to hand out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - Selecting a wedding cake topper shouldn't be just an afterthought, because what you end up choosing is going to end up being crowning glory of your wedding cake in St Albans. Choose from Mr and Mrs cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray wedding cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, pearl bead cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, message wedding cake toppers, bell and bow wedding cake toppers, funny cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, floral cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers and silver ring wedding cake toppers.

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