Wedding Cakes St Helens

Your hunt for wedding cake makers in St Helens, Merseyside, needs to begin at least four or five months prior to your planned wedding date, and possibly sooner than this if you would like to use one of the really renowned bakers. Speaking to friends or family members who've recently got married is generally really useful as your first option, you can ask about the wedding cake makers who they used.

You can also check online for websites promoting local cake designers, you should be able to get photos of their wedding cakes on their very own websites and also on social network platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It would be sensible get in touch with at least three or four local St Helens cake makers to begin with, to give you plenty of choice, get a feel for how confident they are and have a good look at their portfolios of wedding cakes and other products.

Also, don't forget to have a taste of several of their cakes as you need to ensure that your cake both looks amazing and also tastes nice. Therefore, take someone with you, so as to have another opinion, and ask for samples of cakes that they've already made. This will also help you in choosing what sort of cake you would prefer, if you've not already come to a conclusion.

There'll be quite a few choices to be made, including the type of cake ie sponge cake, marble cake, cupcakes, cheesecake, gateau, fruit cake, chiffon, sorbet or ganache, and the design of cake ie scalloped, 4 tiered, square, 2 tier, single tiered, round, pillow shaped, heart shaped or three tiered.

You'll also have to pick out a flavour, so get creative choosing from red velvet, lemon, white chocolate and raspberry, pink champagne, coconut, carrot, apple spice, almond, chocolate, banana and walnut and vanilla. After that you might decide on the filling, perhaps hazelnut buttercream, chocolate fudge ganache, white chocolate, vanilla mousse, chocolate banana, raspberry mousse, lemon sorbet, lemon curd, chocolate mousse, fresh strawberries, marshmallow fluff, Belgian chocolate, pastry cream or raspberry almond.

Wedding Cake Sizes - Establishing exactly what size wedding cake is needed can be rather confusing, though this can be easily solved by speaking to your cake maker, who will doubtless have a useful chart for estimating cake sizes based upon specific factors. When you have settled on the style of cake, your cake maker will calculate the measurements for the tiers based upon your projected number of guests and the quantity of slices you're going to give out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The last bewildering choice which needs to be made is your wedding cake topper, of which yet again there are lots. To stand on top of your wedding cake in St Helens, pick from funny cake toppers, flower cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, message cake toppers, novelty wedding cake toppers, butterfly cake toppers, diamante cake toppers, gold ring cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, dove wedding cake toppers, diamond spray wedding cake toppers, bell and bow cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, crystal wedding cake toppers and pearl cake toppers.

Merseyside Wedding Cakes: Maghull, Prescot, Bebington, Halewood, Southport, St Helens, Haydock, Crosby, Liverpool, Kirkby, Birkenhead, Newton-le-Willows, Litherland, Wallasey, Formby, Bootle and Heswall.