Wedding Cakes Telford

At least 4 or 5 months prior to your special day, you'll want to start looking for wedding cake makers in Telford, Shropshire, and if you are hoping to hire a top professional, maybe even sooner. Talking to family, friends and acquaintances that have recently been wed is always really helpful as a first option, you could ask them about the wedding cake makers who they used.

Searching online is another good option, with local cake designers in Telford promoting on social media like Pinterest and Facebook, together with their own websites, by publishing shots of their wedding cakes. It would be sensible speak to at least three or more local Telford cake makers at first, to give you lots of choice, get a feel for how confident they are and check out their portfolios of wedding cakes and other creations.

You'll want a cake that both looks good and tastes good and doing a tasting is an essential aspect of the process. Ask all of the wedding cake makers on your shortlist for a few samples to try, and have a friend with you to get a second opinion. This should also help you to establish precisely what kind of cake you would prefer, if you've not by now made up your mind.

Your choices will be many and varied and in addition to the composition of the cake ie fruit cake, cheesecake, cupcakes, chiffon, gateau, sorbet, ganache, marble cake or sponge cake, you'll have to decide on a style ie heart shaped, pillow shaped, square, 2 tier, round, four tiered, single tiered, scalloped or three tiered.

The flavour of the cake is another detail you'll need to decide, alternatives might be coconut and lime, red velvet, banana and walnut, lemon, pink champagne, vanilla, chocolate, apple spice, carrot, white chocolate and raspberry and almond. After this you should think about the cake filling, maybe lemon curd, pastry cream, chocolate ganache, raspberry mousse, lemon sorbet, Belgian chocolate, chocolate banana, strawberries and cream, caramel buttercream, white chocolate, vanilla mousse, marshmallow fluff, chocolate mousse or dulce de leche.

Wedding Cake Sizes - One confusing aspect of ordering a wedding cake is the size, and before you decide this you ought to speak with the cake maker, as they all use cake charts that help them figure out how many servings can be comfortably cut from specific sizes of cake. When you've settled on the design of cake, the cake maker will be able to estimate the tier sizes based upon your number of guests and the actual number of servings you're going to hand out.

Wedding Cake Toppers - The final confusing choice which has to be made is your wedding cake topper, of which once again there are lots. To stand on top of your wedding cake in Telford, pick one you fancy from crystal wedding cake toppers, flower wedding cake toppers, Mr and Mrs wedding cake toppers, ring wedding cake toppers, message wedding cake toppers, bell cake toppers, funny wedding cake toppers, bride and groom wedding cake toppers, butterfly wedding cake toppers, white dove cake toppers, diamante wedding cake toppers, personalized cake toppers, acrylic diamond spray wedding cake toppers, horseshoe cake toppers, novelty cake toppers and pearl bead wedding cake toppers.

Shropshire Wedding Cakes: Oswestry, Madeley, Shrewsbury, Wellington and Telford.