The Perfect Celebration Cake
You may already know exactly how you’d
like your cake to look, what you want it to taste like, and how
big it needs to be. But in case you don’t, the following
may help you towards your decision:
Things to consider
Types
& Flavours of Cake
These include traditional rich fruitcake, golden Madeira, darkly
delicious chocolate and moist, fruity carrot cake. If you are
having more than one tier, why not choose a combination of flavours?
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Icings
& Fillings
Madeira and other sponge-type cakes can be filled with your choice
of vanilla or flavoured buttercream, quality preserves or dreamy
chocolate cream.
Rich fruitcakes are covered with a layer of
marzipan, and then coated with soft sugarpaste icing, or the firmer,
more traditional royal icing. Madeira and sponge cakes are covered
with sugarpaste icing over a layer of buttercream or marzipan.
Totally chocolate cakes can be covered with
plain, milk or white chocolate couverture, rich dark ganache,
chocolate marzipan, sugarpaste icing, chocolate curls, fans, flakes,
handmade chocolate roses, and more. See if you can resist our
Heavenly Creations in Chocolate!
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Colour
Schemes & Themes
Icings, ribbons and other decorations can all be matched to your
chosen colour scheme. Delicate
sugar flowers can be hand made to co-ordinate with your bouquet,
and we can even design a cake to reflect the style and fabric
of your wedding dress, or to follow a chosen theme.
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Shape,
Design & Decoration
The following are all popular shapes for wedding cakes - the choice
is yours. With multi-tiered cakes, 2 or more shapes can often
be combined very effectively.
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Round |
Diamond |
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Square |
Heart |
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Oval |
Petal |
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Hexagonal |
Teardrop |
With design and decoration, the possibilities
are limitless. Choose from realistically beautiful handmade flowers,
delicate piping and lacework, hand-painting, modelling, fabric
effects, texturing and much more.
Please look at our “Inspirational
Wedding Cake Designs”, “Handmade
Sugar Flowers”, and “Special
Occasion Cakes” for just some of the ways to enhance
your cake. Then let your imagination go!
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Ways
to Display
The assembly and display of a wedding cake is as important as
its shape, colour and design. These days, ‘stacked’
wedding cakes are very popular, but other options should not be
ignored, and the following can all be used to very good effect:
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Pillars |
Dividers |
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Separators |
Candlesticks |
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Multi-tiered stands |
Glassware |
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Base stands |
Porcelain |
For more options and suggestions please look
at “Inspirational Wedding Cake Designs”.
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Size
of Cakes & Number of Tiers
I will be happy to help you work out how much cake you will need,
if you’d like to contact me with the number of your guests.
But be assured, this needn’t restrict your choice of cake
design, or the number of tiers you would like to have.
If you have more guests than your ideal cake
could accommodate, I can provide additional “cutting cake”
to make up the extra portions. Conversely, if the cake you'd love
to have would provide too many portions for your wedding party,
one or more tiers could be “dummy” cakes, which would
be indistinguishable from the other real tiers, but wouldn’t
be cut and served.
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In Summary
I hope the above has been helpful, but please browse through the
rest of my website for more ideas and information. And please
do contact me if I can be of further
help. If you live within reach of Rochester in Kent, please come
and see me at my sugarcraft gallery, situated close by the historic
city centre - Find us.
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