During
your initial consultation your cake designer should be
able to offer you a tasting of cakes in order for you
to choose whether you want fruit, sponge, chocolate or
something different like carrot cake or a flavoured sponge.
Next you need to decide how many portions you need from
your cake. This will depend on number of guests and whether
you wish to keep your top tier [traditionally for the
Christening of your first child] As for decoration - you
should take with you any pictures you may have found in
magazines along with colour swatches of your bridesmaids
dresses if you want the colour incorporated into your
cake. If you want hand made sugar flowers on your cake
ask your florist for the names of the flowers you have
chosen in your bouquet so that your decorator can reproduce
them in icing.
Your
chosen decorator should be able to show you pictures of
their past work and NOT just pictures in magazines or
books. Also thank you letters or cards from satisfied
customers are always a good indication of the quality
of past creations. You should also discuss whether your
decorator will deliver and set up your cake for you at
your reception venue.
Be
very careful if a well-meaning friend or relative offers
to make your cake. A wedding cake is a lot different to
making the odd novelty cake here and there. Disasters
can happen for instance when the cakes have not been cooked
for long enough or the other extreme been cooked for too
long and are burnt and dry. Or icing that hasn't had time
to set. Cakes set up without dowels can collapse - and
you don't want to be featured on TV's Wedding Video Clip
Disasters!!
©
Gaynor Collingwood , Cakesunlimited.net 2003
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