When assembling and decorating wedding cakes, use a small pairing knife with a sharp edge and slowly cut the corrugated board around the base of the top tier. Cut the top tier board when decorating a three-tier, whimsical wedding cake with tips from a professional cake designer in this free video on weddings. Expert: Melissa Maggiore Contact: www.AlessiBakeries.com. Bio: Melissa Maggiore is a professional cake designer for the Alessi Bakeries. With more than 15 years of wedding cake design experience she is responsible for completing over 450 wedding cakes a year. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
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Three-Tier Whimsical Wedding Cake Design : Wedding Cake: Cut Top Tier Board
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
The Dutch Epicure Shop – Decorating a Wedding Cake 1
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Decorating a recent wedding cake. Seven layers of chocolate cake with mocha buttercream filling covered in bittersweet chocolate ganache.
Hortense B. Hewitt Wedding Accessories, Cake Top, Porcelain, 50th Anniversary, 4.5-Inches Tall
Monday, September 6th, 2010
- Porcelain cake top or table decoration celebrates 50 years together
- Heart-shaped with shiny gold accents, sculpted flowers and gold-tone 50 charm
- 4-inch diameter base and 4.5-inches tall
- Look for all of Hortense B. Hewitt’s Anniversary accessories – for an event to remember
- Hortense B. Hewitt has been a leader in top-quality wedding supplies for more than 60 years
Product Description
Top a cake or decorate a table at a 50th Anniversary celebration with this porcelain, heart-shaped decoration with shiny gold accents, sculpted flowers and gold-tone 50 charm. 4.5-inches tall with a 4-inch diameter base. After the party, this porcelain creation will be a keepsake to treasure. Your anniversary deserves the best – and the best comes from Hortense B. Hewitt, the leader in quality wedding and celebration accessories for more than 60 years.
Hortense B. Hewitt Wedding Accessories, Cake Top, Porcelain, 50th Anniversary, 4.5-Inches Tall
Polymer Clay Wedding Cake Toppers
Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Here are some wedding cake toppers I’ve made for customers all over America and some parts of the world. www.polymerclaybabies.com
Bows and Bling Wedding Cake
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
This enormous 6 tiered square and round wedding cake is covered in ivory fondant and decorated with several crystal brooches. The second tier includes a “VP” monogram with gold and crystal accents which matches the wedding invitation. The base of every other tier includes a white band of crystals (crystal garland).
Choose Your Wedding Cake As Early As Possible
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
There is no doubt that the wedding cake will be the focus of your wedding. The caking cutting ceremony is in fact very meaningful and important because it is the first thing you do with your spouse as a married couple.
To this end, you will want to make your wedding cake beautiful. You will be spending the time to seek for a stylish wedding cake. Yet, the style is only one of the aspect you need to consider. There are also something practical you have to think about before you order your cake.
The budget will certainly affect your final choice. As a result, you need to have a realistic budget before you seek for your cake. First of all, you will think about the number of guests who will be attending your wedding. Then you will start considering the amount you will spend per head. This will give you the total amount you will be spending on the cake. You will need to know the average costs of it before you can set your budget. You should visit some online forums and discuss with other couples in order to gather more information about that.
The number of guests who will attend your wedding will also affect the size of your cake. You will need to let your baker know the number of guests so that you can create a cake in the right size. It will be a waste of both money and food if you create a cake which is too big. On the other hand, you may also consider creating some mini cakes so that eat mini cake will be served to every guest. In this case you will need to make sure that the number of mini cakes matches the number guests.
Let us go back to the point of the style of the wedding cake. You can have different options when this is concerned. Of course you can discuss with other couples on forums so that you can know more about the choice of the others. On the other hand, you will also read bridal magazines so that you can learn more about different styles. If you are going to work with a cake designer, you need to ensure that you have done some researches before you meet the designer so that he or she will understand your preference and your needs.
Considering the decorations of the cake, you will need to discuss with the baker wheat kind of decorations you will need. If you need to use fresh floral petals, you may need to discuss with your florist as well. However, you may still want to remove the petals before you serve the cake to the guests.
You will also need a good cake topper. There are different choices to this end. Of course you can always go for some traditional choices. On the other hand, there are also a lot of funny cake toppers you can choose from. However, you will need to spend some time to search for it.
TM Lung designs Unique Chinese Wedding Invitations. He has sites on Wedding Vendor Directory and Wedding Planning.
Three-Tier Whimsical Wedding Cake Design : Wedding Cake: Add Bead Trim to Bottom Tier
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Create beautiful wedding cake designs by using a disposable pastry bag with a coupler and larger writing tip to create a pearl effect for the trim. Add bead trim to the bottom tier when decorating a three-tier, whimsical wedding cake with tips from a professional cake designer in this free video on weddings. Expert: Melissa Maggiore Contact: www.AlessiBakeries.com. Bio: Melissa Maggiore is a professional cake designer for the Alessi Bakeries. With more than 15 years of wedding cake design experience she is responsible for completing over 450 wedding cakes a year. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
3 Tips to Lower the Costs of Your Wedding Cake
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Every wedding expert will tell you that the wedding cake is very important in your reception in a way that it will become one of the focus of the reception. First of all, your guests will see the cake when they arrive the reception hall. Besides, it is very common for brides and grooms to take plenty of photos with the guests in front of the cake. As a result, it will be essential for you to make the cake special and unique.
However, the wedding cake can also be very expensive. It can be even more expensive if you are planning to order a designer cake. Of course there are also some ways for you to lower the prices and costs of it. This will be beneficial if you need to be planing a wedding on a tight budget. To this end, you may probably guess that you will need to forgo the quality in order to save money! However, this is not the truth here. You can in fact at the same time save money and get an elegant cake. You can do it if you can spend the time to search for your wedding cake.
#1 The first way of saving money on the wedding cake is to adapt the idea of baking the cake yourself. You may think this is a crazy idea! Yes, it is very true that you may not be a baker yourself. However, you can attend to some baking classes a few months before your big day. To this end, you can learn the way to bake and you can make the cake yourself. It will be an interesting idea since your guests will be amazed when they know that you can bake the cake yourself!
#2 Yet, some brides and grooms can be very busy during the day and they may not have the time to learn how to bake. To this end, they may not be able to bake the wedding cake themselves. Besides, you may also think that you will be busy a few days before your big day. As a result, you may not have the time to bake the cake even if you are a baker. If this is the case, you may not want to bake the cake yourself. Instead, you may need to outsource the work!
However, you may not really need to hire a baker to this end. You can actually discuss with some students in the baking classes. They may be interested in doing the job with a relatively lower fee. Yet, be sure to allow some time for the candidate to bake the cake since they are still students.
#3 Even if you want to hire a baker, you can still save money be decorating the cake yourself. This can be a good option. You can ask your friends to help to this end. You may consider use some fresh flower petals to decorate the wedding cake. And it will not be difficult for you to adapt the idea of DIY.
TM Lung designs Wedding Invitations. He has sites on planning a wedding and Wedding Planning.
Cake Decorating : Wedding Cakes & Custom Cakes
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Wedding Cakes and Custom Cakes in Atlanta, GA!
DIY Wedding Cake: Secret Ingredient Is Love
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
DIY Wedding Cake: Secret Ingredient Is Love
It isn’t quick — or easy — but making a cake for someone’s wedding is a wonderful gift and a money-saver for the newlyweds. Food writer Nicole Spiridakis relays tips and recipes from her cake-crafting success story.
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