Wedding Cakes

Confection perfection depends on a clear vision of your cake design and good
commmunication with your baker. The following terns you need to know in order to make sure you're on the same page when it ccomes to the cake.

Basketweave: A popular pattern for wedding cakes. Most often, white on
white creations that is made using piping techniques interweaving vertical and horizontal lines resembling a basket weave.

Buttercream: Your wedding cake with butter cream is a mix of butter, sugar, and eggs that makes a delicious filling and rich icing. Watch the temperature: If buttercream isn't kept cool, it can melt.

Dotted Swiss: A piped pattern for your wedding cake made with masses of tiny dots resembling dotted swiss fabric.

Fondant: A chewy, sweet sugar dough that's rolled out and wrapped around each tier of your wedding cake. It is an ideal icing for outdoor receptions as fondant does not need to be refrigerated.

Royal Icing: A blend of egg whires and sugar, which forms a thick frosting that can be used for lace and laticework. The royal icing wedding cake should not be refrigerated because, when dry, the texture becomes hard and brittle.

Whipped Cream: This light, delicious filling or frosting is a very delicate style for your wedding cake. use only if you are able to have your cake refrigerated until just before it is served.

Wedding Food

Wedding food can have such a wide variety of possibilities that we could literally write a book about wedding food. A small wedding at home will often have the bride and her family planning and cooking the food. Often brides think they save money by cooking themselves but in the scheme of things sometimes that is not the case. Many caterers prepare fancy wedding food that is easily purchased and served as though you had prepared it yourself. If you are having your wedding at a large hotel, the wedding food can have the sky as the limit for fine dinging. Usually your wedding food selection is one of the bride and grooms favorite food and sometimes foods that they ate on their first date. Hotel wedding food can go from a simple hors d'oeuvres selection to an elaborate 7 course meal. Your wedding food selected will certainly be a meal you will never forget.

Wedding Cake

Television shows that specialize in wedding cakes has certaily changed the way we think about a wedding cake. You can take your favorite hobby or maybe a theme on where you met and build your wedding cake around that theme. Any color in frosting is acceptable and the wedding cake can still be traditional depending on what you put inside the cake. Whatever you do, be creative and have epople rave about the wedding cake that you had for your wedding.