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Wedding cake styles what is the best for you?

Occasionally the caterer will offer to supply the wedding cake, but more often than not the couple choose to use an independent cake maker. You may have a relative who has offered to make the cake, which can save a great deal of money; however, you will need to be happy with the result and if you have any doubts, perhaps you could ask them to bake some individual cookies iced with guest's names to use as place cards, instead of having the responsibility of the creating the culinary centrepiece of the day!

Wild and wacky designs

There are some incredible designs available: everything from individual fairy cakes, iced with the words 'Marry me', 'I love you', 'Flitched' and so on, arranged on tiered glass cake stands, to 5ft-high decadently wicked chocolate fudge cakes, covered in Belgian white chocolate and decorated with ornate cherubs cascading down the layers! Wedding cakes have become another way of expressing your own personalities. You may want to represent a particular interest or hobby you share as a couple, or recreate a significant event in your lives: such as using turtles and sea life to adorn an aqua green creation, perhaps, if you met while deep sea diving!
Hand-painted cakes to match pretty vintage china teacups for an old fashioned look and tiers of passion fruit, carrot and lemon cakes have taken the place of the traditional rich fruit cake, offering a fresher, tastier option for the modem bride and groom.

The croquemboucbe is often requested: a pyramid of choux buns, filled_ with fresh cream or creme patisserie, covered in spun sugar and chocolate – it is a truly wonderfully theatrical choice, but a horror to cut into, so let the experts do it behind the scenes.

Cake stands

Individual cup cakes, or fairy cakes arranged on a perspex or and cake stand create a stunning display each cake can be individually decorated to your colour scheme and theme. The tiered cake stands are available to hire or buy from catering equipment hire firms in a variety of styles and shapes, such as heart, petal, square and circle design. An average stand can hold up to 140 cakes as a seven-tier display, but this can be added to in order to create an amazing 20-tier skyscraper! Stands are available in a huge variety of shapes from three-tiered swans, 'S' shapes, 'C' shapes, step stands and so on.