How To Make Your Own Wedding Cake – You Bet You
Can Do It
Author: Amy K. Spade

Making your own wedding cake can be a great way to cut down on
the overall budget of a wedding. It will take time and effort,
but a well-intentioned aunt or cousin might love to take on the
challenge for you.

Choosing the cake

Just like when you have a professional make your cake for you,
enlisting some relative help also needs a plan. You can go to
many books of weddings cakes for more intricate guidelines or
just look at pictures in magazines. Try to find something
simple, but also something that you think would be perfect for
your wedding's theme.

When you think that you're found what you like, try to
determine how many tiers it has and what decorations you want
to add. With these things in mind, you can begin to plan out
the building of your wedding cake.

Making plans

Looking at the picture of the cake that you'd like, try to
break it down in your mind. Figure out the number of tiers it
has (perhaps you need more or less) so that you can determine
how many baking pans you will need. After that, you will want
to see how many tubes of icing or jars of frosting you will
need to complete the decorations. A lot of the time, you may
find that ordering a traditional cake is the same expense.

If you're determined to make your cake, the best suggestion is
to make a trial one. Even if it's just one layer, you want to
try out your plan to see if the one that you have chosen can be
recreated.

Bake a layer of the cake (any old cake mix will do, but you may
want to go with the name brands for your wedding) and set it
aside to cool. You want to make sure that the cake is
completely cooled before putting any icing on it because warm
cake will cause the icing to melt.

Apply the icing with a pastry spatula like you might apply
spackle on a wall. Take your time to smooth out all the areas.
Pretend like this is the real cake and see what it looks like.
If you're impressed (and of course, after you're tasted it),
then go ahead and get the ingredients to make an entire cake.

Your wedding cake will be best if you make it the day before so
that everything has time to settle and no one has to rush around
to bake on the day of. Set aside a special room or area so that
it will remained untouched and out of the way. You may even
want someone to transport it to its final location first thing
in the morning to avoid any rushing about.


About The Author: Amy Spade is an expert on planning weddings,
and she has written an amazing totally free minicourse on how
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