On how to make your own wedding cake

There are literally hundreds of amazing cake recipes out there. It all depends on you! You can choose any of the recipes or mix and match them to create your very own 3 tier personal cake. Since the choice is virtually endless, this post does not fantasize any particular recipe. Here, you get to soak in the thrill of making your own wedding cake in full flavor!

Just a pro tip: any cake you make, wear an apron. It is going to be messy if you are new. Experienced bakers also wear aprons! It gets messy with them too! In addition, you may need some practice. Check out the time mentioned in the recipe you choose. Some great three-tier cake recipes include the lacey bluish Amaretto Cream cake, the Blackberry cake with cream blossoms, and the Almond Cream Peach cake. Look out for great YouTube videos and tutorials. Also, there are aplenty picture tutorials on baking your own cake!

Why you should make your own wedding cake

Why? It is YOUR wedding, for Christ’s sake! It is the most intimate and special commitment you agree to enter. Every girl knows how difficult it is to find a man who loves her truly! Girls also know how difficult it is to give her to one true man in body and mind! Wedding is a communion of souls! It is intimate and most private. If you are a perfectionist and an idealist, you always choose the Do-It-Yourself route.

Besides, there is the delight! The amazement of creating a sensuous cake immerses you (quite literally) in the sexy world of cream, vanilla, strawberry, dark chocolate, and sweetness. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to make a wedding cake. Anyone can do it with a little bit of practice. However, if you are a rocket scientist by profession, and your wedding is close, go ahead and bake your own cake.

Just wake and bake and stay busy in secretly licking your fingertips when no one is watching. Smile to yourself and laugh a lot with the bridesmaids sharing the mushy stories of wedding nights! It can also be an amazing bonding time with sisters, mothers, daughter, and grandmothers. They may have the experience. Making your own wedding cake is going to be an amazing time for sure!

It is exciting beyond anything to get into the wedding mood. Chat up with your fiancé/fiancée on how the cake is progressing. You can also choose to keep a whole thing a surprise for him/her. You will love the frequent trips to the bakery store. They sort of have an arsenal of lovely things to make cakes. You can get the icing blades; molding sticks, crimping tools, and molds to make an amazing range of decorations. Heck, you can even get tiny skull molds if that is what you want on your wedding cake! A black chocolate cake with creamy skulls does sound the perfect idea for a gothic wedding.

Finally, there is the economy. Women are homemakers and the mistresses of spending. Girls know the nice ways to save and spend! Making your own cake can save you quite a handy amount. Okay, it may not also; but that does not matter! What a matter is you make the cake with your own hands. Your love and desires enrich the cake.

Finally…

Obviously, you will try the best to create the most amazing three-tier cake. However, unless you have good baking experience, it may not be as you expect. For example, the tiers may tilt slightly, or the shape may be a little asymmetrical in the tiers. Do not fret on the setbacks and give your best try.

Here are a few tips to make your wedding cake at home:

1. Choose A Flavour That You Love

Don’t get stuck to the traditional white cake. Experiment with flavour and colour. Fruitcake is the traditional choice, and has the advantage of being made in advance, but chocolate, lemon and vanilla are becoming popular. Plan a different flavour for each tier of your cake so it appeals to everyone.

2. Deciding On Shape & Tiers

You have to choose between square or round shape. A round cake is much easier to do icing on. You may have to buy or borrow the appropriate cake tins. A three-tier wedding cake is traditional and can feed 100 guests. If you want to cater to a big wedding, you can bake an additional tier and leave it in the kitchen to be served to your guests later.

3. Recipe

Find a recipe that is in your comfort zone. Do not experiment with new recipes. Get plenty of practice for baking your favourite recipe. It is good to serve cake, which you usually bake at home.

4. Divide Your Work

Spread out your work into batches. Making cakes for 150 guests appears to be daunting, but you can make the task simpler by dividing the work into batches. You only need to make 15 batches of a normal cake recipe. Alternatively, do two each for every day in a week or use bigger cake pans.

5. Try Freezing

Some cakes taste better with aging. Wrap your cakes in plastic and foil and freeze till the wedding day. On the big day, defrost at room temperature. Be sure to try and defrost one cake in advance before the D-day so that you know how much time is required for the cake to defrost.

6. Use Whipped Cream

Even if you ditch frosting, you can get the stacked look by stacking with stiff whipped cream in between the layers. Make the whipped cream the night before and stabilize it with gelatine.

7. Be Generous With Decorations

You can add decorative touches to the cake. Take the help of professional or search online for ideas.

8. Simplify The Presentation

Unless you are stacking the cake with whipped cream, forget pillars and expensive building materials. Instead, use a couple of pretty cake plates and stands and serve different layers separately.

9. Decorating The Cake

You have many options to decorate a cake. The simplest way is to wrap a ribbon around the bottom. You can also decorate the cake with fresh flowers or crystallized rose petals.

10. Order Cake Online

If you still find baking your own wedding cake at home daunting, you can opt for cake delivery online. This will save you a messy and tiring task of baking at home.