Archive for June, 2011

Cool Wedding Cakes

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

If you have been baking since your brownies days and shifting towards tricky wedding cakes, there are a lot of things you should before you embark on this baking career. Basic baking classes can start you off in the right direction but if you content yourself with textbook knowledge and don’t roll up your sleeves, you can’t be the best wedding cake baker. Learning to bake the super cake prepares you to bake your own four-tier cake.

So you want to try baking wedding cakes? Whether it is for business or a preparation for your own wedding, baking great cakes can be lucrative and rewarding. Before starting out, master the basic butter and white recipes. Try new recipes, such as the Italian Light Coconut Cake and other cake recipes for prospective customers who might request cakes generally baked back home – Mexican cakes, German chocolate cake, strawberry shortcakes, and cheesecakes.

While learning different recipes for wedding cakes, shop for different baking equipments. Cake recipes call for specific baking utensils and equipment. Making do with what you have may not yield the best results so prepare to invest heavily in quality baking utensils and equipment. You will need food processors, different sized baking pans, custom-made pans, two heavy duty cake mixers, on top of the oven. To save on money, buy your mixers and food processors direct from the manufacturer or distributor.

Various cake decorating tools that can handle wear and tear are best additions for the baking collection. Familiar brands of these items can be bought online or from the super mart. All baking tools and equipment should be kept scrupulously clean. Pans should not rust or have dents. Everything must be in perfect condition for each baking session.

Baking Your Own Wedding Cake

Wedding cakes are baked days before the wedding. Baking a four or five layer cake is best baked three days before the wedding. The final touches can be a day before wedding day. Baking four or five cakes in different sizes can take you an entire day; icing and decorating one or two days. So time your schedule to have your very own ready for the reception.

During the first day, that’s the baking day, cakes should be cooled for thirty minutes before these are removed from the pans. To remove, carefully run a knife around the pans’ insides and turn the pans upside down to slide cakes out. When the cakes are completely cooled, cover with foil until you are ready to assemble the cakes.

If you cake recipe calls for filling, use a serrated knife to cut cake into equal layers. This is tricky so do this slowly lest the cake should break. The fun part starts when you ice and decorate the cake. If you are copying wedding cakes designs from magazines, be sure to have everything ready and ribbons measured and pre-cut. The day before the wedding do the icing and decorating. Make sure that people transporting your cake to the reception secures the cake in position. Final touches can be done at the venue by a friend or the hotel’s chief baker.

Custom Wedding Cake

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Is it kind of jerry to choose an “el cheapo” cake tops made of plastic even if you are on a very limited budget? What you should know is the topper is not only an eye catcher of all people in the wedding, sometimes it can be treated as a treasure of family to pass down generation by generation. Your children even might be proud to put the toppers on their cake, since it is a good connection of two generations.

So choose carefully about your wedding tops. With special design that making the toppers to reflect your personality. With colors that absolutely stunning, unique and beautiful. Nothing more unique than a custom wedding top can reflect your personality better. For customized cake toppers you can specify any detail, any shape, any color to match your wedding theme perfectly, and in the meanwhile it would be really hard to get the same effect by a normal topper.

Many websites provide custom made cake toppers nowadays on the Internet. The products look cute and adorable and meet the requirement of wide variety of themes from generic to unique including beach theme toppers, fall theme toppers and diving theme toppers.

No matter what theme you choose for your wedding, choosing a wedding topper to match your wedding theme perfectly is always an important thing. Be sure to make the toppers reflecting your personality, taste or even career…You will be surprised on the amount of comment and compliments you get on how beautiful the wedding cake topper is.

White Wedding Cakes!

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

There is so much you can do with a black and white cake. It can be a simple white tiered cake with some black piping or simple black monogram airbrushed or painted onto the fondant. For a bold and contemporary black and white cake, you can include a pattern of stripes, plaid, or a checker board effect. There are no rules that say you have to have white icing, shock your guests and reverse it. Have a black iced cake with white detail on it. Either way, the contrast of black and white is timeless, elegant, and always stunning.

What’s black and white with a pop of red, pink, or yellow? Your cake! If you want to add a pop of color it will only enhance the look of your black and white cake without taking away from the theme. Just about anything will match these two shades and adding a ribbon of a bright or subtle color will really make your cake stand out.

Think about flavors that are black and white to incorporate into your themed cake. Although you may not want to actually include black licorice on your cake or maybe you do, you can still include the taste with some licorice liqueur soaked sponge cake. This can be a strong flavor so definitely have a tasting to see if it suits your own taste buds before serving it to your guests. Another dark flavor to consider including is espresso. For real coffee lovers, you can even have some crushed espresso beans mixed in with the filling. Flavors like marshmallow, coconut, and basic whipped cream are all white and flavorful that can sit between layers of a dark chocolate cake.