The Perfect Celebration Cake

You may already know exactly how you’d like your cake to look, what you want it to taste like, and how big it needs to be. But in case you don’t, the following may help you towards your decision:

Things to Consider

Types & Flavours of Cake
These include traditional rich fruitcake, golden Madeira, sumptuous chocolate and other deliciously flavoured sponges, and moist, fruity carrot cake. If you are having more than one tier, why not choose a combination of flavours?
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Icings & Fillings
Madeira and other sponge-type cakes can be filled with your choice of vanilla or flavoured buttercream, quality preserves or chocolate mousse.

Rich fruitcakes are covered with a layer of marzipan, and then coated with soft sugarpaste icing, or the firmer, more traditional royal icing. Madeira and sponge cakes are covered with sugarpaste icing over a layer of buttercream or marzipan.

Totally chocolate cakes can be covered with plain, milk or white chocolate couverture, rich dark ganache, chocolate marzipan, sugarpaste icing, chocolate curls, fans, flakes, handmade chocolate roses, and more. See if you can resist our Heavenly Creations in Chocolate!
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Colour Schemes & Themes
Icings, ribbons and other decorations can all be matched to your chosen colour scheme. Delicate sugar flowers can be hand made to co-ordinate with a bouquet, and we can even design a cake to reflect the style and fabric of a wedding dress, or to follow a chosen theme.
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Shape, Design & Decoration
The following are all popular shapes for celebration cakes - the choice is yours. With multi-tiered cakes, 2 or more shapes can often be combined very effectively.

With design and decoration, the possibilities are limitless. Choose from realistically beautiful handmade flowers, delicate piping and lacework, hand-painting, modelling, fabric effects, texturing and much more.

Please look at our “Inspirational Civil Partnership Cake Designs”, “Handmade Sugar Flowers”, and “Special Occasion Cakes” for just some of the ways to enhance your cake. Then let your imagination go!
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Ways to Display
The assembly and display of a wedding cake is as important as its shape, colour and design. These days, ‘stacked’ cakes are very popular, but the options for display are virtually endless, and the following can all be used to very good effect:

Pillars	Dividers
Separators	Candlesticks
Multi-tiered stands	Glassware
Base stands	Porcelain

For more options and suggestions please look at “Inspirational Civil Partnership Cake Designs”.
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Size of Cakes & Number of Tiers
I will be happy to help you work out how much cake you will need, if you’d like to contact me with the number of your guests. But be assured, this needn’t restrict your choice of cake design, or the number of tiers you would like to have.

If you have more guests than your ideal cake could accommodate, I can provide additional “cutting cake” to make up the extra portions. Conversely, if the cake you'd love to have would provide too many portions for your wedding party, one or more tiers could be “dummy” cakes, which would be indistinguishable from the other real tiers, but wouldn’t be cut and served.
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In Summary
I hope the above has been helpful, but please browse through the rest of my website for more ideas and information. And please do contact me if I can be of further help. If you live within reach of Rochester in Kent, please come and see me at my sugarcraft gallery, “Icinghouse”, situated close by the historic city centre - Find us.
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