10 Tips For Making Your Own Wedding Cake

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Can you bake? Do you like baking? Do your cakes taste nice? Do they look pretty? And are you a calm and confident baker? These are all questions you need to ask yourself before you embark on baking your own wedding cake. The cake is by no means, the most important feature at your wedding. But if you’re going to ruin the day before, (or maybe even the day of) your wedding stressing about 

1. Be Practical

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how it looks, tastes or whether it’s raw in the middle, it really isn’t worth it.

1. Be Practical

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Don’t think that just because it’s your wedding you need to create something elaborate that you’ve never baked before, (each tier represents a native fruit indigenous to north east Cambodia), this isn’t the time to experiment. Use a tried and tested recipe and something that you know you can bake, and decorate with ease. For my sister’s wedding, I baked three tiers of my signature chocolate Guinness 

2. Keep Your Cake Simple

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cake. Nobody minded that all the tiers were the same, no one even noticed! If you make a mean pie, a legendary macaroon, or a champion cheesecake, why not do that instead? Who says a wedding cake has to be three tiers coated in white icing?

2. Keep Your Cake Simple

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Do as much prep in advance as you can. Even if you’ve made this cake 100 times before, if you’ve never made it in such quantities, be sure to do at least one trial run (your friends and family will be only too happy to test it for you!) Don’t leave shopping for your ingredients to the day of the bake, have as much as possible prepped in advance. If you can do your bake early, even better, fruit cakes and 

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biscuit cakes often last longer, so these are great for baking several days before your wedding.

3. Prep In Advance

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Only bake your own wedding cake for the right reasons. If you’re doing it because you can’t afford a fancy bakery one, either go without a cake (no one will mind, and many won’t even notice!) or opt for a simple supermarket cake and add some decorations. You could also ask a friend to bake it, or request any bakers among your guests to bring along different bakes for the dessert table. Only bake your wedding cake because it’s 

4. Do It for The Right Reasons

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something you’ll really enjoy doing, not simply to save cash or impress your guests with all you managed to do yourself – seriously, it’s not worth the stress and hassle!

4. Do It for The Right Reasons

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One. Uno. Singular. If you’ll have a house full of people in the days before your wedding, maybe clear them out for the day, or borrow a friend’s kitchen for your cake prep. While it’s advisable to have someone on hand to wash mixing bowls or in case you get a phone call, having too many people hanging over you while you create your masterpiece, will only stress you out.

5. Enlist a Helper

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While I suggest you clear the kitchen of people, you should also clear it of clutter too. Our homes get filled up with stuff before a wedding, so no boutonniere pins, no wedding cards, and no last-minute DIY projects. Having a clear workspace will make your bake run so much smoother. You don’t want to realise too late you forgot to add the vanilla because it was hidden under a pile of ribbons.

6. Clear The Kitchen

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Set aside a whole day to make your cake. Yes, an entire day of no appointments, no dinner plans, no “just nipping out to pick up…”. While you might be able to time your bake, you won’t be able to account for decoration, and if you rush it, it won’t look right. I spent about three hours icing and coconut-covering my friend’s Pineapple Pina Colada wedding cake. I thought it would take an hour, 

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max. But when it’s such an important cake, even the most laid-back baker can become a meticulous perfectionist. Oh, and tip 7.5 – be sure to let the cake cool before you add the icing!

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If you’re nervous that your bake will look amateur, remember that the key is in the decoration.  Even if you missed a spot on the icing, once you’ve added your final touches, it will look the part. My sister’s wedding cake didn’t really look “weddingy” until I added the Mr & Mrs topper, while the most plain cake will look utterly polished with some blooms on top. It doesn’t matter if it’s 

8. Do It With Decoration

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Mississippi mud pie or a twelve tiered sponge, add flowers, foliage, a cake topper or a fancy stand, and you’ll have yourself a wedding cake! (P.S. look to the naked cakes and simply decorated cakes throughout this post for inspiration.)

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One of the best things about hiring a professional baker, is that they’ll often handle the daunting task of transporting your cake to your wedding venue. Before you assemble your finished cake, think about the logistics; whether it should travel in pre-built tiers, or as separate cakes, will a cake tin do, or will you need bigger boxes, and who will you enlist to do it?

9. Think About The Transportation

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It’s perhaps best if you can drop it off at the venue the night before, and do your assembling then. But whatever you do, please don’t travel with it on your lap in your wedding car. Especially if it’s chocolate!

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Finally, even the best laid plans and the most accomplished bakers have an off day, (I mean, have you seen Great British Bake-Off?). So know when to call it a day, and have a back up plan. Know what grocery stores sell plain white cakes, have your local cupcake shop on speed dial, or whip up some fairy buns. No baking disaster however big or small was enough to halt a wedding

10. Have a Back-up Plan

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