Wedding Cake Planning

One thing that I hate about setting up a wedding cake outdoors is the possibility that the bugs will find it. A cake that’s covered with gnats isn’t a pretty sight.  So when I set up the cake that was based on the Trevi Fountain I was interested in the net that they’d supplied for the […]

I see advice about getting fake cakes to reduce the cake budget all the time, and once again it’s a grey area. You might be able to save some money if you use a fake cake, but then again, it might end up costing you more. Just like the argument about getting sheet cakes to supplement

If you’re a bride at a wedding cake consultation, you need to make sure that the sketch that the baker does for you shows the cake tiers in the correct scale, based on the number of servings you need. This can be really important, because the sketch needs to look like the final cake, and

(Originally published in September of 2009, this shows how you can’t count on a serving count!) This photo comes courtesy of a baker who shall remain anonymous…  She posted the story on a cake discussion board that I read, and it was so horrifyingly funny I asked her if I could use it as an

Cutting a cake can be confusing because people refer to “wedding” vs. “party” serving sizes, and there are multiple ways to cut cakes efficiently. Because of that, cake serving charts can give very different counts as far as how many servings you get per tier.  How big is a cake serving supposed to be? The