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Make Your Own Wedding Cake

When you Make Your Own Wedding Cake for your special day, it will save you money but also make it more personal.



There are a lot of things to consider when you are thinking of making your own cake for your wedding.

You want it to turn out looking good and but you also want it to taste good for your invited guests.

Inside you have to think about the kind of Wedding Cake Recipes you want to use for the actual flavors of the cake and if you want to have any different flavored fillings inside.

When you make your own wedding cake you don't have to stick with just a white cake. Chocolate is becoming a very popular flavor or how about carrot with cream cheese icing or cheesecake.

Even if you decide on a white cake, you can surely spice it up with fillings such as cream, chocolate, raspberry, strawberry or lemon.

You also have to decide what kind of Cake Frosting you want to have on your cake. The most commonly used ones are buttercream icing and fondant icing. You can go here to see some great examples of .

What I do suggest, is that you try out different cake recipes and fillings a long time before your wedding so that you are comfortable with making the cake and get practice in before your big day. Not too much sampling though, you still want to be able to fit into your dress ;-)

You also have to decide if you want an Elegant Wedding Cake such as a Martha Stewart Wedding Cake, or if you want to go with a Simple Wedding Cake.

You might just be on a budget and so are looking for Cheap Wedding Cakes. In that case, you should check out Wedding Cake Prices to see what goes into the pricing of a wedding cake.

You also have to decide on the shape of the cake. There are many different shapes that your wedding cake can be including Square Wedding Cakes, Fountain Wedding Cakes, Heart Shaped Wedding Cakes, and don't forget that you could also have Cupcake Wedding Cakes.

If you are having a theme to your wedding you could also use it in your wedding cakes ideas such as, Western Wedding Cakes, Beach Theme Wedding Cakes, Unusual Wedding Cakes, Tropical Wedding Cakes, Fall Wedding Cakes, Christmas Wedding Cakes, and Exotic Wedding Cakes.

Sometimes a large part of the problem of making your own wedding cake is finding the proper professional supplies and accessories you will need to make your cake.

You can find these professional supplies at Wilton Wedding Cake Supplies.

Here are some great videos I found for you to watch to help you when you make your own wedding cake:

How to Tort, Level and Fill a Cake




How to Choose the Right Icing for your Cake




Covering a Cake with Fondant




Then to put your cake all together, you should watch Assembling Your Cake.

After you have assembled your cake, you will have to place Piping Seam Decoration in order to cover the seams between your cake layers.

Then, once your seams are all covered, you can start decorating your cake by Piping a Swag Decoration on your wedding cake.Last step is to decorate your cake by Piping Leave and Roses onto your cake as well as other decorations.


Making Buttercream Roses




Making Fondant Roses - Part One




Make Fondant Roses - Part Two




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