Choosing Your Wedding Cake

Choosing your wedding cake – tips from Lee Berryman Pastry Chef – Cake Designs

Your wedding cake can reflect and enhance the theme of your wedding, whether you choose a cake decorated with traditional sugar icing or white chocolate or dark chocolate.

There are many different styles of wedding cakes to choose from, tiered cakes, modern tower cake, cup cakes, small square individuals and the popular croquembouche.

Serving sizes

You may wish to serve your cake for dessert, preferring a dessert style cake flavour such as white mud raspberry cake or chocolate mud cake layered with dark chocolate ganache, then finished with a white chocolate ganache icing.
If your venue is already providing dessert, you will require coffee serves, this is a small finger serve of cake to be served after the meal with coffee, you can choose less rich cakes such as citrus coconut, white mud or fruit cake.

Cup cakes are great to use for after the meal with coffee or they can be placed in boxes and taken home by your guests.

You may wish to keep the top tier of your cake, traditionally for your first Anniversary, a popular alternative is to catch with family and friends the day after the wedding for coffee and cake or a barbeque and use the top tier.

Using my experience and an exceptional catalogue of trusted recipes collected from my years as a pastry chef in five star resorts and international hotels, I can create you the perfect wedding cake.

Your wedding cake is the most important cake you will ever have, so it is important that it not only looks amazing but it also tastes divine.

What’s hot in cakes this season

Classical designs with smooth white or ivory sugar icing, finished with diamante or pearls with a large sugar or fresh flower, such as the Dior design

Tiered cakes finished with a light textured white chocolate ganache icing, decorated with fresh flowers, such as St Moritz design.

The traditional French wedding cake the croquembouche is very popular this year. Profiteroles can be filled with liqueur flavoured custard or chocolate mousse, And then dipped in dark or white chocolate and decorated with small fresh flowers.