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10 Tips to Make a Wedding Cake
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Nov 18, 2024
From the moment I got engaged I knew I wanted to make my own wedding cake. It turns out there’s a lot more to it than you might expect! So here are 10 tips to help you successfully make a wedding cake, from tastings to timelines, making white buttercream, transporting wedding cakes and more! 💫Start your FREE 7 day trial on my cake school https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/p/all-you-can-cake/ 🌟Join the waitlist for my course on content creation https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/content-creator-course-waiting-list/ 🎂LEARN The Basics of Cake and The Basics of Buttercream in my most popular online courses! https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/ 👩🏼🍳My 4 Minute Buttercream recipe https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/buttercream-frosting/ 🎥How to Price Cakes https://youtu.be/w4S88xdDsTg?si=90n2BL2QGyrw6Qrj 📄READ a written version of this tutorial (with photos!) https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/10-tips-for-how-to-make-a-wedding-cake/
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from the moment I got engaged 11 years
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ago I knew I wanted to make my own
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wedding cake which I did but there's a
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lot more to making wedding cakes than
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you might expect so here are 10 tips to
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help you successfully make a wedding
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cake of course wedding cakes need to be
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beautiful but they also need to taste
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delicious so before the big day it's
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important that the couple taste
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different options of cakes fillings and
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frosting when I had a cake shop I would
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provide cupcake versions of my cake menu
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for customers to try before choosing the
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flavor for their cake or set up a mini
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cupcake tasting session which was really
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popular for wedding cakes I made mini
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cakes of each flavor which are a lot
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more timec consuming to make but they're
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also more formal and they're a more
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accurate representation of the cake to
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filling to frosting ratio if you make
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lots of wedding cakes and do lots of
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tastings you might choose to bake entire
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cakes and slice them up and give couples
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a slice of each flavor and then you can
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wrap up the remaining slices in two
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layers of cling film or plastic wrap
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each and freeze them until the next
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tasting once you know the date of the
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wedding and the details of the cake
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you'll need to establish a timeline
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wedding cakes can take several days to
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make depending on the flavors size and
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decorations you'll need to shop for all
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of your ingredients you will already
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have brought any cake decorating tools
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you'll need and packaging supplies then
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a few days before the wedding you might
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make your fillings and frosting and on
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the next day you might bake your cake
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layers on the next day you might
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assemble your cakes and frost them and
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stack them if it's a tear cake and then
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on the next day you might add
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decorations which could be the morning
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of the wedding depending on what those
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decorations are for tear cakes you'll
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typically want every tier to be the same
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height which is easiest to get right
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before you assemble the cake by stacking
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the layers for each tier side by side to
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check their all the same height trim any
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of the layers Now using a serrated knife
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if you need to make any of the cakes a
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bit shorter if you're not going to serve
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the cake on the same day you bake it
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which is almost always the case for
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wedding cakes since they take so long to
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make I really recommend using simple
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syrup on your cakes this keeps cakes
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moist it doesn't make them soggy and it
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also won't make a dry cake moist it just
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prolongs the fresh texture of a cake use
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equal parts of sugar and water this is a
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cup of each and bring to a simmer to
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dissolve the sugar and then let it cool
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that's it as you drizzle or brush it
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over your cake layers pay special
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attention to the edges of the cakes
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because those will dry out the quickest
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wedding cakes are traditionally white
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which can be problematic for buttercream
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made with butter which is yellow you
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have a few options to make buttercream
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white you can add Violet gel which will
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cancel out the yellow tint with just a
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tiny amount dipping a toothpick into the
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bottle is the safest Choice rather than
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trying to squeeze a very small drop and
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accidentally ending up with purple
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buttercream for really white buttercream
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use vegetable shortening like Crisco or
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trexx and if the cake is going to be on
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a white tablecloth this is the best
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option because even slightly off-white
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buttercream will look yellow compared to
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a bright white background if the cake
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will be on a wooden tablet toop or a
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colored tablecloth using butter with a
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bit of violet should be fine as a bonus
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if the wedding is outside in warm
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weather and you don't want your cake to
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melt like this using shortening in your
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buttercream will make it more stable
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than just butter whatever decorations
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you're adding to the cake it's
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definitely a good idea to practice them
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before making the actual wedding cake
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this doesn't mean you have to make an
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exact replica as a trial run which would
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be a huge investment of time and
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ingredients instead you can practice
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each element on different cakes assuming
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you have months to prepare for the
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wedding cake practice stacking another
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tear cake or ideally several until you
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feel really confident practice using
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cake stencils on another cake for
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another occasion before you use a
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stencil on the wedding cake practice
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borders using the same size and shape
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piping tip to get used to the technique
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and any other piped details you'll learn
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the amount of pressure you need to use
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when you squeeze the Piping Bag the
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wrist motion the position that's most
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comfortable for you and so on so that by
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the time you pipe onto the wedding cake
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you're not trying to figure out all of
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those things my very first wedding cake
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was for one of my best friends and I had
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never made a tear cake before so I
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practiced on a tea party cake for
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another friend and this snowman cake
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just to get some practice on how to
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stack a tear cake okay next up sometimes
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people want a five tier cake for their
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very small wedding and in these
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situations cake dummies are really
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useful to prevent huge amounts of
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uneaten cake and also to save money use
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these fake cakes for extra tears
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decorating them as if they were real
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cake and no one will ever know what's
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really inside
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for fresh flowers wait until the day of
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the wedding if possible so that the
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flowers don't Wilt and group flowers
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together in little bunches and wrap the
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straws in plastic wrap or cling film to
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prevent floral juices leaking out into
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the cake poke them into straws like
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these wide Boba straws trimming them to
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the length of the stems which should
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only be 1 or 2 in and then push them
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into the cake you can buy these flour
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cake spikes instead which do the same
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thing refrigerate cakes until you
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transport them to the the wedding venue
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to keep the frosting firm and the tears
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stable enough for the journey when you
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transport the cake choose a flat surface
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like the boot or trunk of the car or the
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foot well in front of the passenger seat
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not any of the seats in the car because
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those are sloped at an incline for tear
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cakes it's especially important to be on
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a flat surface so that they don't lean
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or slide or topple over as you can see
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making a wedding cake is a lot of work
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so if this isn't a gift make sure you
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price your wedding cakes to make a
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profit instead of losing money I have a
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very detailed free tutorial on how to
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price your cakes with all of the
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watching for the behindth scenes footage
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I had to do this in one day because I
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and I had a sick toddler at home with me
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all week so I got up at 5:30 before the
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kids typed out the title that had been
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running through my head all night and
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wrote down some bullet points of the
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tips I wanted to include in this video
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next the most timec consuming part I
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then filled in my script with all of the
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include all of the important details so
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