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Making Your Own Bridal Shower
Cake
Not everyone has bridal shower cakes at their own celebration,
but they can make a stunning finishing touch to a wonderful
evening. Professionally made cakes can be quite expensive, but
there are ways that you can get around this cost if you ask
around.
If you’d like a cake at your own do, then you can ask whoever
is organizing it to look out for a good source to solve the
problem. If there are a lot of people going, one of them might
have the necessary skills to make bridal shower cakes with no
problem at all.
What Kind of Cake?
This is the first question you need to
answer. The main choices are fruit cake, which tends to be
quite rich, and sponge cake, which can be a little sweet for
some people. If the cake is going to have more than one tier
then you can make one tier of each type, so that everyone will
get to try the type of bridal shower cakes they like the
most.
What About the Design?
Decorating bridal shower cakes can often be the hardest part.
If you are going to do this part yourself it might be worth
visiting a cake shop to see what accessories are available for
decorating bridal shower cakes, as these can make life a lot
easier.
The decoration is basically split into two parts – any physical
decoration you add to it, such as small figures to represent
the bride and her intended, and writing. You can buy writing
icing now which makes this job a lot easier, but it’s still
easier if you have a practice first, prior to icing the cake
itself.
Transporting the Cake to the Venue
If you are making the cake for someone else, you need to ensure
you can get it safely to the venue for the occasion without the
bride to be seeing it. Make sure you arrive early and keep the
cake on a proper cake board so that it doesn’t get spoilt and
is easier to carry.
If there are going to be staff at the venue you can leave it
with them, but only on the proviso that they will know exactly
what to do and when, and it will be kept in a safe place.
Bridal shower cakes can add an extra touch of finesse to any
shower, and they can provide that extra special touch at the
end of a successful evening.
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