How do I make a wedding cake?

Question

I'm going to make a wedding cake for a friend of mine cause her budget is practically nothing. I need info on how to do it...everything helps!

Answer 1

check out the wedding cake section on http://budgetdreamweddings.com for some great tips, articles and links that might help. I just finished doing two wedding cakes for my sister's wedding.

Answer 2

I don't like that previous answer, its rather smug.

Not everyone has a big budget, so here's my "Costco Solution":

You can easily make a 2-layer round cake with 2 different sized pans (perhaps an 8" and a 10"). this is going to be the cake that the Newlyweds cut into at the reception. The next step is "Constructing the Fake Cake" using sheets of cardboard, cutting your next successive layers of round tiers. You want to fabricate those Fake Layers in a manner that approximates the width of the first 2 layers. Once you have your frame, 12", 15", 18", this is going to be trimmed out with waxed paper, plastic, &/or duct tape. These three "Fake Layers" will be liberally iced with cheap buttercream frosting, colored to look the same as the top two layers you baked for real.

More & more couples these days prefer "Chocolate On Chocolate" cakes...you aren't stuck with the traditional white any more.

In the back room, you'll have your "Sheet Cakes" ready to cut up, after the Bride & Groom make their "Ceremonial Cutting"

The great thing about the "Fake Cake" is how real it looks, once you decorate the darn thing. Make sure the icing on the "fake" layers is like "concrete", it needs to get hard enough to hold up to the elements!

Good luck with your friend's wedding.....

Answer 3

You go to a bakery with $150....
If you are that strapped you shouldn't be getting married.

Answer 4

http://www.wilton.com/wedding/recipes/index.cfm

http://www.a-weddingday.com/recipes/recipes.html

http://www.a-weddingday.com/recipes/recipes.html