How to Save Money on Your Wedding Cake

·      You can opt for a smaller wedding cake and purchase sheet cakes

as a less expensive option to serve all your wedding guests

·      Your cake doesn’t have to be real, just one slice does. If you’re not

serving your wedding cake to your guests then have a Styrofoam

cake decorated and have one piece be real or a cake behind the fake

cake to do the traditional cake cutting

·      If you’re not serving your wedding cake for dessert you don’t need

to order one slice per person because if you’re serving it on your

midnight buffet not everyone will eat it

·      Many venues do charge a cake cutting fee/plating fee to serve a

cake not made by their catering staff

·      Use cardboard circles stacked together to give your cake the desired height you want, or you can purchase a cake stand from companies such as Raise the Cake. www.raisethecake.com 

·      Decorate the dummy cake just like a real cake

·      Want more servings then make your base larger or add satellite

Cakes (mini wedding cakes) which makes the cake table look extravagant

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Photo Taken by Absolute Love Photography

Storing Your Top Tier for Your First Anniversary

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• Remove decorations or anything that could break • Don’t let it rest on cardboard because it will then taste like cardboard

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• Put cake in freezer as is for 20 minutes so that it won’t stick to the plastic wrap then take it out and completely cover it in plastic wrap (airtight) • Wrap in 2 layers of heavy duty aluminum foil to protect from freezer burn

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• Defrost the cake 1 day before serving in your fridge • After 2 hours remove the wrapping and continue to defrost

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• Let it rest at room temperature before serving • You can have a new layer of icing added to make it look pretty again

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All photos courtesy of Tres Belle Cakes - an awesome wedding and speciality cake baker in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Your Wedding Cake (and non-cake) Options

Why not be different and veer away from the traditional by offering your guests a non cake dessert option at your wedding such as: • Cupcakes

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• Chocolate mousse • Petit fours • Dessert buffet

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• Chocolate fountain • Chocolate bar- hot chocolate, chocolate covered coffee beans, chocolate sticks, everything chocolate • Crocumbroche- traditional French pastry formed into a ball and structured into a cone with spun sugar over top • Individual mini cakes for each person Who Will Eat Your Cake? • Serve at desert • Midnight buffet • Boxes to take home

How to Save Money When Purchasing Your Wedding Cake

• You can opt for a smaller wedding cake and purchase a sheet cake as a less expensive option to serve all your wedding guests. • Your cake doesn’t have to be real, just one slice does. If you’re not serving your wedding cake to your guests then have a Styrofoam cake decorated and have one piece be real or a cake behind the fake cake to do the traditional cake cutting. • If you’re not serving your wedding cake for dessert you do not need to order one slice per person because if you’re serving it at the end of the night, not everyone will eat it • Most venues do charge a cake cutting fee/ plating fee to serve a cake not made by their catering staff • Use cardboard circles stacked together to give your cake the desired height you want, or you can purchase a cake stand from companies such as Raise the Cake. www.raisethecake.com

Raise the Cake

• Decorate the dummy cake just like a real cake • Want more servings then make your base larger or add mini wedding cakes which makes the cake table look extravagant