Wedding Cake from M & S

ladypinkof66

Please can anyone help I was going to get a professional person to make my cake however i have been thinking and was thinking now of going for M & S cakes as i only want round sponge cakes with ivory icing.
however my problem is i dont want to go for any pillars and was just hoping to have the style of cake where the top cake is placed ontop the bottom one - just wondering how this works.

also can you buy normal ribbon to place around the outside. i am buying a decoration for the top and just wanted to know about the cake.

can anyone offer any advice please.

Sagaris

We had the 3 tier chocolate cake from M&S, it was in 3 seperate boxes when we collected it, our venue assembled it one tier directly on the next for us.

Just make sure you collect it a few days before you need it and that the boxes are left open for the icing to fully harden - I'm assuming it's royal icing and not fondant?

ladypinkof66

Sagaris wrote: »

We had the 3 tier chocolate cake from M&S, it was in 3 seperate boxes when we collected it, our venue assembled it one tier directly on the next for us.

Just make sure you collect it a few days before you need it and that the boxes are left open for the icing to fully harden - I'm assuming it's royal icing and not fondant?

how much did you pay for your cake if you dont mind me asking

nat82

Hi!

This is the link to M&S wedding cakes:

http://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0/275-4967596-3404839?ie=UTF8&rs=42966030&isFromFinder=0&keywords=wedding%20cake&mnSBrand=core&size=9&rh=n%3A42966030%2Ck%3Awedding%20cake%2Cn%3A51458031&page=1

Sorry I don't know how to do short links!

x x x

flea72

ladypinkof66 wrote: »

Please can anyone help I was going to get a professional person to make my cake however i have been thinking and was thinking now of going for M & S cakes as i only want round sponge cakes with ivory icing.
however my problem is i dont want to go for any pillars and was just hoping to have the style of cake where the top cake is placed ontop the bottom one - just wondering how this works.

also can you buy normal ribbon to place around the outside. i am buying a decoration for the top and just wanted to know about the cake.

can anyone offer any advice please.

you can just place the cakes one on top of the other, but sometimes, depending on the weight, the cake might sink into the one below - ive never had this problem with the top tier, its more the bottom tier, and for that reason i tend to go for a fruit cake for the bottom tier, and then have sponge ones on top (also means people have a choice of sponge or fruit)

as for ribbon, you can use any type, and i tend to use a headed pin, in a similar colour, to hold the join in place

however if you really want to save money on your cake, then tesco do a similar range to the M&S ones, for about 1/2 the price

this is one i made for BILs wedding, when his caterers let him down at the last minute

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewingstuff/3342538148/

Flea

sarahg1969

I had two cakes from M&S for my wedding 12 years ago. One was directly on the top of the other. My mum did it, so I have no idea if she had to do something special to stop them sinking.

And I had a little posy of flowers made to sit on top of it.

Very simple, and looked lovely.

kelda_shelton

I was looking for the cakes online on tesco.com and could not for the life of me find them - can anyone give me a direct link?
Also on the m&s site I can only see the maderia and fruit cakes in the traditional wedding cake section... where can yu get the vanilla and chocolate ones?

charleypink

Hi there,
I had a two tier cake from marks a few years ago, and i decorated it with sugar roses. I bought all the roses and stand from a cake craft shop. It was a lovely tasty cake:)

Sagaris

ladypinkof66 wrote: »

how much did you pay for your cake if you dont mind me asking

Think it was about £199 last year - but worth every penny! Milk chocolate version, with roses down the side.
It's pictured on page 54 of the e-catalogue, if you go on the 'food' section of their website.

laurajayne

flea72 wrote: »

as for ribbon, you can use any type, and i tend to use a headed pin, in a similar colour, to hold the join in place

Flea

Please please don't do this. Foreign objects in food are highly frowned upon; and the risk of someone eating this is high. Ribbon can be held by edible sugar glue, or if it's a satin ribbon, wet the length, dry out as much water as you can whilst still keeping it damp, and then wrap around the cake. The ribbon will stick to both the cake and itself.

Yes, you should be able to stack the cakes - make sure that the bottom teirs are the heavier (I'd make the bottom a fruit cake), and use cake boards. You can also use dowels to make sure the cakes don't sink. (they're in the cake, so you can't see them. Just tell the venue how many are in each teir so that they make sure they remove them).

Best of luck, I'm sure it'll look beautiful.

marshmallow13

just a word with this - try waitrose. their cakes and service are fantastic - and they do them stacked without pillars like you have said - a little more than the boxed ones in M&S but they make them to order - they do chocolate stacked one too, i bought my daughters christening cake from there and it was fab - I am having cupcakes and just ordering 100 at 79p each off the patisserie (and going to ask for discount!) they only want a weeks notice! if you want one made think its about 4 weeks - much much cheaper than cake makers and really are quality cakes. (PS i dont work for them there are other cake makers available lol!)