my m&s wedding cake.....

Emms

Sheel wrote: »

That's the cake i've got for my daughter's wedding which is next Saturday.

She just wants it to be very simple so i've got some pink ribbon to wrap around each layer and a bride and groom figure to go on the top. She also wants the cakes on top of each other with no pillars so i've bought some dowels which I understand are needed (can you tell i'm a novice at this sort of thing? :rolleyes: ) , but what i'd like to know , if anyone can tell me , is how long before the wedding day can I put it all together? I don't want to leave it until the last minute , but is there any danger of the layers sinking if I did it too early?

Is the function in the hotel? If so they will stack it for you. Also if the cake needs transported then its easier to do when its not stacked.

Emma

Sagaris

We're having the chocolate one too - but I think the white chocolate flowers might be favourite at the moment! Not till sometime next year though - I'm getting my dress from M&S too!

Firefly

Please, please, please don't stack the cake before transporting it. Always put it in the footwell of your car and not in the boot where it will slide.

I have to say I'm gobsmacked that something so simple could cost so much. The layers could well sink, especially if it's fondant icing rather than royal icing. I was always taught to use fondant only with a tiered cake stand (sort of an S shape that the cakes sit on), and only with Royal icing can you use pillars.

Perhaps I'd better start making wedding cakes for a living!

rach

i've also been told that a double duvet is a good way to transport a cake on the back seat of a car

Sheel

Firefly wrote: »

Please, please, please don't stack the cake before transporting it. Always put it in the footwell of your car and not in the boot where it will slide.

I took your advice (thanks and to Emms too ) and stacked it myself at the venue. I did put it in the boot though as there was lots of boxes in there so the cake was well wedged in and couldn't slide about!

Emms

Sheel wrote: »

I took your advice (thanks and to Emms too ) and stacked it myself at the venue. I did put it in the boot though as there was lots of boxes in there so the cake was well wedged in and couldn't slide about!

Ooh we want to see pics! Hope you all had a fab day!

Emma

Firefly

Phew, glad all went well. A few years ago I helped a colleague to make a wedding cake for a friend. We did a lovely job (sunflowers on a single tier) and she put it in her boot, wedged in, to take to the wedding the day before.

On the motorway, some kind soul didn't look where they were going and rammed her boot squashing the cake into crumbs!!! (Car was a right-off, minimal injury to passengers)

The next morning we had a mercy mission to buy a plain cake from M&S and salvage what we could of the flowers. We topped up with yellow ribbon and fresh sunflowers from a nearby florist to save the day.

Never again will I trust a cake in the boot!

PS So glad it all went well.

wiggly

please don't put cakes anywhere other than in the boot, all sorts of things go wrong if they're on back seats or footwells

get some of the sticky matting and place under the cake in the boot and it won't move a millimetre

Emms

I took my cake in the boot for a 60 mile trip and it was fine. Just packed it in with loads of other stuff and chucked a duvet round it.

Emma

Lara

The safest way to transport cakes is to firstly have them in very strong cake cases which can be purchased online or at Sugarcraft exhibitions etc. Then a large piece of foam placed in the boot of the car on which the boxes will sit and nothing will slide around. It cushions any bumps etc.

I usually stack the top two tiers before transporting and then assemble on the bottom tier and finish off with a snails trail. All sugar flowers are assembled and placed in a strong cake box on a piece of foam for transportation. These can then be placed in the posy picks on the finished cake at the venue. Never transport cakes with flowers on unless you have some foam underneath the arrangement to stop them from possible breakage during your journey. However I wouldn't even risk that after all the time taken to make and wire these flowers together!

Glad to read your cake arrived safe and sound! Well Done
Oh ..................and congratulations :j .