Wedding cake - HELP!

sahara1959

Thanks vickiem30,
I live in Maidstone, Kent - just a bit far to pop round.
Thanks anyway

LydiaSophia

Wow! Wedding cake for £28!!!!! I put in a budget for £250! Great £28 sounds far better to me.

littlel_3

I have never seen the ones in asda, I will have to take a look, are they just plain white iced.

I am planning on getting m&s ones though, can anyone confirm yet, if you want to stack them on top of one another, do you need to put pillars in the bottom layer, I am only having 2 tiers so did'nt think I would need them.

pinkpig08

I'm interested to see the answer as I'm only having 2 layers. The medium and small. I'm having them in sponge, but I'm having an extra medium layer to keep in the kitchen to serve as dessert, keeping the meal costs down!

Just looked at the asda ones, they're a real bargain but only come in fruit and not sponge, so no good for me!

Emms

Ive copied and pasted this from a post I did about tesco cakes on here a while ago..


ASDA ASDA Extra Special wedding cake- large 1 EACH
Pack Size2.1 kg
Cake size - 225mm in diameter and 55mm high. £12.97

ASDA ASDA Extra Special wedding cake - medium 1 EACH
Pack Size1.25 kg
Cake size - 185mm in diameter and 50mm high. £8.97

ASDA ASDA Extra Special wedding cake - small 1 EACH
Pack Size800 g £5.67

Im sure they do sponge too but cant see it on the site



Tesco Medium Iced Madeira Celebration Cake £6.98

Tesco Small Rich Fruit Celebration Cake £5.79



They do more sizes too but again cant see them online


Emma

lavendergirl

My daughter had a 3 tier M & S cake last December. If you wish to stack it then remember sponge cakes probably don't stack that well. We hired a stand from our local flower shop which meant pillars were unnecessary. The sponge cakes are excellent, cost me £85 for 3 cakes. She got a medium fruit one as the top tier (thus the stand rather than pillars) to keep.

Hope you have as good a day as we had

pebble65

you can get pillars and plastic dowels from any food cake decoration supplier/sugarcraft shop -dowels will cos a pound or less each and you can get plastic pillars reasonably. Sponge cakes are not as easy to stack as fruit but it can be done you can buy ready made polystyrene seperators which are around 2 inches thick (you would only need one for a two tier cake-costs about £1.50- £2) these can look lovely with a ribbon band round them or artificial flowers glued on the edge ,

You can hire or buy 2 tier stands another idea is to get two glass, pottery or acrylic stands at different hights and stagger the cakes which can look effective.

I dont know if this site is any good as not ordered anything from them yet but they have an extensive range of dowels, pillars , seperators etc so will give you some idea but look around on the net and locally as well
www.cakecraftshop.co.uk

You can also find tutorials on the net on how to stack a wedding cake or how to dowel and tier one.

LISSILEIGH

I Had An M&s Cake For My Wedding Afew Years Ago, It Cost Me £35 For The Three As They Were On 342!!! I Went To My Local Cake Shop And Got Some Pillars And Hires A Stand. I Also Got The Sticks From There Too.

On Mine We Picked Off The Pipped Icing Round The Top, I Them Had My Lovely Friend Ice The Words: To Have And To Hold Around The Top Tier, Forver And Ever Round The Middle One, And To Love And To Cherish Around The Bottom One. In Celtic Writing!

It Looked Lovely And No One Could Believe That It Was A Basic M&s Cake, It Tasted Good, And Looked Fab Xxx

Krystaltips

Sounds gorgeous! Got any pics? lol

LISSILEIGH

Krystaltips wrote: »

Sounds gorgeous! Got any pics? lol

i would have to dig em out and them scan them. could do if you really want to see it?