The Wedding Cake Guide
A Step By Step Guide to
Making Your Own Wedding Cake
Follow this wedding cake guide as you make your own wedding cake. A wedding fruit cake recipe is the base for the traditional wedding cakes that are covered in marzipan and fondant icing. These cakes can then decorated with royal icing pipe work, sugar or fresh flowers. Stored carefully these cakes will keep in good condition for up to 12 months. We cut the top tier of our beautiful wedding cake three years after our wedding. It stored well. I did check the cake every six months to see that it was still in good condition. It was not as moist as it was on our wedding day, but it did taste still taste very nice. The following articles below are guides which will take you step by step so that you make your own wedding cake from baking to applying the first covering of marzipan and then the final coating of fondant icing. Please take the time to read these as they are filled with valuable information to help you make your wedding cake.
1. Wedding Fruit Cake Baking GuideIf you have never made a wedding fruit cake before it is recommended that you read the Wedding Fruit Cake Baking Guide before starting your wedding fruit cake recipe. This wedding cake guide gives advice on how to obtain the best results for baking your wedding cake. Wedding Fruit Cake Baking Guide 2. How to Line a Cake Tin It is important that you line your cake tins properly. The cakes are cooked over several hours and the lining protects the cakes from burning. You should use cake tins that are well shaped and even. This will ensure a well shaped cake for decoration. This article gives instructions on how to line a round and square cake tin, once you know the basics you can line any shape tin. How to Line a Cake Tin 3. Wedding Fruit Cake Recipe. A List of Ingredients. Here you will find the recipe that I made for my own wedding cake. It has a soft rich flavor and lovely texture with nuts and dried fruit in it. I baked the cake about 4 months before the wedding. Then decorated and finished about two months before the wedding. List of Ingredients for a Wedding Fruit Cake 4. Make a Wedding Cake Mixture This wedding cake guide will give you instructions on the process of preparing the fruit and mixing method. It will give you baking times for various size fruit cake. You will find out how to tell when the cake is cooked and how to store your cake until you are ready to decorate it. Make a Wedding Cake Mixture 5. Making the Perfect Wedding CakeThis article will give you hints on how to successfully make your wedding fruit cake. Hints for Making the Perfect Wedding Cake 6. Almond Paste (also known as Marzipan)Almond Paste is the first covering on your wedding cake it will give a smooth surface for the fondant cake icing. This article gives information on when and how to apply the almond paste to your wedding cake. A recipe for almond paste can also be found in this article. How to make almond paste 7. Fondant Cake IcingFondant cake icing is the second covering placed on a fruit cake and it is then decorated. This wedding cake guide explains how to make fondant icing, how to tint it with color, how to roll and apply it as a covering to the cake. How to make Fondant Cake Icing 8. Royal IcingRoyal icing is used to decorate a fondant cake. It can be used to make flowers, piping on the cake for lace work, flood work and more. Royal Icing Recipe
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