Your Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wedding - Jun/Jul 2019 (Issue 77)

CAKES 79  “Cake tables allow couples to customise their sweet offering as much as they want to with different looks and flavours and are also a great option for people who suffer from allergies or have a dietary preference, with smaller bakes made to requirements. Some people opt to add a few contrasting macarons in an alternative flavour to their cake to please all tastes. Others turn their cake table into the centrepiece of their wedding, adding an array of tempting treats and bakes to wow their guests by utilising beautiful props and flowers, tying their whole wedding day together. The joy of a dessert table is you can have everything made to complement your wedding theme or colour scheme. You get to decide on the colours, accents and flavours of each item contributing to the table, making wedding planning that little bit more fun.” – Sarah, sweetindulgentcakes.co.uk “Another great choice is to have a large cake that doubles up as dessert, such as the traditional French croquembouche. This tower of choux pastry buns dipped in caramel and filled with creme patissiere and skilfully built into a towering cone shape held together with caramel and decorated with spun sugar, nibbed almonds and sugar pearls. I’m one of the very few bakers in the Cotswolds who still makes this traditional French dessert, having learned how to make it as an apprentice pastry chef under the guiding hand of legendary chef Michel Roux Sr. at the Waterside Inn at Bray.” – Paul, cotswoldbaking.co.uk “The most innovative approach is to have no main cake but perhaps just a small cake for the traditional cutting accompanied by macaron towers, cupcake towers and even donut towers and donut walls. The quirkiest cake I have been asked to design is coming up later this summer, a Beauty and the Beast-themed cake – mainly white but with bright red and yellow touches, with silhouettes of the characters featured on the middle tier and the topper.” – Victoria, victoriassponges.co.uk Cake Tables squibphotography.co.uk victoriassponges.co.uk victoriassponges.co.uk. sweetindulgentcakes.com