Edible Essence 0Wedding Cakes for scrumptious
Devon & Cornwall brides

Your wedding cake is the centrepiece of your reception. You want it to look fantastic, reflect your style – and taste delicious! Will it be traditional or contemporary? Will it be moist fruit cake or luscious chocolate? Or sponge cake, lemon cake, carrot cake? A tower of profiteroles? A stack of fairy cakes?
If your groom likes fruit cake but you prefer chocolate, you can even have one tier of each. If your budget’s running a bit tight, think of having a cake which you can serve as a dessert at the end of your wedding breakfast.
And if you want to be bang up-to-the-minute, absolutely the latest trend is a cheese cake – no, not a sweet cheesecake, but a cake made of several large cheeses, moulded to the correct shape and size, stacked together and decorated with fresh fruit. Wedding Cakes based in Devon & Cornwall.

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It makes a real focal point for your evening reception and can be served with crackers or warm baguettes.So, if you thought choosing your wedding cake was going to be one of your easiest decisions, think again! How to go about it?

First choose your style

Traditional white tiered wedding cakes can be personalised with sugar flowers reflecting your bridal bouquet, delicately constructed butterflies or even beads and feathers. Novelty cakes comes in all shapes and sizes from tiers of suitcases or parcels to cakes in the shape of the Eiffel Tower or a grand piano. Chocolate cakes are almost as versatile. Choose a smooth, shiny chocolate icing, or mouth-watering chocolate fudge or exquisite chocolate curls. And, of course, they can be milk, dark or even white chocolate. Fairy cakes can be made in paper cups decorated with hearts and topped with white icing scattered with matching hearts or decorated with individually made sugar flowers. Imagine it, it’s yours!

Find your cake maker

Visit several cake makers, look at photographs of cakes they have made, take time to discuss your ideas and your budget and see what they come up with. Do check that they use the best ingredients because while your cake must look spectacular, the proof of this pudding is certainly in the eating.

Finalise your order

Ideally your cake should be ordered at least three months before the wedding. The most important thing to remember is that it will have to be big enough to give everyone a slice at the reception and to send slices to absent friends. Traditionally the top tier of a wedding cake was kept for the christening of the first child – so if you want to follow that tradition, you’ll have to opt for a cake that will last that long.

And finally…

Your cake maker’s price may include delivery and setting up the cake at the reception venue as well as the use of a cakestand and knife – but it may not. Check. You may even be able to save some money by collecting the finished cake yourself and your reception venue may provide a cakestand and knife.

AUSEL CAKES

Cornwall-based
Tel: 07590 610128
Email: [email protected]

Website: www.auselcakes.co.uk

Visually stunning and deliciously tasty: Cornish-based Ausel Cakes creates beautiful designs and unique cakes perfectly tailored to your wedding theme and your tastebuds!

Their extensive repertoire covers traditional wedding cakes, miniature cakes, cupcakes, tray bakes and cakesicles. In fact, they love nothing more than preparing a whole delicious and stunning dessert table – and they can also help with all of the food and drink for your wedding.

 

 

 

CATHY’S BAKEHOUSE

Devon-based
Tel: 07436 537070
Email: [email protected]

Website:

It’s no surprise that Cathy’s Bakehouse was asked to provide a special cake for a visit to Honiton by the then Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. Cathy has been making wedding and celebration cakes for 45 years and specialises in all aspects of sugarcraft  – witness the sugar models of the Royal couple on top of  their special cake.

Cathy is renowned for pretty, elegant designs that enthrall the tastebuds and enchant the eye. She caters for vegans as well as people with allergies.

 

 

THE CHEEKY CAKE COMPANY

Devon-based
Tel: 07503 070808
Email: [email protected]

Website: www.cheekycakecompany.com

Anna, at the Cheeky Cake Company, takes great pride in the cakes she makes for weddings. At an initial consultation, Anna will discuss design, flavours, flowers, numbers of tiers and so on, offering advice where she can. Making sugar flowers to decorate the cake is a particular speciality of hers.

The Cheeky Cake Company offers a wide variety of flavours of wedding cake, often different flavours on each tier and can make cupcakes in each of the flavours you’re considering, to allow you to choose.

 

 

 

MANDY’S CLASSIC CAKES

43 Bampton Street, Tiverton EX16 5ARS
Tel: 01884 242064
Email: [email protected]

Website: www.mandysclassiccakes.co.uk

A finalist in the South West Wedding Awards for the past two years, Mandy has been hand making contemporary and traditional cakes for the past 20 years. She also supplies wedding favours, candy cart, chair covers, table centres and letter box hire.

Mandy’s Classic Cakes now has a shop in Tiverton, selling cakes and cake equipment and showcasing accessories for hire.

 

RED ROBIN PANTRY

Cornwall-based
Tel: 07446 030259
Email: [email protected]

Website: www.redrobinpantry.co.uk

Red Robin Pantry, winner of the 2023 South West Wedding Award for Best Cakes, specialises in bespoke wedding cakes, handmade confectionery and patisserie.
Owner Debbie’s main signature styles are hand-painted buttercream and nature-inspired edible flower cakes.
Four generous layers of sponge (choose from 21 scrumptious flavours) are sandwiched together with a choice of rich and velvety Italian meringue buttercream or finest Belgian chocolate ganache, and complementing preserve where appropriate.
Ingredients are organic, fair trade and sustainable wherever possible. And when it comes to real flower decorations, they only use home-grown or locally-sourced edible and food-safe flowers .