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Wedding Cake Recipe and Baking
Questions, Answers and Tips
Are you making a wedding cake and have a question about the recipe or how to bake it? Perhaps you need help scaling up or scaling down your recipe? If you've got a question about your wedding cake, here's the place to ask it.
This page is for questions on wedding cake recipes and baking, if you have a specific question on one of the following topics, ask your question there:
Wedding Cake Decoration and Icing Questions
Wedding Cake Assembly, Stacking and Transportation Questions
General Wedding Cake Questions
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Your Wedding Cake Answers
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Sugar Paste Recipe
I need to ice a wedding cake with sugar paste and am not sure if I should make my own or buy some shop bought sugar paste. What is the difference between ...
4" Deep Wedding Cakes
I want to bake fruit cakes 4" deep which seem to be the latest fashion in wedding cakes. Do I need to hire special deeper tins to get this depth?
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Crumbly Fruit Cake
Why does my rich fruit cake crumble when I cut it?
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Crumbling usually occurs when a cake is cooked too long or at too high a temperature....
Amount Of Ingredients Required For 14" & 16" Madeira Cakes
Hi, I really need some help if at all possible. I'm making a two tier Madeira cake (14" & 16") but I'm not sure what ingredients I need to make these ...
How Deep Should A Wedding Cake Be?
How deep should a wedding cake be before you ice it? I have just made the first of three cakes for my daughter’s wedding but they don’t look very deep....
What Is The Best Sponge Or Madeira Wedding Cake Recipe?
Hi,
I need a really good recipe for a 12, 10 and 8 inch wedding cake, can you help? I'm really worried about the cooking time and how to prevent the ...
Cheap Nut Free Wedding Cakes
Hi Nicola
I have started to look around at wedding cakes , and have come across a stumbling block. I've tried all the major supermarkets (as recommended)...
What Wedding Cake Tin Size?
My friend is making my cake and using Delia's recipe. We have the proportions needed but need to know what size cake tins we need.
We are having ...
Gluten Free Wedding Cake Recipe
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I have a number of friends coming to my wedding that can’t eat products with gluten in them. I would like to make a small gluten free cake for them as ...
I Would Like To Bake Individual Wedding Cakes?
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How do I create individual wedding cakes. I looked at buying some small cake tins, but at £3.99 each that will cost a fortune to buy the tins before ...
Good Chocolate Cake Recipe That Won’t Blow My Budget
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I have been asked to make a budget chocolate wedding cake, but am struggling to find any budget recipes. Do you have any recipes for a 12’’ and 10’’ wedding ...
Dark Rich Fruit cake
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Do you know where I can find a recipe for a dark rich fruit cake to make for my daughter’s wedding?
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I think that this recipe will ...
Sponge 3 Tier Stacked
Wedding Cake
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A friend wants a 3 tier stacked wedding cake in sponge (no pillars). I thought of a madeira cake recipe. Would you recommend I marzipan the cakes before ...
How Many Weeks Before The
Wedding Should You Make
The Cake
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Some people believe that the longer you “feed” your fruit cake, the better.
As long as you’re feeding it (pouring brandy on it) and ...
What Size Tins For 100 Portions
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I would like to make a three tier cake with the bottom and top being traditional fruit cake and the middle being a sponge cake. Can you tell me what ...
Recipe For A 10 Inch Square Madeira Cake
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I am trying to find a recipe for a 10 inch square Madeira cake. Do you have a recipe to share?
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Here is the perfect recipe for you....
What Size Cake Tins For A Suitcase Wedding Cake?
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What size tins would be best for a 3 tier suitcase wedding cake? Would oblong or square be best? I do have a multi-size tin that the maximum size is ...
Madeira Recipe For A 4" Top Tier
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I'm making a Madeira 3 tier wedding cake for friends, the top tier will be 4 inches diameter. I was wondering if you could help, I can't find any recipes ...
Baking Time and Temperature For A 14" Madeira Cake?
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I'm making a wedding cake for my friends and one of the layers is a 14" round Madeira. I'm not sure what temperature or for how long I should cook it....
Tin Sizes For A 3 Tier Square Wedding Cake
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What are the best sizes for a 3 tier square wedding cake? I believe there are some sizes (and depths) that look best together.
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Square ...
How Can I Stop A Wedding Fruit Cake From Rising?
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How can I stop a wedding fruit cake from rising even using plain flour?
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This is a great question.
To prevent your fruit cake from ...
Wedding Cake Pans
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I am trying to find out what size of cake pans I need to make a 3 tier square wedding cake that will feed at least 200 people.
Here are the sizes ...
Recipe For A 14" Round Fruit Cake
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I want to make my own wedding cake and I'm looking for a 14 inch fruit cake recipe. Have you got any suggestions?
I would recommend using a recipe ...
Scaling Down A Wedding Cake Recipe
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Scaling down and cooking times for Madiera cake
I am making a 3 tier sponge wedding cake in tin sizes 11 inch, 9 inch and 7 inch. The recipe I'm using ...
Wedding Cake Recipe
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Please can you provide a wedding cake recipe for a 14 inch round cake (fruit)? If not, can you tell me how to scale up from a recipe I have for an 8 ...
Scaling Up A Wedding Cake
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I have offered to make another friend's wedding cakes and she's being very specific (and slightly random) about what she wants. So I was hoping you ...
Feeding A Wedding Fruit Cake
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I've made 3 fruit cakes (11", 8" and 6") for my wedding using Delia's recipe which fingers-crossed seem to have come out well. I am ready to feed them ...
Height Of Cake
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I am making a wedding cake for my daughter’s wedding next year and whilst information can be found regarding diameter of the various tiers, I am unable ...
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