Affordable Wedding Cake for the Cake Decorator Bride

A Wedding celebration is incomplete without a Wedding Cake. A decorated Wedding cake is very special for both the bride and the groom. Most people love cake and so the wedding cake must serve double duty as being beautifully decorated, and tasty. It is essential to have a perfect and absolute delicious wedding cake for the perfect occasion.

Wedding cakes usually start in the $300 dollar range and go up from there. Sometimes, dramatically high for an ornately decorated wedding cake. As a baker, or friend of a baker, you have an advantage to keeping this wedding expense low.

The best way to reduce cost is to make the wedding cake and cake decorations yourself. However, this is not recommended for any bride, even Martha Stewart. The stress of the day and all the other items for the wedding should keep you from creating your own cake. At most, you can bake the cake, freeze it, then hand it to someone else for decorating.

The best way to reduce cost on wedding cake is to ask a friend to do it as a wedding gift. There are lots of recipes online to choose from and you can select one of them which most suit you. Of course, simple white cake from a box is fine as well. The tricky part is the cake decoration, which requires some skill. Unfortunately, if your friend doesn’t know much about cake decorating, this won’t be an option for you. Don’t compromise your budget on cake decorations as this is the most important part for the cake to look perfect. If your friend cannot decorate the cake, they can apply the finishing touches by arranging flowers on the cake.