New found respect for wedding cake makers!

Thank you for giving suppliers prop/credit! It does help us for people to understand the time that goes into things so thank you!

I can't imagine some of the work that goes into some of the cakes I've seen at weddings! I think a lot of the time we all forget the amount of effort and hard work that goes into things and can only see as far as the price tag. Sounds like a delicious cake you're baking as well.

God knows how I would get on baking my own... I get into enough mess as it is baking a simple sponge! You will have to show us a photo of yours once it's all finished.

Oh god! I'm planning to make my own. Will make sure I gave it plenty of time!

That is very nice to hear,

I am a professional cake maker (and bride to be !) and i have made many brides cakes, the prices are high but the time that goes into them is generally days and days.

If you account for:

meeting and tasters

designing the cake

sourcing the supplies

making the cake - ingredients/ gas / electric

covering cake

creating the decorations - if you have sugar flowers then generally 200g of flower sugarpaste costs on average of £5+ these flowers or decorations generally need a good week or so to air dry to ensure they are stable for your cake.

supports needed for inside the cake to ensure it doesn't collapse

training we undertake to keep our skills up to scratch

often i am up at 5am on a saturday morning to put finishing touches to a wedding cake before i leave for the venue, and generally i am not getting to bed till gone midnight. If it is cupcakes then i like to bake these on the day of the weddingif possible as it keeps them more fresh so that is an even earlier start,

if we costed out our time to an average hourly rate we would be charging much much more than the average £200 / £300 price of a wedding cake.

so it is really lovely to be appreciated thank you xx

As someone who photographs cakes professionally I can say there is so much work that goes into them it's staggering.

So true! Well done you on making your own cake, sure it'll work out perfect

I bake quite a lot and make birthday cakes for family & friends etc but would never attempt my own wedding cake as I just don't have the skill, respect the makers so much & it's amazing how perfect the look when all finished with..the work that goes into them is so impressive. I'm sure you'll feel a huge achievement when you see yours all finished

They are incredibly talented and it's nice that they are getting some recognition!

I know have you seen Cake Boss? That tv series on amazing cake making...just blows your mind of the skill/creativity involved!!