insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 12 - February 2016 | Page 31

WEDDINGS Your Wedding Cake THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX BY LISA PARKINSON OF BEACHCOMBER CAKES Choosing the most important cake of your life? While oh-so-exciting, your dream wedding cake can leave you with more questions than answers. Contrary to opinions given in numerous bridal articles, wedding cakes are, in our experience, more important than ever to the majority of future couples and continue to push boundaries of both tradition and excepted design. Couples are seeking something reflective of them as individuals and as a couple. Serving their cake choice as a dessert option helps to keep expenditure costs under control. separate cutting cakes. We even hire our cakes for photoshoots and filming. We undertake a comprehensive cake consultation, allergen discussion and cake tasting at our cake studio based at Dungeness. We deliver, set up and collect anywhere in the UK (charges apply). We supply a ‘free-from’ cake range (except nut). Naked cakes, pate décor, croquembouche, and macaroon towers can all be supplied. Floral cascades, single blooms, ruffles, stencilling, metallic, contemporary, classic, vintage, patisserie, grazing tables – the list goes on. Oh, and we also teach, so if you want to make your own wedding cake, we can help. At Beachcomber Cakes, we are known for our customer service, creativity and for thinking outside ‘Edible Artistry’ is a growing trend, moving the wedding cake from its humble beginnings to astounding heights. Now huge with celebrities, driven by such media shows as the Cake Boss and Choccywoccydodah, the only way it seems is up for wedding cakes; gravity, the skill set of the cake designer and of course budget, all play a part. If your budget won't stretch to a fabulous fully edible creation, don't despair. We supply Kent’s most extensive faux cake hire service alongside 31 of the box. Cakes for Asian weddings and alternative cultures (steam punk, gothic, sci-fi, etc) are a passion. Satisfying the eye as well as the stomach…that's us in a nut shell! BEACHCOMBER CAKES AND THE ROCPOOL SCHOOL OF BAKING [email protected] www.bakingbythesea.co.uk Tel: [phone]