I have found a 50% reduction in savings on the east coast and when I told a couple bakers here in Los Angeles. They jumped on the band wagon for it is an easier bake for them, far less time in decoration and they get the most orders. The trick is that a bride orders a cake for 150 and gets a cake for 250. WOW and the best decor. A SHOWPIECE. A bigger better cake, puts the guests at awe to see such a beautiful huge cake with the best of the best of trim.
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The cake is a fabulous display cake that is with hardened sugar and will be used at future weddings. There is only one section of real cake at the bottom that is real edible cake about a 12 inch slice. That is where the real cut / cake feed / and photos will be taken from. No one will know that the rest of the cake is fake because of the cake cut and feed. When the photos and feed are finished, the cake is wheeled to the kitchen where flats of cake are ready to cut and be served.
1.} Bride gets larger cake.
2.} Bakers get a great showpiece display cake to advertise to future brides at wedding.
3.} Baker only needs to redo each few months.
4.} They also do not need their cakes to shift or fall because they are specially built.
5.} Easy trimming on the flats.
6.} No one know the difference.
7.} When others ask the bride how much she paid for the cake and she tells them what they did, it's a new trendy way that the new bride will buy to show how smart she is.
Well, one way to save money on a wedding cake is to order a small decorated wedding cake and then order undecorated sheet cakes to serve the masses. it is the same cake but doesn't have the costly labor.
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