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To be fair on the cake: Most regular cakes are small affairs. If you go to that same baker and ask for a 3-tier, ornately decorated cake that will feed at leas
by Broken_Hippo 8y ago
To be fair on the cake:
Most regular cakes are small affairs. If you go to that same baker and ask for a 3-tier, ornately decorated cake that will feed at least 50-100 people and has a keepsake decoration on top, it'll be more.
Cakes like that are a different beast. They require special recipes so they don't collapse themselves. I know professional bakeries are able to spend less time than I did making my sister's wedding cake - a 3-tier affair - but they are still a decent amount of work and effort. Doubly so if you are paying the baker to transport and assemble the cake.
So yeah, of course wedding cakes are expensive, depending on the bells and whistles. But so are equally decadent cakes with the bells and whistles.
- wgerard 8y agoAlso a very fair point.
- astura 8y agoSo I was under the impression it was common for the bottom layers of wedding cakes to be Styrofoam and the top layer was only used for cake cutting/pictures and the cake served to the guests was a sheet cake.
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoThat is an option - some or all of the cake being completely fake, but I have honestly never seen one. It is just as common to go with a smaller cake plus the sheet cake for more guests. Most of these options are to cut down on the actual costs of the cake: It is easier to decorate styrofoam and much easier to deal with a smaller layer cake than a large sheet cake. I, however, did not go that route :)