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Houston Wedding Cake Bakers Guide

Have Your Perfect East Texas Wedding Cake

The only thing sweeter than a Southern dessert is a Texas-size helping. Order up your wedding cake in Houston, and you’ll get both. Like the entire South, sweets are de rigueur in Texas’s largest city, so finding the perfect wedding cake baker should be as fun as a roll in the haystack. Read on for delicious tips.

Start your Houston wedding cake baker search about 6 months’ prior to your wedding date. Most caterers offer cake as part of the package, and couples go this route for simplicity and efficiency, and to keep costs down. If you’re looking for something more complicated or stylized, hire a baker.

When searching, ask friends and relatives, vendors, and anyone’s who’s served you a fabulous dessert. If your favorite Houston restaurant has a red velvet cake that’s to die for, find out who their baker is. Your cake can cost anywhere from $400 to $1,000 (for 100 guests), depending on the baker, your type of cake, and how many you order. Before talking to bakers, write down flavors you love, check out wedding cake sites, and bring in photos of cakes that have caught your eye.

A reliable baker will guide you through the cake process, even if you have a good idea of the confection you’d like. Generally, he’ll show you three kinds; something trendy, something traditional, and something he’s famous for. Even if you have your heart set on German Chocolate Cake, if won’t hurt to get a taste of his ideas.

Cupcakes are all the rage now, tiered and served as the main cake, or as a second “cake,” in the same or different flavor. They also make great favors. Carrot cake (with or without nuts) is popular too. Make sure you discuss any food allergies you have before narrowing down your choices.

Groom cakes (which originated as a Southern tradition) are back in vogue, usually served alongside the main cake, and no longer gender- or flavor-specific. Gone are the days when “his” cake was always shaped like a set of golf clubs; nowadays, he gets the same sweet options as you do.

When you’re ready to get serious about fluff, check the OurWeddingDay.com Houston Local Vendor Section for a list of first-tier East Texas wedding cake bakers.

If your budget is a big concern, order one cake. Another cost-cutter is to make the tiers small and have a sheet cake in the back, which the caterers slice and serve. Cakes can also take the place of the dessert course.

The Houston wedding cake baker you hire will deliver the cake to your site the day of the wedding, and make sure proper storage keeps your cake fresh until serving time. In the contract, make sure there are no surprise fees, and that anything “offered” as a gift does not cost you anything. If you have special requests, discuss the fee ahead of time and have it stated in writing.

Then get ready for the cake walk of your life!

-David Toussaint