Getting Started - How To Choose The Cake Of Your Dreams
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Congratulations on your upcoming marriage. We are
delighted to have you consider us for your wedding cake masterpiece. Every
wedding cake created at Jules Bakery receives our undivided attention
to detail and flavor.
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Pricing
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What are you paying for when you purchase a wedding cake?
Well, the cake of course and the icing. Then a custom design personally selected
by the bride and groom. Some people choose cakes that require additional
hand-molded decorations, such as draping, flowers, sea shells or leaves. You are also paying for what you don't see -- the structural soundness of your
cake. Your cake will stand
majestically straight and sound.
How do you budget for your cake? It can be difficult to
say an exact price because there are so many design choices our bridal couples
can make. Our prices begin at $2.75
per serving, depending on your chosen design. More detailed cakes obviously take
longer and will cost more. Often, our brides will select a
centerpiece cake to serve perhaps half their guests and serve additional
guests from sheets cakes, which can be around $1 per serving. We also
have a couture line available for custom designs.
View
our photo album to visualize different sizes, shapes and servings
of actual cakes to help you choose the design you will use to create your
masterpiece..
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Start by selecting a basic design: perhaps you like the
“stacked” look or maybe separated tiers. Consider the size of your reception
hall and cake table. If it is a very large room, you may want the centerpiece
cake larger, or set it on pillars to create an illusion of height. If you want a smaller cake but want to create the illusion of size,
you can incorporate a flowing fountain into the design. Space can be managed by
selecting a table size that blends nicely with your cake selection.
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Shapes
Cakes come in several variations on shapes. Strong angles
on round cakes or square are traditional. Contoured edging adds softness. Double and single
layers together on a cake add unusual dimensions, as does designing with round
and square for the same cake. Shapes can be towering with very little
differentiation between layers or they can be more staggered with wider steps
from layer to layer. Heart-shaped cakes are a romantic touch for small intimate
weddings.
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Decoration
Now it's time to think about a decoration theme: do you prefer a simple dotted
Swiss technique or an elegant
garland with scroll work? Or what about a basket weave? We can change the
entire look of the overall cake with a quick addition of colors to match your wedding theme.
Are you beginning
to see that our options are limited only by our imaginations?
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Flavors
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Now chose the flavor
you want your cake to be, or mix and match a different combination for each
layer. Go traditional and
choose white. Follow the groom’s choice and add some chocolate. Be bold and go
for champagne or mocha. All cake flavors baked at Jules Bakery are options for
our wedding cakes. Normally
wedding cakes are crowned with our signature buttercream frosting. Many brides
choose to also create their wedding cake with specialty fillings or other types of icing and fillings.
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Be Daring
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If you want something more than a traditional wedding cake,
we have a wide variety of choices for you. Go for cheesecakes instead of sponge
cakes. Cupcake trees are darling and no one has to
cut the cake. Individual cakes
decorated to match a smaller bride’s cake are placed on each table as centerpieces.
Dessert
bars are another popular way to celebrate. Normally they include a small
bride’s cake or the addition of a groom’s cake, an assortment of cheesecakes
and tortes, cookies and fancy pastries. It’s a little more expensive but worth
every penny. If you are truly the
type of person who wants to create stir and do something outrageous, we offer
multi-colored stacking packages and three-dimensional designs.
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Private Consultations
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Call us today to schedule your
private bridal consultation and taste testing,
319.447.0943. We love to send
goodie boxes home with you for sampling.
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Legend
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Did you know
that the height of a wedding cake used to predict how fortunate your new
marriage would be? The bride and groom did not supply the cakes, their guests
did! Each guest would bring a small cake (what we know as a fruit cake) and as
they arrived at the celebration would stack their piece on the previous guest's
piece, creating a tower of wedding cake pieces. Queen Victoria's era saw this change as wedding cakes were
created by the bakers in towering confectioneries. Thus begins the tradition we
follow today with multiple layers of different sizes. Over the years, designs
have followed trends, just like everything else.
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