Why Are Wedding Cakes So Expensive?
The cost of a wedding cake is not determined by the cost of the ingredients. Scale and degree of difficulty are major factors. Take into consideration the following: Planning starts weeks in advance, supplies must be purchased and decorations have to be made and/or ordered. Quantities and schedules must be determined. Baking many, much larger layers in is not the same as baking a standard 8 cake. Ingredients must be scaled up, lots and lots of ingredients. Pounds of flour, sugar, and butter and dozens of eggs are utilized. Frosting a wedding cake requires many pounds of frosting or fondant. Safe food handling is required. Fresh eggs and dairy products require proper handling so your baker needs access to large amounts of refrigeration. Your wedding cake requires the baker to have a basic understanding of structural engineering. They are constructed using the same principals for skyscrapers. In a building they use bearing piles, in a cake wooden or plastic dowels or other support system
