Wedding Cake Tips for the Budgeting Bride

With the beginning of every New Year comes a new crop of brides. A joyous time for all involved as dreams of the beautiful life you will create with your fiancé and especially your upcoming fairytale wedding float in your head. But, with the current economic situation, many a bride is scaling back on their wedding budgets while still attempting to ensure they get to live out their ideal wedding day. For many, the cake is a large part of that grand vision, but sometimes the cost can be prohibitive. Below, I’ve given some tips as to how to save on costs, while having the wedding cake of your dreams.

*Instead of ordering a large 3 or 4 tiered cake, consider getting a smaller cake and some undecorated sheet cakes. You still get to cut your pretty cake for the photos and your guests will never know they’re eating sheet cake.


*Consider bartering for a lower cost on your cake, by including the company name of your cake designer included in your wedding program. It will be a great advertising opportunity for the cake designer and will help lower your costs.

*Get in on the cupcake trend! Serving your guests individual cupcakes decorated in your wedding colors is a fun and whimsical way to feed your guests cake while helping your budget. Typically cupcakes are cheaper than ordering a 3 or 4 tier cake and each guest gets the joy of having their own individual cake.


*Choose buttercream over fondant. The look and versatility of fondant to cover wedding cakes is fantastic and growing in popularity every day, due to shows like Cakes Boss and Ace of Cakes. However, buttercream with its sweet, lovely goodness shouldn’t be discounted. Not only is it fantastic at covering a cake, but it can also be used to create fantastic designs on your cake. Additionally, it evokes wonderful memories of the cakes you made as a child in the kitchen with your mom and grandma.


These are just a few things you can do when trying to live within your wedding cake budget, but the most important thing to remember when it comes to wedding cake is get what you desire and have the best time eating it! :)

Sweet Cake wishes,
Ritzy Cakes

A cold and broken Hallelujah!

I love to bake...I truly do. The joy of getting to see someone delighting in the food I've made is like angels singing in my soul. I live for that sound.
In this life and the beyond, I've made quite a few cakes. Lemon filled, apple tarty, rum soaked, you name it! I've made it or will attempt to make it. Even the ever so simple, plain white/yellow cake with buttercream frosting.

Buttercream frosting...my mortal enemy. "Mortal enemy", you say. Yes, Le Buttercream, my enemy and my best friend.

This week has been hectic. I've baked a few orders for a party, some friends and even made some cakes to sample at a wedding expo I exhibited at. All these occurring on rather warm & balmy days. Ahhh...the joy of summer, the demise of my perfectly lovely buttercream.

The princess cupcakes I made for a birthday party were left outside in the sun by a multi-tasking mom who returned to see a future decline of her princess themed extravaganza with individual candles lit bright. A foolish woman I know, but a clear example of the relationship that butter cream and I have. She bails on you when the heat gets turned up!

But alas, I love her! She is the sweet epitome of delight that will forever make my heart sing when I look at a beautiful cupcake, fantastically decorated wedding cake or an oh so pretty, lemon meringue buttercream. She has won a few battles, but I've conquered and won the war! Hence, the delight with which my apple cake was received at the wedding expo.

In fact, quite a few asked what the secret was to my frosting. A secret I'll not tell. So to you my lovely buttercream, I say through the words of the poetic Leonard Cohen, "I've seen your flag on the marble arch, Love is not a victory march, It's a cold and broken Hallelujah!" Yes buttercream, you're the best I've ever seen on a dessert.