Do you think it is too much if I make my wedding cake a week before my wedding?

I think it would be wonderful if you made your own cake.

However consider carefully what your schedule will be like the week before and the day before your wedding. Will doing the baking and decorating be stressful or a stress-reliever? Will you be able to block out some time?

Only you can answer these questions. If it would be a stress-reliever and you would have the time then I think it would be a lovely idea...

you know what - the longer you do leave them the better they taste, but I can go 1 better.

tescos or sainsburys do pre-iced fruit cakes, which you can decorate to your own style. We bought 3 tiers for £40 (all done and iced) got a swan cake stand, bought edible flowers and ordered an extra pose took the petals off and sprinkled them on each tier. a few days before the ceremony. My sis paid £160 for a similar cake......

at the end of the day, fruit cakes are standard, its what YOU want on them that makes them special, if youre happy with it decorate it yourself. Bear in mind youll be pretty stressed the day before so a couple of days before would do!!

You can bake the cake a couple of weeks before. Do not ice them, let them completely cool, and freeze them in lots of plastic wrap. Thaw it no more than 4 days before the wedding day, and make sure they are thawed completely before icing them. Wedding cake icing recipe: 2 cups powdered sugar, 1/2 cup Crisco vegetable solid, not oil. Add your colorings.

If you have them setting out more than 4 days before they are eaten, they can spoil. I don't know if other people can taste it when a cake begins to spoil, but I can. It tastes rancid.

Set aside the whole day just to spend on your cake decorating so you are not stressed out!

Congratulations!

Since you are icing it doing it earlier would be better, irrespective of needing to stand or be fed etc you need time for the icing to set properly once it's done and the day before is not enough time for that. Besides if any errors are made you would then have time to correct them if you did it say a month before and since it's iced fruit cake it would be fine left for that length or even longer.

Yes, a week or less til the wedding is fine to make the cake if you thrive on stress. At the same time you should wait til after the rehearsal dinner to make the dress. Between the barfing and stress headaches, it'll all be fine no worries!

You will be up to your ears with other things that close to your wedding day.

Maybe make a good moist fruit cake, with a good dollop of spirits and ice it a few weeks before hand. It should stay fresh encased in the icing.

Yes with everything else you have to do your brain will melt and dribble out your ear, not a good look. Either get an underling to do it or buy plains ones from M&S or similar and decorate yourself they will be fondant iced and may have a bit of decorative icing.

I thought fruit cakes got better the longer you leave them?

i think its lovely that you want to make your own wedding cake! it will be much more special to your

partner than one baked by a stranger. however i definitely would NOT leave it with just a week to go! you will be busier than you think with the wedding and the cake should be completely finished including icing the week before.

good luck and congratulations!!!

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