We might be slightly biased, but choosing your wedding cake flavours has to be one of the best jobs on your wedding planning list. We’ve designed our wedding cake tasting in Kent to be enjoyed at home, so once you’ve booked with us, we’ll send four cake jars and a selection of handmade macarons for you to take your time choosing your favourites. After all, once the photographs have been taken and the cake has been cut, you want your guests to enjoy every slice. At Bluebell Kitchen, we care just as much about what’s inside the cake as we do about the sugar flowers, textures and finishing touches on the outside. We want your cake to look beautiful, of course, but we also want people to go back for seconds.
Your wedding cake tasting at a glance:
Your wedding cake consultation comes first
As a mother-and-daughter team, one of our favourite parts of this job is meeting our couples and hearing all about the wedding you’re planning. It gives us the chance to get to know what you love, what you definitely don’t, and the little details that will make your cake feel like yours. We might talk about how to bring your flowers into the design, the number of tiers you’ll need or whether you would like each tier to have a different flavour.
Before we bake your tasting box, we want to hear about your wedding. We’ll chat about the venue you’ve chosen, the number of guests you’re inviting, your colours and the cake ideas that have caught your eye. Some couples arrive knowing exactly what they want. Others show us several completely different ideas and ask us to help bring them together. We’re very happy with both. You don’t need to have every detail decided before we meet.
Lavinia and Lee described their experience perfectly:
“We had the best experience from the initial discussions on design and colour, to a tasting box to choose flavours ”
You can read more about what to expect during your wedding cake design experience here.
What to Expect From Your Wedding Cake Tasting
Once you’ve booked your date with us, we’ll prepare your complimentary tasting box. Inside, you’ll find four of our most popular cake flavours in individual tasting jars, together with a selection of handmade macarons.
We bake everything especially for you and send it to your home so you can enjoy the tasting in your own time. There’s no need to try several flavours quickly during an appointment or decide which one you prefer while we sit watching you. And, quite often, the flavour you both thought would win doesn’t. You can take your time, try them again the next day and have a proper discussion about which flavours deserve a place in your wedding cake.
In the words of Natalie and Sam:
“…The cake (tasting jars) tasted perfect! We cannot wait to see the final cake!”
Choosing Flavours for your Wedding Cake Tasting
Many couples think they already know what they’ll choose before the tasting box arrives. Then you open it. The familiar flavour you expect to love sometimes comes second. The one you added out of curiosity suddenly becomes the favourite. We see it happen all the time, and it’s one of the reasons tasting is so important. A menu can describe a flavour, but it can’t tell you how you’ll feel when you take that first spoonful.
Naheen and Alin chose Toffee Apple Crumble for all three tiers:
“It tasted like nothing I have ever had before. It was incredible!”
With a tiered cake, you can often choose more than one, which also gives everyone an excellent excuse to try another slice. And if choosing between them proves difficult, we’re always happy to help. It’s a problem we rather enjoy having.
Want some flavour inspiration, have a look at our wedding cake flavour menu here.
And don’t forget the macarons
Your complimentary wedding cake tasting box also includes a selection of handmade macarons. They may simply disappear while you’re tasting the cake, or they might start another conversation altogether e.g. perhaps including a macaron tower, favours or a few extra macarons alongside your cake.
James and Zoe chose a cake and macaron tower for their wedding, including our Piña Colada macarons:
“The flavour was fantastic and quickly became a favourite among our guests.”
Prefer to taste before booking?
Some couples prefer to try our cakes before booking, and we completely understand. Our Cake Tasting Jars of Delight gives you the chance to choose three flavours and enjoy your tasting at home before deciding what you’d like to do next.
We release the boxes once a month in limited numbers ready for you to order through our shop. We bake each one especially for the release date, and you can either collect it from our home based studio in Maidstone or choose delivery by Royal Mail Special Delivery.
Ready to start talking cake?
Choosing your Kent wedding cake should be enjoyable from the first conversation to the final slice. We’ll listen to your ideas, help you bring everything together and create a cake that looks beautiful, tastes incredible and feels unmistakably yours. Once you’ve booked, we’ll send your complimentary tasting box so you can enjoy four cake jars and a selection of macarons together at home.
Then all you need to do is decide which flavours make the final cut. So come on let’s chat all things cake…
Photos: Fiona Kelly Photography Rebecca Douglas Photography Arkshot Additional photos courtesy of the couples pictured
