Easy DIY Wedding Cakes With Waitrose

When discovering the costs of things which make up your wedding, there are bound to be a few which shock or suprise you. Perhaps it's the cost of beautiful bouquets, maybe it's the price of corkage, but one which always seems to raise eyebrows is the cost of a wedding cake. But then again the time spent doing tastings, time spent designing, top quality ingredients, and hours hand crafting perfect sugar roses all add up. 

Looking to cut costs? Doing a DIY wedding cake doesn't have to be the petrifying task it sounds like. In fact, you could have a beautiful, completely bespoke wedding cake without even turning the oven on. 

Waitrose offer a fantastic range of undecorated wedding cakes which allow you a blank canvas on which you can get creative. They come in a range of crowd pleasing favourites such as fruit cake, vanilla sponge and chocolate. Oh, and we discovered that if you pop into your local Waitrose store you can order some cake samples to taste for free! 

Need inspiraton? Fiona Cairns (maker of the royal wedding cake) has some suggestions as to how a Waitrose wedding cake might be decorated using some simple ingredients and accessories which can be found in Waitrose or John Lewis. Her sweety cake is certainly one of our favourites...

"Choose sweets to decorate your cake - after picking sweets to match your chosen colour palate, stick them on with royal icing and use matching ribbon round the outside of the cake. It’s easy to create sweet floral displays, but remember, don’t cover every surface of the cake - less is more."

See how it's done in this easy to follow video...

Not a sweety lover? Fiona Cairns shows us just how easy it is to crystalise fruit and use that to decorate your cake, for a sophisticated rustic look...

"Pick fruits you love - cherries, rosemary and figs all work well. Cover the fruit in beaten egg white, sprinkle with caster sugar and leave to dry. Using the large fruit first, layer the crystalised fruit, from the back of the cake to the front, for a beautifully elegant finish."

See her in action here...

 If the idea of DIY-ing your own wedding cake still sets you off in cold sweats, Waitrose also have a range of beautiful fully deocrated wedding cakes you can order in store or via the online shop. What's more, they're totally affordable, utterly delicious and will be delivered straight to your venue for free! Here are some of our favourites...

Check out the full range of Waitrose wedding cakes here...