I’m getting married and I want a cheese wedding cake!
At the Cheese Kitchen this is something we are getting to hear quite a lot. The next line of conversation usually goes ‘ Do you know what Cheese you would like?’
The answer is then usually ‘No.’
This has prompted us to come up with the ‘how to’ of Cheese Wedding cakes. Here Goes:
1/ Size matters! No it really does. Think very carefully about going for the huge statement cake. If you go for the bottom quarter of a whole Cheddar truckle as your first layer of cake this will weigh about 8Kg. It will also cost about £100-150 just for that one piece. That is a huge amount of Cheddar; so unless you have 500 guests or are the Sultan of Brunei’s daughter, think again.
2/ Textures. A classic Cheese board is made up of: A hard Cheese, a soft Cheese, a blue cheese and then either: goat, ewe, crumbly or fruity cheese.
Your cake should reflect the same elements.
3/ All in order. Having decided on a hard, a blue. a soft and lets say a goats Cheese, we have to assemble them in the right order. That would be from the top:
Goats Cheese
The reasons for this are purely practical. Firstly, more people like hard cheese than the other types and secondly it’s the strongest most stable Cheese, so needs to be at the bottom. Blue Cheese is the second most stable Cheese so that goes second, with the softest cheese at the top of the cake.
4/ Any size you like (as long as its standard size!)
The last consideration is that different cheeses are made in different diameters. This is just how it is. You might be dying to have a huge ring of organic Godminster as your base cheese, but the largest you can get is 3kg. This will also apply to all levels of the cake.
To help you decide, we have put together a range of selections that work beautifully together so take a look! http://www.thecheesekitchen.co.uk/index.php?webpage=store.php&cID=15439
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| The Bromham Cheese wedding Cake |
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