Nicola at The Pretty Sugar Cake Company stole our tastebuds when we joined her and her husband at a cake tasting afternoon in their wine shop! We tried two other cake makers’ cakes previously to this, one too light and lacking flavour, and the other too dense. Nicola got it right in the middle, and we loved her beautiful work with the neat icing. We chose to have three cakes rather than one big cake, I mean, why not?! We had one for the Friday Night Feast, a cherry bakewell flavour decorated with small piped dots, icing swirls and real cherries. On the wedding day, a two-tiered hazelnut praline and Victoria sponge tower. The piped dots this time in a copper colour with our wedding logo embossed on the front, finished with a ribbon tied in a bow to bring in many aspects of our day. To finish the wedding weekend at the Wardman Winter Wonderland Brunch, we enjoyed a small but sparkly carrot cake with orange buttercream. Nicola makes amazing sugared flowers, which were the feature of this cake.
And if three cakes weren’t enough, we had several amazing spreads throughout the weekend courtesy of Purple Chilli Events Catering. Mark and the team understood our brief to a tee! Right down to discussing the colour of the crockery, the napkin swans for the ‘medieval style’ Friday Night Feast, and the grazing-style continental spread for the morning after. It was just wonderful. We couldn’t have asked for more, and the beef Wellington was cooked to perfection—it went down a treat with all of our guests.
