Cheese Wedding Cakes

Dress? ✔️   Venue? ✔️.  Flowers? ✔️   Cheese?   Here's the big question - how will cheese feature on your special day?

Put cheese at the heart of your wedding celebrations with a magnificent centrepiece of artisan cheese that will not only look beautiful but also offer your guests a delectable feast to enjoy and keep up their dancing energy!

Cheese wedding cakes provide a fabulous opportunity to add a special touch to your celebrations as they can be personalised in a number of ways to create a traditional tiered tower with a difference.

CHOOSING YOUR CHEESE WEDDING CAKE

Choosing cheese from Slate ensures you have delicious artisan cheese in perfect condition on your big day. We have designed a range of cheese wedding cakes that cater for celebrations of different sizes from 20 to 135 guests. We recommend 70g to 100g of cheese per person depending on other food being served during the celebrations and your available budget. In designing the stacks, we have considered dietary requirements to offer pasteurised options for those unable to eat raw milk cheeses, and some cheeses made with vegetarian rennet. Each of our cheese wedding cakes offers a balanced selection of cheese styles once it has been dismantled for eating.

Within the carefully chosen layers of our cheese wedding cakes we hope you’ll find cheeses you love, including your favourite cheese or one that is important to your relationship – perhaps a cheese made in significant place such as where you met, first went on holiday, or got engaged? For couples getting married here in Suffolk we have a several options showcasing East Anglian cheeses which offer guests a change to discover delicious local cheeses often little known outside the region.

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ASSEMBLING YOUR CHEESE WEDDING CAKE

Our cheese wedding cakes are available for nationwide courier delivery or collection from either of our Suffolk shops. The cheeses arrive unadorned, ready for assembly and decoration. Building a tower of cheese is straightforward, often your caterer or florist can help do this on the day. The cheeses come clearly labelled so they are easily identified and can be stacked in the correct order.

We have the following advice for creating and decorating a stunning tower of cheese:

• Choose an attractive presentation board on which to build your cake - perhaps a piece of wood or a slate tile of appropriate size for the diameter of your base cheese. Ensure that it is clean, dry and food-safe.
• Place the base layer of cheese on the board and stack remaining cheeses on top, in descending size order.
• Soft cheeses are best stacked in their wooden boxes or presented on the side as they will not retain their shape or stability once warmed to room temperature. Empty wooden boxes can be used as spacers to add extra height to a stack.
• Once assembled, your cheese cake is ready to decorate and here, the sky's the limit for inspiration and personal touches! Flowers, foliage, ribbons, herbs and fruit are all popular choices to place around the base or balance on the tiers of cheese. Decorations can be wedged between layers of cheese or small pins may be needed to secure them, however it is extremely important that the number of pins is counted carefully and they are all retrieved before serving the cheese.
• Choose an eye-catching flourish to complete the look of your tower of cheese. Perhaps a small turret of ash-coated goat's cheese, or a heart-shaped Godminster Cheddar, Baron Bigod or Neufchâtel. Alternatively, you could choose a traditional or bespoke cake topper to balance on the final layer of cheese.
• After your guests have been wowed by your cheese cake and their taste buds tickled, it will be time to tuck in and enjoy the cheese. Carefully disassemble the stack and serve the individual cheeses. We provide cards to place beside each cheese providing information including its name, type of milk and tasting notes. Importantly these cards also note whether the cheese is made from pasteurised or unpasteurised milk; its suitability for vegetarians; and allergens information.
• Alongside the cheese be sure to provide a selection of crackers including gluten free options as cheese is a popular choice for those following a gluten free diet, and of course a range of accompaniments such as chutney, chilli jam, nuts and honey to ensure your wedding cheese board is a truly memorable treat for all your guests.

GALLERY

Here is some cheese wedding cake inspiration! The photos below showcase a few of our favourite creations at recent wedding fairs and receptions.

One word "AMAZING!
The cake looked and tasted amazing, we had so many compliments on it, in fact it was so lovely all of our guests ate it and we had no leftovers for after the wedding! As soon as I walked into the venue and saw the cake I couldn’t believe how great it looked, the presentation was exactly as you described, the service was A* - we will definitely be recommending this to family & friends who are wanting a cheese cake for any special occasion 😊 Thank you so much for all your help.” 

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Cheese is not one of those wedding items that must be ordered months ahead of time so if there is a cheese-gap in your forthcoming celebrations shop now or get in touch for any last-minute advice!

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