Cotswold 4 Tier Wedding Cake : Decorate Your Own
Impress your guests with our ready-made wedding cake with four glorious tiers of our rich English fruit cake iced in elegant ivory sugarpaste and topped with the sweetest Tea Rose Buds. Perfect as it is or add some additional decoration of your own. Inspired by cottage gardens full of roses in charming Cotswold villages and the various shades of green found on smartly painted doors in the many market towns of the Cotswolds, if you're looking for a classic Wedding Cake inspired by our beautiful surroundings you're in luck!
Supplied with ivory ribbon and additional lengths of our beautiful soft green ribbon, our Cotswold 4 Tier Wedding Cake is made to our original award-winning fruit cake recipe. - Full of fruit and nuts, generously laced with French brandy then slow baked in small batches before being carefully hand decorated, it's a proven favourite.
Use this elegant but simply iced four-tier cake as a centrepiece to any celebration table, wedding or anniversary, safe in the knowledge that it’s made to the same exacting standards as all other Meg Rivers products.
The top tier with it's hand applied real rosebuds is baked in a 2" tin, second tier is a 4" tin, the 3rd tier a 6" tin and the bottom tier is baked in an 8" tin.
Supplied on boards with additional spare silver boards for transferring the cake to if required.
** All Fruit Wedding cakes have minimum 2 months shelf life **
Fruit Tier Weights - 2" Top Tier 140g, 4" Middle Tier 750g, 6" Middle Tier 1.7kg, 8" Bottom Tier 2.9kg
Bottom and middle tiers are approx 7cm in height and top tier is 5.5cm in height, excluding the height of the cake boards.
(our four tier cake can be cut into approx 72 wedding finger portions)
How to cut your Meg Rivers Rich English Fruit Cake.
- Use a sharp and serrated knife (a good bread knife is ideal).
- Cut in a sawing motion from the outside of the cake towards the centre.
- Ideally clean the blade between each slice.
Marzipan (20%) (Sugar, Almonds, Water, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar Syrup, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate), Mixed Vine Fruits (18%) (Currants, Raisins, Sultanas), Sugar Paste (18%) (Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Water, Palm Oil, Humectant: Vegetable Glycerine; Emulsifier: Mono- And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids; Stabiliser: Tragacanth Gum; Preservative: Potassium Sorbate; Natural Flavouring, Colour: Iron Oxide), Butter (Milk, Salt), Free Range Egg, Glacé Cherries (5%) (Cherry, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Colour: Anthocyanins; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid, Preservative: Sulphur Dioxide (Sulphites)), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Brown Sugar, Mixed Peel (4%) (Orange Peel, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Lemon Peel, Sugar, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Preservative: Sulphur Dioxide (Sulphites)), Walnuts, Brandy, Ground Almonds, Crystallised Ginger (Ginger, Cane Sugar), Neutral Spray (Water, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Gelling Agent: Pectins; Acidity Regulators: Citric Acid, Potassium Citrates; Preservative Potassium Sorbate; Natural Flavouring), Apricot Jam (Glucose Fructose Syrup, Apricot, Gelling Agent: Pectin, Sugar, Acidity Regulators: Citric Acid, Trisodium Citrate), Sweet Mixed Spices (Coriander, Cinnamon, Caraway Seeds, Allspice, Cloves, Cardamom, Ginger).
Tea Rose Bud is for decoration only, do not consume.
May contain traces of other nuts. Although every care has been taken to remove fruit stones and nutshell some may remain.
FULLY ICED FRUIT CAKE NUTRITION INFORMATION (Typical values per 100g) | |
Energy | 1887kJ |
Fat | 17.0g |
Carbohydrate | 69.0g |
Protein | 4.7g |
Salt | 0.20g |
Standard UK Mainland Delivery: £6.50 (free on orders over £159) Orders received before midday are usually dispatched the same day, using Royal Mail 24 hour tracked service, or DPD depending on weight. Allow 1-2 working days for delivery from despatch. Next / Named UK Mainland WEEKDAY: £8.00 Next Working Day (Orders must be received by midday) If you specify a future weekday delivery date, we endeavour to deliver on or just before that date. Next / Named UK Mainland SATURDAY: £9.50 If your selected delivery date is a SATURDAY you must choose this option. If you specify a Saturday delivery date, we will endeavour to deliver before 4pm. UK Highlands and Islands: £9.50 - 3-5 Working Days If you specify a future delivery date, we endeavour to deliver on or just before that date. Please take delivery 1 or 2 days before a special occasion. UK Offshore:Includes Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and some British Forces overseas addresses, are sent with Royal Mail. Sadly this delivery method is offered at customers risk due to inconsistency in the overseas Royal Mail service. Named day services: Whilst we always make every effort to ensure parcels arrive on customer's preferred delivery date, regretfully we cannot guarantee that parcels will arrive on a specific day or at a specific time. All orders subject to stock availability. Overseas: Due to changes in customs regulations and practices, regretfully we are no longer able to send orders abroad. We are happy to send to a UK address to enable you to arrange onward delivery yourself. Shelf life: Most of our products have a 7- 10 day shelf life from time of despatch. Please bear this in mind if choosing a preferred delivery date. This does not apply to Rich Fruit products and biscuits which have a much longer shelf life.