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The cake at a South Asian wedding shares the stage with mithai rather than replacing it — which changes how you order: the cake is the moment and the photos, the sweets are the volume.
The one question to ask before any tasting: does the baker do proper eggless cakes, and are they any good at them?
If a meaningful part of either family avoids eggs — common across Hindu and Jain households — the answer is yes, at least for some tiers. Eggless baking is a genuine skill; a baker who treats it as an afterthought produces the dense, dry version everyone politely leaves.
Bakers who work South Asian weddings regularly usually make eggless their default and can do it to the same standard as everything else. Taste the eggless specifically, not just the house favourite.
Smaller than the guest count suggests, because mithai and the dessert table carry most of the sweet load. Many couples order a showpiece of two to four tiers plus sheet cakes cut in the kitchen — same servings, far lower cost per slice.
Confirm your hall's cutting fee before deciding: some banquet halls charge per guest to cut an outside cake, which changes the arithmetic.
No published Canadian figures for South Asian wedding cakes are specific enough to quote. What sets it: tiers and servings, sugar-flower and hand-finished detail versus simpler finishes, structural work (suspended or sculpted designs), delivery and on-site assembly, and eggless or allergy requirements.
Delivery is not the place to economise — a multi-tier cake travels badly, and the baker assembling it on site is what stands between you and a leaning centrepiece.
Yes, and it should — send the baker your outfit and decor palette, mandap photos, or an invitation card. Repeating the lehenga's embroidery or the stage florals on the tiers is exactly what a good cake designer does with a few weeks' notice.
Three to six months out for a custom design at a busy bakery, longer for peak summer Saturdays. Tastings happen at booking; final design and counts are usually locked about a month before the wedding.
The reception carries the main cake. Smaller events increasingly get their own — a single-tier at the mehndi or a cutting cake at the engagement — and ordering them from the same baker in the same palette costs less than separate orders.