Stacking A Tiered Wedding Cake
Stacking A Tiered Wedding Cake. Take a repair kit consisting of piping bag, spare flowers, royal icing, any other decorations, palette knifes, brushes,. I center a cake pan on top of the bottom tier and draw a circle around it with a fondant tool to create a guide to place the cake.
When you bring your freshly baked cake out of the oven, make sure you allow it to cool completely. 5 in the bottom tier; Repeat this procedure for each cake as you stack them.
Start At The Center Top, Press It Through The Top Tier And It Will Hit Cardboard.
Make sure your cake is very cold and your buttercream hard before stacking so as to minimize the damage at the base of the cake when moving it. If your cake is not levelled the dowel will stick out of the cake that is completely fine as this will result in a complete levelled stacked cake in the end. I recommend stacking the tiers of your wedding cake at home!
Use This Outline To Guide The Insertion Of The Dowel Rods.
Once baked, the cakes should shrink a bit to fit on the boards. The remaining cake tiers should be placed on cake boards of corresponding sizes, eg: 5 in the bottom tier;
You've Already Assembled A Three Tier Cake So You're Aware Of Not Stacking Fruit Cakes On Top Of Sponge And How To Graduate The Sizes.
Chill the cake for 24 hours. The sharpened end should penetrate through each cake board and then embed itself into the base cake board. I center a cake pan on top of the bottom tier and draw a circle around it with a fondant tool to create a guide to place the cake.
Your Dowels Might Be A Little Bigger (For A 6 Tier, I'll Use The Wilton Hollow Plastic Dowels.
Transport the cake in the boot of the car on a completely flat surface. Properly dowel the cake tiers. Cut all the dowels of the same height for each tier.
Prepare Cakes, Covering With Icing Or Fondant.
When you bring your freshly baked cake out of the oven, make sure you allow it to cool completely. The dowels should be exactly as high as each layer of the cake. Mark where your tier should be on the cake.