Making A Stacked Wedding Cake
Place the bottom layer of the bottom tier on a cake drum or serving dish. You want a recipe with structurebox mixes make cake so soft that making a naked cake out of one would be a huge challenge.
Or in other words a wall of thicker frosting around the cake edges because we dont want all the filling to squish out from our layers due to the weight of the stacked cakes.
Making a stacked wedding cake. Carefully stack your next cake layer on the frosted or filled bottom layer. Evenly coat the layer with frosting or icing. Combine one Betty Crocker cake mix 2 eggs 2 egg yolks 13 cup vegetable oil 1oz.
Read the blog post here. If your wedding cake is supposed to sit on top of a metal cake plateau at the reception site do not transport it on top of the cake plateau. Lift top off cake and set cut side up on a work surface.
Place the cake on a cake board with about a half-inch clearance on all sides you can always trim the cake board down if you dont use that much frosting. Using an offset spatula and an icing. Now we need to make a dam.
Aug 20 2016 - DIY your own wedding cake for a budget-friendly wedding. For a three-tier cake you need to make three cakes of 12 9 and 6 as well as a massive amount of icing. Leave bottom half on cardboard round.
Make sure the cake is completely level using a level from the hardware store set on the top. Deep to make a guide then cut all the way through cake steadying top lightly with your hand. The stacked wedding cake tier delicacy originated in a medieval tradition whereby individual cakes were stacked up as high as possible and the bride and groom were asked to kiss over the top of it.
A cake drum is about a 1-inch-thick cake. The remaining cake tiers should be placed on cake boards of corresponding sizes eg. Chocolate or vanilla pudding mix and 1 14 cup milk into a bowl.
Okay now we can frost our tiers. Spread a generous layer of filling on each cake layer. Place the bottom layer of each cake on a corresponding cake board minus the bottom tier.
Repeat stacking additional cake layers on cake boards stacking no more than 2 layers 6 in. With a long serrated knife cut around cake layer 1 in. Pipe a circle of frosting around the circumference of the cake and then neatly pipe in your filling.
For example place the. You just add more powdered sugar until you get an almost play dough texture. Milk will add density to the cake mix and eggs contain protein which will firm up the texture.
A successful kiss without the cakes tumbling down meant a happy marriage. Cut dowel rods to height of stacked layers. As far as how many supports per tier I find that I use the following guide.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Instead when you are stacking your tiers glue the bottom tier to a sturdy foil-lined cake board with some frosting. Diameter of the cake2 1.
The bottom tier is usually on a thicker cake board or even a. The board should be thick and strong enough to bear the weight of the entire cake. Assembling a Stacked Cake Using icing glue the bottom tier onto a cake board.
An 8 cake should be placed. Cake drums are normally about one inch thick to. If youre using a soft filling like mousse or whipped cream pipe a ring of buttercream around the edge of the cake to contain the filling.
Place the next layer on top and repeat until all the layers in this tier are stacked. Or less on each cake. I used this basic white cake recipe which fair warning is really sweet but there are plenty more out there.
You should use a recipe specifically designed to be a wedding cake as it will ensure that it is sturdy enough and that it makes the right amount of batter and icing. I would insert 6 supports into the 12 inch tier in order to support the 10 inch tier going on top of it. The pudding will add firmness to the cakes as well.
Level fill stack and ice 2 cake layers on cake board. Split each layer of orange sponge cake on cardboard round in half horizontally. So for example if I were stacking a 10inch round on top of a 12 inch round I would do 102 16.
Use this method to make extra-tall cakes taller than 6 in. Make the cake from scratch. Place the bottom tier of the cake onto the cake drum.
