How To Make A Tiered Cake For Beginners

How to Brand Tiered Cakes

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Are you set up to take your cake literally to the next level? Well, I'm talking about making tiered cakes. Yous know, those ones that are stacked on top of another, making the cake higher and with different levels.

Tiered cakes adds that wow cistron to the block, making it a flake more fun and special for the effect. I know there are plenty of one layer cakes that are amazing, however, a multi-tiered cake seems to get more attention considering of its 'heightened presence'. And of form, another reason for wanting a bigger cake is to have more servings. Making a one tier cake to feed 300 will accept upward a lot of table space as oppose to making a five tier cake.

The well-nigh of import thing to remember when constructing a stacked cake is back up. Acceptable support is needed to brand sure that the cake layer that was stacked volition not sink into the layer underneath it.

This tutorial will show how to stack a block using dowels as support. There are dissimilar kinds of dowels that can exist used to support a cake. Shown below in the photo are the kinds of dowels that I use nearly of the time. I apply wood, hollow plastic, plastic straws and even skewers. Other cake decorators have too used bubble tea straws, thicker wooden dowels and other kinds of support systems. All of these dowels has to be nutrient-safety.

cake dowels

The dowels that I often utilize, especially for big cakes or cakes with at to the lowest degree 3 tiers, are wooden and plastic dowels. These ii are very strong materials and will agree up very well. To cut the wooden dowels, use a pair of sharp shears or a small saw. To cutting the hollow, plastic dowels, use a serrated pocketknife or a heavy duty utility knife. Plastic dowels are a bigger than wooden dowels, therefore it would (very slightly) affect the serving portions. With that said, I do prefer using plastic dowels nowadays because I find it easier to cut than the wooden ones. Apply a cutting board underneath to safely cut the dowels.

For smaller cakes (with two tiers at virtually), I have as well used plastic drinking straws and wooden skewers. I like using these because they are easy to cut. What I practise is I cutting the straws and skewers the same height every bit the cake. I place the straws in the cake and for additional back up, I insert the skewers within the straws.

Then let'south start stacking a block...

Stacked Tiered Cakes Construction

For this tutorial, we are going to build a three tier cake using hollow, plastic dowels. The cake sizes starting from the lesser are 12", 9" and 6". Of course, you can use different cakes sizes according to the block requirements.

A multi-tiered block is going to exist heavy, and so it needs a sturdy base to be set upon. I usually use a cake drum that is 1/2" thick for the base. Another pick would exist to apply a masonite board cutting into shape and covered with cake foil. Whatever you choose to use, be sure that it is food-safe and strong enough to back up the weight of the cake.

Set the biggest cake on the cake pulsate and fill and frost as usual. Place in the refrigerator until it is chilled. It is easier to work with a chilled block with the frosting that is hard than soft.

I usually just estimate where the cake on top volition go. Only to exist more than precise, accept some other cardboard cake round or pan the same size as the next tier to be added on elevation. Place it in the middle of the cake or wherever the cake is going to be placed. Lightly trace the outline with a toothpick or a pocketknife.

Take a plastic dowel and insert into the cake, within the markings. Marking the height of the cake with your thumb, take the dowel out, marker with a pen and cut. Apply that dowel as a guide when cut the other dowels. I used 4 plastic dowels. If using wooden dowels, I would insert about 6 of them.

Tiered cake 1st level

Place the 2d tier (ix" cake) on a cardboard cake circumvolve that is the same size. Fill, frost and chill. Practise the aforementioned for the smallest cake (6") that will go along top. Repeat the dowelling process for the 9" cake.

Tiered cakes 2nd level

To place the 2d tier on top of the first, carefully accept the cake with the hand and use a metallic spatula to help guide the block in the center. Do the same with the smallest cake.

Stacked cakes top level

Decorate the block equally desired. Finally to secure all the cakes together and brand sure they won't slide off, have a big wooden dowel, tad bit shorter than the cake. Sharpen one end of the dowel and with a assistance of a hammer, advisedly bulldoze it in all the layers until it reaches the block drum. Cover the hole fabricated on top with buttercream.

Stacked cakes

And there you take it - a tiered cake.

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