make a wedding cake with tiers
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Whether you've been baking for years, or have limited experience in the kitchen, creating a tiered wedding cake at home can be overwhelming. But with the right tools, you can create tiered or even pillared cakes for any occasion. These techniques focus on support and can be used on round or square-tiered cakes.
Things You'll Need
- 1/4 inch wooden dowel rods
- Pair of shears
- Cardboard cake rounds
- Frosting
- Plastic cake pillars and separator plates for pillared cakes (optional)
Instructions
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Begin with your bottom layer and frost with your choice of frosting. Use a cardboard cake separator the same size as the tier to be stacked on top of this cake. Gently place it on top of your bottom layer. Make sure the separator is centered as this will be your guide in the placement of support dowels. Remove the separator for the next step.
2
Take one of your wooden dowels and push it completely into your bottom layer. Be sure to have the dowels situated within the area of the cardboard separator you used to mark the top of this cake layer. Carefully make a mark on the dowel where it is flush with your cake and remove the dowel.
3
Cut the marked dowel with your shears and use this dowel as a guide for cutting the rest of your support dowels. Cut six to eight dowels total, depending on how large an area your bottom layer is.
4
Place your first dowel into your cake and repeat it with the remaining cut dowels making sure they are an equal distance apart in a circular pattern right under where the cake separator will be. Be sure to push the dowels completely into the cake until they are touching your cake board or plate underneath.
5
Use the same technique for placing rods into your second layer as with the first. But this second layer will be resting on a cardboard cake separator the same size as you used as a guide for the dowels on the bottom layer. You can use fewer rods for this second layer as it's a smaller area. Set this second layer on top of your bottom layer directly over the wooden support dowels.
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Set your third and smallest tier on a cake separator. This third layer of your cake will not need dowels placed in it as it will not be supporting anything. You will have a small cake separator between it and the middle layer for added support. Place this top layer gently on your cake. Frost and decorate as usual.
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Realize that making a pillared tier cake with space between layers rather than a stacked tier cake changes the procedure slightly. Use wooden dowels on the bottom layer and add the second layer as usual for a stacked tier cake.
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Place a plastic pillar separator between the second and third tiers. These can be purchased anywhere cake decorating or wedding supplies are sold and have attachable pillar legs and two pre-made plastic cake separators. Add your top layer and decorate as usual.
Tips &- Warnings
Make sure you have a solid base under your cake that can handle the weight of extra layers.
Be sure that each cake layer is level before construction.
When transporting large or pillared cakes, move them in sections to avoid accidents.
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