Making A Tiered Wedding Cake

Insert dowel rods into cake about 1 1 2 in.

Making a tiered wedding cake. Insert dowel rods into cakes spacing about 1 1 2in. This is a 2 tier wedding cake. Here are some videos showing how to make a tiered cake.

Making a dramatic tiered cake can be tricky but if you follow these steps carefully you can have your cake and eat it too. To make this wedding cake you ll need 24 cups of cake batter. Before you mix any ingredients together preheat the oven to 325 degrees and spray the bottoms and sides of the three round cake pans with nonstick cooking spray.

For a three tier cake you need to make three cakes of 12 9 and 6 as well as a massive amount of icing. Measure height of each stacked cake except the top tier. Continue reading below tradition has it that the bottom tier is for eating at the ceremony the middle tier for distributing after the event and the top tier was saved.

Cut dowel rods to height of stacked layers. Learn how to make a tired cake the easy way. Cut the dowel rods even with the height of the cakes.

Take the topmost tier and carefully place it on the rest of the stacked cake making sure the dowel rod that is protruding out goes through the cake from the bottom through the center of the cake board. Dia insert at least 3 additional dowel rods off center of tier see step 4 above. To avoid 1 overwhelming your mixer with excess cake batter and 2 over mixing or under mixing the batter.

Use this method to make extra tall cakes taller than 6 in. For cakes larger than 12 in. How to make a diy homemade wedding cake.