I am making a 3 tiered wedding cake 12,9,6. Can you give me timeline for how long this will take me? I realize the decorating will depend on my experience. I am just wondering how close I can bake the cake and decorate before the wedding day?

What's the design? What recipe are you using? Using fondant? Which type of icing? I think Super Jan (moderator with the hook up on links) will probably direct you to the "Everything you need to know threads" very soon.

Here is the cake... I will have the snowflakes done and ready to attach.

I baked last night for a three tier tomorrow afternoon. Tonight, I will make the fondant (MFF-Michelle Foster Fondant). Tonight I will fill, stack and ice, and tomorrow morning, I will cover and attach my snowflakes as well. I'm doing a snowflake theme wedding cake myself.

For a Saturday wedding, I bake on Wed, Fill and crumb coat on Thurs, and finish on Fri.

Make sure to have more time than you think you will need.

good luck
hamie

I always plan so I have any order finished the night before it is due. Only one time did I figure I could decorate the day of, and it was not fun and I was totally stressed and barely made it on time. Like hamie said, always have more time than you think you will need. I like to finish the night before and then relax and make any minor finishing touches the day of delivery or pickup. Good luck to you! That's a really pretty cake.

Totally depends on your skill and speed.

I can name that tune, uh, I mean decorate that cake in about 2 hours. Did a cake last weekend .... forgot camera so no pic .... and going from naked cake from the freezer to totally finished was 1 hour and 57 minutes. 5 tiers total. Delivered one an hour ago .... 5 tiers. From naked cake to finished was a little over 3 hours.

But it's taken awhile to get to that point. My first cake was a little 3 tiered job and it took me over 8 hours.

Agree with the above posters .... definitely plan to have it finished the day before. It's less stressful and you have a cushion for those "just in case" things that you never plan on happening.