Wedding Cake Size?

Decorating By sancar80 Updated 9 Jul 2006 , 9:01pm by Molly2

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sancar80 Posted 9 Jul 2006 , 6:46pm
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Hello everyone. Hope everyone is doing good today.

I have a question for anyone who can help me. I have this wedding cake coming up tomorrow. My first actually. I am having an issue with the sizes I will use.

the brides cake topper is large, I will not be able to use a 6" top tier. I will instead use an 8" tier.

The cake the bride wants is somewhat offset, to get the offset effect, will it be okay if I went with an 8", 10", and 12" or 8" 10" and 14"...not sure if I'm explaining myself. Take a look a the picture below and see if you can tell me what sizes I will need to get the same effect.

Thanks in advance!

Carmen
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Molly2 Posted 9 Jul 2006 , 6:55pm
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I would do the 8', 10' and 12 because I look at the cake as to how much space is on each tier unless you plan to decorate each tier then you might need more space.

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sancar80 Posted 9 Jul 2006 , 8:33pm
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Ah, ok.

Thanks Molly!

The cake is to look exactly like this. Minus the roses on top. Other than that, she wants the exact same cake.

Just frosting and ribbon. Should be easy.

I just got back from Michaels, and I was flipping through a wedding cake book. It looks as if they go 4" in between each tier.

i.e..8"12"and 16".

Would I be able to do this too? Or would it look funny?

TIA!

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boonenati Posted 9 Jul 2006 , 8:38pm
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Originally Posted by sancar80

Ah, ok.

Thanks Molly!

The cake is to look exactly like this. Minus the roses on top. Other than that, she wants the exact same cake.

Just frosting and ribbon. Should be easy.

I just got back from Michaels, and I was flipping through a wedding cake book. It looks as if they go 4" in between each tier.

i.e..8"12"and 16".

Would I be able to do this too? Or would it look funny?

TIA!



I think you would get too much of a gap in an 8 12 16. This cake here was a 6 10 14, and there is a LOT more gap in this than the cake you were asked for.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=boonenati&cat=0&pos=134
So the safest is to go for the 8 10 12, and you'll get the same distance in between cakes as you have in the picture, well at least very similar.

Nati

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sancar80 Posted 9 Jul 2006 , 8:41pm
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Thanks so much Nati! I will do that then, 8" 10" and 12".

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boonenati Posted 9 Jul 2006 , 8:44pm
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Thanks so much Nati! I will do that then, 8" 10" and 12".



If in doubt, it helps to stack up your cake tins the same way you'd set up your cakes, and see if you're happy with it.
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Molly2 Posted 9 Jul 2006 , 9:01pm
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Thats what I would do stack your tins that will give you a great idea and then you would know for sure what your working with.


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