had a customer order a cake with NO filling at all? Not even buttercream frosting? I have an order for a cake to serve 40 people for a birthday party. It's going to be three tiers, and she said she wants no filling at all. I've never had that order! I sent a clarifying email just making sure she understands that each tier is comprised of two layers of cake, but haven't heard back from her yet. This seems like a strange request to me!
I explain that the cake needs at least a thin layer of buttercream to hold the pieces together. They usually agree. Sometimes they think if will be cheaper with no filling. Since I don't charge for filling anyway, it can't save them any money, and can a challenge to keeping the cake together.
Some folks don't think of the icing between layers as filling. They think of lemon curd or raspberry jam, etc.
Perhaps that is her confusion.
Personally, I would never give a cake to a client with NOTHING between the layers/torting.
I actually just did a cake like this. I was specifically told NO filling. I froze the two layers together and when they thawed, they were throughly stuck. No worries about them sliding around. I was told they tasted awesome. It just looked like a 5" cake layer instead of 2 2" put together.
-Sarah
I live in South Florida, and you rarely see a cake WITH layers or fillings. My own wedding cake was like that- I didn't specify that I didn't want fillings- it's just the way they do things here. I've been to three kids' birthdays in the last few weeks and only one had fillings between the layers because it was from Publix.
I believe they use deeper pan sizes to create height (although they're not as high as some of the cakes I see here).
And 95% of the time they are soaked in a syrup wash.
If you don't put filling why would you tort? If it is going to be tiered it will be doweled won't it. That should keep it stable I would think. Also if you put one layer on top of the other your cake should be moist enough to stick to the other one. You could always use a wash of simple syrup between layers just to be sure. That will soak into the cake and no one will even know it was there.
I have had orders like that. There are people that just like the flavor of the cake. That is also the way they do cakes back in my country, so when I find people from there they usually ask for NO filling. I just put the two layers together and they stick with no problems at all.
My brother in law got married a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't do the cake because I was planning their wedding (they came home to get married) AND I was a MOH, plus my daughter was the flower girl. I didn't want to take on the making of the cake as well.
When the cake was cut, there was no filling in it at all. They cut it in coffee serving sizes (versus dessert serving sizes) and I guess it was easier to keep those cut pieces together.
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