I've never made a cake that is so stacked and heavy. This thing must weigh 30 pounds. Anyhow, I have a wedding cake of this size due in 3 weeks and I've never stacked cakes so I thought I'd give it a shot before it was too late. I used the crystal clear dividers and hidden pillars. It's a 12", 10" and 8" all torted and filled. The decorations will not be like this for the actual wedding cake, it will be a top of roses and then each border will be roses. I really didn't want to make that many roses for my practice cake. Does it look even? How do you get a cake perfectly centered? My middle tier seems to be a bit off...
I think your cake looks great!!! I made my first wedding cake this weekend and used the hidden pillars between the tiers. I think they are much more stable. I inserted the pillars and transported each tier searately and assembled at the venue.
It went really well. All I had to do was add the tiers and add the borders to the top two tiers. It took about 30 minutes total.
Cindy
What a pretty cake! I'd never know it was your first wedding / stacked cake. It doesn't look like the middle tier is "off" at all from the picture. I just finished my wilton course 3 and my instructor mentioned measuring before stacking . . . she said that she usually eyeballs it but you could actually get a ruler out and measure, making little marks on the cake, where the next tier would go. I know that most people make a mark with the plate but I'd imagine that if it wasn't centered and you moved it, then you could have marks showing. BUT, I am not an expert seeing as my only stacked cake was for the class and I've never done a wedding!
Where do you get your crystal clear dividers? Are they just clear cake plates? I really like the thought of using the hidden pillars and clear plates vs. using dowels and cake boards.
I think that your cake is great and even. I have discovered the stress-free cake supports that work great. They are easy to use and are very durable and steady. An example is that I had a four tiered wedding cake that I had to assemble in the kitchen because it was too hot to set it outside. When they carried the cake to the table, the cake did not move or sway.
They work the same as a hidden pillar, but gives you a stacked look. The system is a steel ring with plastic legs that you screw on, that way you can adjust your height. You can even adjust the height to be a couple of inches off of the cake if you wanted to add flowers inbetween layers to give it a floating look.
They are also very strong. This spring, I made a five tiered cake that looked like a hawaiian waterfall. The bottom layer was 16" round and it fed 300. I off-centered the cakes so they appeared to be a stair-step. I used the stress-free supports and the cake was very stable, even when my husband and I had to move the table, after the cake was set up. The cake did not move. The best part is not having to cut dowel rods, which I could never get straight anyway.
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