I made my 1st stacked cake this weekend, for my niece's 5th birthday. When we removed the top layer to cut, all the icing from the bottom came away with the top!! It was crappy, the bottom cake had no icing on it. Dh said he couldn't think of anyway to not have that happen, but i'm sure something can be done!! I've never seen a wedding cake with no icing on it.

What to do??

you can put a little ps where you are going to stack the second cake on top and that prevents the icing from sticking to the board of the top cake. And make sure your icing has crusted on the bottom cake before stacking.

HTH

The crusting BC will help a lot. Look at these pics of me cutting a cake: http://cateritsimple.com/_wsn/page19.html Notice the dowels are ever so slightly below the surface of the icing; notice the imprint in the top of the icing that shows the separator plate was sitting directly on the icing. Yet none of the icing pulled away.

Good, crusting BC.

I prefer a non-crusting icing, so I sprinkle coarse sugar on the top of the cake where the plate will sit.

I'm new to this so are you supposed to frost each layer individually and let them crust before stacking? how do you then stack without messing up the top layer? And then how do you cover the seperating plate?I have apparently been doing this all wrong....

I have also heard about putting a wax paper in between the cakes. This would just be another method but, I personally like the ps.

Whenever I do a stacked cake, I put coconut on the top of the iced cake where the plate for the layer above it will be sitting. I always let my customers know that on a stacked cake there is coconut between the layers. Occasionally I have had them request that I use something else so then I sprinkle some powdered sugar on the crusted icing. Hope this helps!

Im glad someone else doesn't like coconut, I was beginning to think I was the only left

When I do stacked cakes I always put a circle of parchment paper the size of the cake board right on top of the dowl rods and then I set the cake right on top and when removed all the icing stays put. I have also used wax paper but I think parchment works a little better.

I used buttercream dream, and it crusted pretty well, i thought. I'll try the PS next time! Thanks!!

I hate coconut too!! YUCK!

I am sending my family to live with you guys. None of them eat coconut except my daughter in law. I love coconut and never make anything with it unless I am taking it to a pot luck or something.

Diane

I'll be more careful next time about using the "c" word! LOL

I would think something was very wrong with my piece of cake if I got a mouthful of coconut or - worse - granulated sugar. Powdered sugar is what I use between tiers. I do love coconut, but if I wasn't expecting it, I would think that was freaking weird.

Yeah I don't think I'd like to serve a cake w/ coconut on it. Although I love coconut, there's tons of people that don't. I always place a circle of wax paper the same size as the next stacked tier. Once the paper is laid, I then sprinkle some PS on that before the next tier goes down. I always let my customers know that there is wax paper there as well.