Help...I'm going to try a tilted/whimsy cake for the first time for my daughter's 1st bday. we don't need a huge cake so i'm going to do only 2 tiers and was planning 4", 5" and 6" for the top and 6", 7" and 8" for the bottom. however, i've only seen larger tilted cakes and am not sure if a smaller one would look ok and be stable enough. any thoughts?
I've done several smaller topsy turvy cakes before. I did 8", 6" and 3" cakes and then even added in a fourth tear that was fake. I'll try to attach a picture of one of the cakes here....if you look in my pics you will see others. It doesn't have to feed a lot to be fun - so don't let that slow you down!
Good Luck!
SLK
Can dowels and cake circles be used for support on these types of cakes instead of the plates with legs like on the tutorial?
First, the Dora on top is a toy. I wish I could sculpt like that!
As for the support- I only use dowels, I don't have any of those other supports. On these cakes though, I always use foamcore board as the base - it holds up really well and it's easy to run a dowel through the whole thing.
ok...so I think it went pretty well. pictures are posted in the gallery. first time using MMF as well. Any suggestions for getting the MMF not to wrinkle at the bottom of a round cake? Is there a secret or is it just a matter of patience? thanks again for the help!!
thanks very much.
not sure if you saw the right pic though...nothing tiny in the middle. the sizes i used were 3", 6" and 8".
anyway, i just used cardboard cake circles and wooden dowels...it's what i had on hand and i can't get any supplies here. and followed the instructions in the tutorial. the top and bottom tiers are chocolate chip cake with choc bc filling and the middle tier and smash cake are white cake with strawberry bc filling.
belafia,
Your cake came out great! My 4yr old just loves it! Great job!
belafia,
You did a great job! As for your mmf issues - yes, practice makes perfect. I actually cried the first few times I used mmf....real actual tears. I almost gave up....but I didn't. I found that in the beginning it is helpful not to roll the mmf to thin, when it's thicker it is more forgiving. Also, roll it out several inches bigger than you need, this gives you extra room to stretch and play. You could also raise the cake up off the table when you are covering it (sit it on a coffee can or something. Then you can get it smooth all arounc and then trim off the excess.....but mostly, it takes practice. By your 3rd time you will have no bumps. I think it's awsome! I love the elmo on top, he's perfect.
And, your not an idiot - your a proud cake momma! as you should be.
zmama - the small orange layer is a dummy so it wouldn't crush - but, you could put cake there. Just remember that it's not cake resting on cake when you stack, it's the cake baseboard resting on dowels. That way the cake should not get crushed.
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