I am a relative newby to cake decorating. I am making a two tier bridal shower cake. I have 3 inch round pans and am using 14" and 10". After torting and filling the layers it looks so "short"....my question is when you are making round cakes - do you bake and use TWO of each size for the layers or one? I looked at alot of your cakes and each layer looks so tall...mine definitely don't come close.
Are you saying you only use 1 of each size? Or are you using 2 of each size, and torting and layer those (now 4 pcs)?
yep same here! two cakes per layer, but i usually use 2" tall pans
I had used 2" pans in the past but thought perhaps I needed the 3" ones....really, probably wasted my money but lesson learned.
I wouldn't consider the 3" pans a waste of money. I started with 2" and have been switching over to 3"s. I still use 2 cakes per layer, but get a little extra height. (Plus I have a terrible tendency to overfill the 2" pans ending up with a "lip" on top where the cake rose over the edge. 
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Here's a pic of the cake - I so wish I could smooth buttercream nicely - but after a long patient try at it I said forget it and did another "pattern"....It was well received so I can't complain, I guess.
Pictures aren't uploading to the forums right now... can you load them into your gallery so we can see?
I torted two pans for each layer and it was really too big....perhaps 1 and a half would have been perfect but 1 was too "short" and two was too big....but there were leftovers so the bride and her father, especially, were happy!!! Better to have too much than too little.
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