Will This Work? Wedding Cake Risers
Decorating By ElizabethsCakeCreations Updated 13 Sep 2016 , 12:46pm by ElizabethsCakeCreations
Hello my lovelies! So I don't know if you remember but I have an Old Hollywood wedding cake to do for a friend. I've created a sketch of it in publisher and attached the image below.
The cake is 6, 9, and 12". As you can see there will be a film strip on the bottom tier. I did the measurements and decided it would look best if the tier was 6” tall. If I do it 4” the film strip is too small.
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So here’s the plan/question. I am going to put a 2” riser under the 12” tier. It will go as follows, cake, thin board, 12" X 2” styrofoam dummy, thin board. I was going to fill the cake put it on the boards and styrofoam, gluing together with buttercream. I will crumbcoat the entire thing and cover with fondant.
What do you guys think? I don’t want to make a 6” tall cake, that’s a lot of money not budgeted for and Dessert plates are meant for 4” cake.
I was also planning on making the 9” tier 5” tall. So the final dimensions will be 6” X 4”, 9 X 5”, 12 X 6”. Will this work or should I make them all 6” tall? Most importantly can I use risers to elevate a 4” cake ?
Sweet I knew I couldn't be the first one to think of it. Now should we go with 6" tall tiers or 4 5 and 6"?
i like 4 5 and 6 inches tall because as the cakes change circumference the same height makes them one look out of proportion to me -- it shortens the larger tiers to have them all the same size -- i like the riser great idea --
i love your design-- red polka dots brilliant -- the very cool gold lace jacquard stencil-y stuff in the middle -- the flim strip! -- red roses -- very glam very hollywood --
can't wait -- plus 12x9x6 is the sweetest size wedding cake silhouette
This (https://instagram.com/p/BJ78XqAjPaL/) is a 6-9-12 with 1" risers on each tier. Also in my feed is a big four tier with 2" risers - each tier was about 7" tall.
Here is the stencil I will be using on the middle tier, I'm going to be painting gold using rolkem gold super :)
So I can't rent the pans in the sizes I need so here's the new design.
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sorry the picture is so big it won't let me make it smaller
Does anyone know if a 10 ml pot of gold will be enough to paint the stencil work, swags and give the stencil tier a light dust?
Bump does anyone know the answer to the question above?
my tiniest containers are 2g and 3g and those would probably be enough -- sorry -- if you can translate to ml from g you can have an answer -- but i would probably buy an extra one or two jars because that's how i operate -- and it all depends on how much you use -- can't hurt to have too much -- i'm no help at all huh
10 ml of flour is just over 4 grams so hopefully it will be enough :-)
so that's like a couple of my size jars at least -- you'll be fine -- don't drop anything or sneeze 
lol K8
I found old wilton dust, it's years old does it go bad? I would only use it if I run out
the wilton edible dust I have would not make paint like the non-toxic dusts available back at that time -- so I would test that right away -- I haven't tried the edible kinds available now by crystal colors and others because I'm not doing cakes but i hear they work great so....but no I don't guess it goes bad just didn't work for me
It would be the gold dusting I would use it for. Hopefully they're will be no need :-)
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