How To Assemble A 2 Tier Cake
Apply your crumb coat and then spread the cake tier with frosting and smooth. What kind of cake is best.
The standard size is usually a 6 cake stacked on top of a 8 cake and it feeds about 40-50 people depending on how big you cut the slices.
How to assemble a 2 tier cake. I have a post here on how to level cakes and another post here on how. Cover cake with icing or fondant as desired. Use that dowel as a guide and cut the other dowels at the same height for that tier.
Bake dense cakes that can hold the weight of the frosting or fondant and filling if using. Grab a thick cake board for the bottom tier with a diameter of at least two inches bigger than the bottom tier cake. The requester is making a 10 and 12 tiered cake so I will use these in my instructions.
Once you have done that you can start stacking up the cakes on one another. Bake your cake layers. The Making of a Two Tier Buttercream Cake 1 Bake your sponges.
Quick step-by-step guidechecklist for assembling a tiered cake. Trim the top of the cake to create a flat surface. Poke the cut dowel rods into the base cake with a gap of 2 to 3 inches apart but within the diameter of the next tier cake.
Each tier will be a layer cake so you will need two layers for each tier. Use the cake board for the next layer to gently imprint the outline centered on the icing or fondant of the bottom layer. Frost each cake layer with a thin first layer of Grand.
Level fill and stack bottom cake layer on covered cake board. If your cake design includes a bottom border or your cake is more than 2 tiers an even larger diameter cake base makes moving the finished cake easier. This is a picture of one of my cakes and it has most of the features associated with her cake 2 different colored tiers and polka-dots.
Repeat the process for all cake layers except for the topmost one. With a long serrated knife trim the skin off of the top and bottom of the cake layers. Finishing the bottom tier makes assembling the rest of the cake seem easy.
A two tier cake means you need two cakes composed of layers in two different sizes. With a long serrated knife cut. 3 For the.
Make sure cake is perfectly level. Then glue the bottom tier cake to the cake board using frosting or icing. The bottom tier will need to be about 2 inches larger than the top tier so you could bake two 8-inch layers and two 6-inch layers.
Push each dowel firmly into the cake. Two 10 inches in diameter and two 4 inches in diameter. For each tier of this cake you will have to bake four cakes.
Step by Step Instructions on How to Stack a Two Tier Cake without Dowels. How to Assemble a Layer Cake. Remove the freshly baked cake from the oven while still in the pan Using a smooth piece of cloth preferably a hand towel drape it around the cake and press down.
Cut out a paper circle the same size as the top tier. 2 To make the quilt pattern on the top tier. Split each layer of orange sponge cake on cardboard round in half horizontally.
To start dowelling the cake cut the dowels to tier height insert a dowel into the tier going down to the cake card mark the height of the dowel with a food safe pen taking the dowel out and cut it to size. A light and airy cake like an angel food cake is not your best choice for a stacked cake because it is likely to collapse or droop under the pressure. In this video I will show you how you can stack a 2 tier cake at homeI used a 6 and 8 cake - already covered with fondantAlso I stacked them right after.
Make sure to use a bit of frosting underneath your base tier to hold the cake to the cake board. Per side for 6-in. I will give you the steps I would take from start to finish to make this cake.
Prepare the cake and supplies. Insert dowels into the bottom layer. That means you need a cake that can hold the weight of a cake on top of it.
Cover taped cake boards in Fanci-Foil wrap. Remove the cake board and use this guideline when inserting the dowels. Stacking a two tier cake starts with baking a cake that has the stability to be stacked.
Make sure the cake is completely level using a level from the hardware store set on the top. Level fill and frost them. Mark the center of your layer and use your next cake circle to outline where the next tier will go.
Spread both cut sides of each cake layer with Grand Marnier-marmalade filling 14 c. Cut to the same length as the first one.
