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I’m doing a wedding cake and I decided to do a stacked one with a 12″, 3″ high at bottom on a 15″ board, then a 10″, 3″ high, then a 7″,4″ high and then a 5″, 4″ high on the top.

I’m now really worried that this is something you shouldn’t do on stacked cakes and the sizes should all go up equally as inch up 2 or 3 inches on each tier. When I tried it with dummies it seemed to look ok but I’m worried it shouldn’t be done or might look odd to people.

Can something please tell me if this is ok to do or even a common thing to not make the tiers goes up in size by the same amount on every tier?

Thanks

Hi Scoffacake

Normally I would do 12, 10, 8 and 6 or go up in uneven numbers and sometimes stack double barrell cakes on top of the base and have the smallest cake as the topper.
Did you see stacking cakes tutorial? It’s here:
http://www.cakeflix.com/free-cake-decorating-courses/stacking-cakes-overview
There are many styles of stacking, however with traditional stacking the sizes do graduate to keep a balanced shape. Contemporary cakes do break the traditional rules and still look great, so if your dummy cakes didn’t look odd it should be fine. Hopefully other members will give their opinions too. Meanwhile have a look online at some of the more comtemporary wedding cakes.