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COVERING THE TWO 6″ CAKES
I’ve just watched the wedding cake tutorial – brilliant. The one thing I’ve never made is a stacked/tiered wedding cake and this gave me confidence to have a go; thanks Paul.
However,I don’t quite understand how the 6″ cakes are covered. I can see they’ve been covered to look like one cake and that there’s a board and dowels between them, but is each 6″ cake also covered individually in marzipan and sugarpaste? Please explain to a beginner in wedding cakes what you’ve done! Thank you.
Deane-Mae P.S. Is there a tutorial on how to cover and stack a tiered cake?
Hi Deane-Mae
You solved the conundrum! I’m sorry if my description wasn’t clear enough, but you have it now. x
Hi Deane-Mae
To see how to stack square cakes have a look at the white shard wedding cake. You’re not limited in choice as almost all the tutorials show how to ganache, ice, dowel and stack tiered cakes. The six inch cakes sit on their own cards same size as the cakes. Mark out a four inch square in the bottom cake as guide where the dowels will be placed ( white chocolate shard cake will show how to). Once the dowels are in use some ganache as glue to stick the second cake on top. The two cakes can now be ganached together to create one tall cake. Leave the ganache to set before icing. I may not have described the process too well so I would advise that you have a look at the wedding cakes section and also the free/beginners section which introduces novice decorators to step by step instructions in preparing and enrobing all cakes. Hope this helps.
Hi everyone
As the lady above I also didn’t fully understand how to stack the two 6″ cakes or where the dowels should be. Through both cakes and the card thin??? I looked on the white chocolate shard tutorial but it doesn’t even show the separate cakes or how to stack them. Please can anyone help?
Thanks
Lindsay
Hi there, I have just looked in the beginners’ section and also watched the white shard wedding cake tutorial; I am a little clearer but ,like Lindsay, still somewhat confused! Do you leave just the lower of the 6″ cakes on its own card? Then ganache the two together and finally cover both in sugarpaste to look like one tall cake before placing the “tower” (which is still on a small same-sized board??) onto the largest cake?
Also I see in the “shard” tutorial that the board is removed before stacking. Also am I right in thinking that some people leave the cakes being stacked on a thin board so that each tier can be removed separately? Hope you can unpick all the queries in here and help! Thank you so much. Deane-Mae
Hi Deane-mae
Omg, its just dawned on me how to stacked the 6″ cakes. I’ve been over thinking it really, its just how you would stack two different size cakes with the thin card on the bottom then the cake with dowels and then another thin card (middle) then second cake. Ta dah!
Is this right?
Lindsay
Hi Lindsay that’s what I think; it’s just that in the tutorial it looked like the second 6″ cake wasn’t on a board, but when I thought about it, you’d have to keep the second cake on a board otherwise you’d end up cutting a piece of cake that’s 12″ tall!! So I guess it’s board under both 6″ cakes,dowels between the two and ganache and ice the two to look like one…. sorted! …. I hope… unless Paul comes back with a different answer to my previous query. Good luck to us both! Deane-Mae
