Stacking a Three Tier Wedding Cake

By

Deeli

You will want some sort of plate, cardboard with doily, etc under the bottom layer unless you want it sitting directly on the table ;-)

Here are some helpful links:

http://www.reception-wedding.com/wedding_cake_stands.htm
http://www.bakingshop.com/weddingcakes/cakestand.htm
http://www.pastrywiz.com/wedding/tierplate.htm

And this one is for if you do not want the pillar appearance:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Stacked-W ... tion---Tiers-for-Fears&id=646449

By

Lori17201

As others have said, make sure all cakes are on cake circles and the plastic plates that hook into the columns. You do not need straws, dowels or styrofoam for this the cake pictured. If you are stacking the cakes on top of one another you do. I don't use drinking straws. I buy "bubble drink" straws at my oriental market. They are wider then typical drinking straws.

To stack cakes, put the first cake on the cake board and secure it to whatever base you will use. Take a cake circle and mark where the other cake is going to be placed on the bottom cake then take it off. Put 3-6 dowel or straw pieces in the cake that will hold the next cake. Take the next cake that is on it's own board and set it carefully on top and repeat until you have all your layers.

If you are going to have more then 3 levels of cake, I find it easier to sharpen a dowel that will go through the center of all of the cakes and will stay in. Before assembling the cakes I pre-hole each one so I am not pushing and possibly squashing the cakes. This way I know where the dowel will go without a problem. When all cakes are stacked then border them. Wilton and cakecentral (my personal favorite) are excellent resources. Good luck

By

MCW

If you have all the necessary supplies for a tied wedding cake as shown in the photo, you would not need styrofoam on the bottom layer of a 3 tiered wedding cake.

Please see photo that I found through a search engine.

Could you give me instructions on how to stack a three tier wedding cake? I am making it for my daughter.