How To Make A Wedding Cake

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How to make a wedding cake. Most wedding photographers will take lots of shots of the cake too and you can ask the bride or groom for those later. Most three tier cake recipes have a step by step schedule for when you will need to bake and assemble each part. Say i do to a homemade wedding cake. Use a sturdy cake board such as 12 inch thick plywood.

You can make a wedding cake for a customer if you bake for a living or you might make a cake for loved ones wedding to help them save money. For a three tier cake you need to make three cakes of 12 9 and 6 as well as a massive amount of icing. I make fun cake videos and i post my creations every wednesday at 200pm cst. Add to the laid back down home vibe of the day by serving up a diy wedding cake thats as simple as it is sweet.

You should use a recipe specifically designed to be a wedding cake as it will ensure that it is sturdy enough and that it makes the right amount of batter and icing. Foundation for bottom cake tier fill and frost the two largest cake layers in the center of a covered cake board that is about 4 inches larger than the cake being sure to smooth frosting on top and sides. This makes for a softer cake think fluffy and moistreally great cake so it worked well in this tiered cake alongside the sturdier vanilla cake layers. If you love to bake then you might even want to make your own.

Like all sound construction a tiered cake begins with a good foundation. Huge dropdead gorgeous wedding cakes. I made another half quantity of the lemon cake to form a 3rd layer split. Learn how to make a wedding cake in this three part wedding cake recipe series.

I have been a cake artist for a long time now and i make all sorts of cakes. In this part we review how to bake and wedding cake and how to frost the wedding cake with homemade icing. The freezing helps but if you are going that route i would test a few other chocolate cake recipes and find what. Make 1 12 quantities of the lemon cake layer if you want it to be the same height as the chocolate bottom tier i made the initial cake as per the recipe but despite following other tips beat sugar and butter really well until very very pale the cake only rose to about 23rd of the height of the chocolate layer.

And make sure to get one of yourself with the cake. Sadly your cake isnt going to be preserved in a wedding cake museum for all time or maybe not so sadly since that would be such a big waste of butter so be sure to take lots and lots of photos. View gallery 15 photos courtesy of actually ashley. But if i had been making the entire wedding cake chocolate i think this recipe might be a little too soft to hold up well.