First Time 3 Tier Wedding Cake - Help!!
Hi,
I have a wedding cake (as attached) to fo for August, three tiers rather than four. And an Indian bride and groom topper rather than flowers. Venue is a 2.5 hour drive away
Can you lovely people give me any helpful tips
This is what I have in mind at the moment:
Bake Cakes, (Customer has asked for 8,10,12”)
Fill and cover with chocolate ganache
Cover with fondant – smooth finish
Add a border to bottom of each cake
Stack with dowels (Does each cake need a board underneath? & Do I need to pre drill a hole in middle for the longest centre dowel?)
I have no idea how to do the ‘saree’ – Do I roll out fondant, cut and decorate it and then store it in plastic bags?/wrap and then attach it to the cake once I get to the venue?
How do I attach it? What if it rips?
Thanks!!
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Hi ecakes…..the 12" cake will be on the large drum board at the bottom, then you will need a 10 and 8" cake card to place the other 2 cakes on.
You will need to dowel the 2 lower tiers and ‘glue’ with royal icing and assemble at home. The sari will need to be made after this at home because of the artwork involved.
I dont usually centre dowel with a 3 tier, the royal icing will be strong enough when dried the day after.
For the sari, id roll my fondant very thin, it maybe best to use gumpaste for more strength. Then ruffle it to look like fabric and attatch to the cake at home with royal icing. Once this dries it is very strong. If you let the whole thing dry 24 hrs before transport, it will be fine. Drive carefully!
Hope this helps xx
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Thank you so so much :)
Is it best to mix gumpaste with the fondant then? Will the gumpaste crack? Worried the saree will crack
I guess if I tried attaching the saree once I got to the venue it may slip off and not stay attached.
Just really worried about transporting a three tier cake on the motorway for 2.5 hours :o
Its probably best to have a 50/50 mix of gumpaste to fondant for your sari, so it will still have flexibilty but then dry hard and it should not crack.
It will be fine transporting it, just give yourself enough time to have a steady drive to the venue.
If you were to make the Sari and then try to attatch it at the venue, it will probably break because it would have hardened and like you said may not stay attatched.
Make sure everthing is made, dried in advanced after being glued with royal icing and you’ll be fine.
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I would hav boards under each tier too. Why not try mixing the fondant with a lil bit of Tylose or cms so tht it s not as hard as Gumpaste.
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a tip for transporting cakes – I always make sure that the cake is snug in the cake box by putting a rubber none slip mat under the cake board, I then also use a rubber non slip mat under the cake box and I always transport my cake in the boot of the car with nothing else in the boot but the cake, and may be further boxes next to the cake box if worried – you can pick the mats up from amazon & ebay
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003DDAYCU/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=27A50VGH5BZJ&coliid=I3U0DTNBFIM9Z
hope this helps
