Stacking, Assembling and Transporting Wedding Cakes:
Questions, Answers and Tips

When Can I Put The Dowel Rods Into The Cake? 
I'm creating my own cake with three tiers of iced fruit cake and I was just wondering when would be the best time to insert the dowel rods into the two ...

The finer points of stacking a wedding cake 
I have made 6, 8 and 10" fruit cakes for a wedding cake. The bride was unsure of what style she wanted when I made the cakes but has now decided she ...

Does a stacked cake require doweling? 
I am making a 3 tier wedding cake, fruit on the base and 2 tiers of sponge. I know I have to put doweling in the tiers but some people put a dowel through ...

How Do I Assemble A Three Tier Cake? 
I’m making my own wedding cake and I have a few questions. The cakes will be fruit cakes and I’m icing them with marzipan and sugar paste. First of ...

Sponge Wedding Cakes 
My friend and I want to make a wedding cake for a mutual friend. She and her husband to be do not like fruit cake, so they want sponge cakes. They would ...

Can I Stack A Fruit Cake On A Sponge Cake 
We are having a three tier cake, the bottom tier will be sponge and the other two will be fruit. I don't know whether the chrome stand would take having ...

Using A Sponge Middle Layer On A 3 Tier Cake  Not rated yet
I am making a wedding cake for a friend and she would like the 12" bottom and 6" top layer to be a fruit cake and the 9" middle layer to be a sponge. The ...

How to stack and transport a chocolate fudge wedding cake?  Not rated yet
Hi there,

A family member has agreed to make my wedding cake, which I am very happy with because he is amazing at baking. He had mentioned that he ...

How can I level a 12 inch round cake?  Not rated yet
I want to level a 12 inch round cake and I was wondering if I could use a cake leveller to do it? Do you think a cake leveller is strong enough to do ...

How to store and transport a wedding cake?  Not rated yet
I am baking a 3 tier wedding cake for someone who lives in a different city to me. I would like to know what is the best way of storing fruit cakes which ...

What size wedding cake stand?  Not rated yet
If the cake is placed on a 14" round platter, should the cake stand be 14" or larger?


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To make your cake look fantastic the cake ...

Assembling Tall Tiers On A Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
I'm retired and I make the odd cake for other people. I do it more as a hobby than a business. Stacked tiered cakes lend themselves to decoration on ...

Stacking A Bought Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
I have bought the traditional wedding cake 3 sponge tiers from M&S, however I do not want to use pillars between each layer as shown in the picture below ...

Do I Need A Wooden Board For The Bottom Wedding Cake?  Not rated yet
Do I need a wood board for the bottom cake? I usually use a drum 3" larger than the bottom cake. The bottom cake is fruit with two sponges on top - 10"...

What Size Separator Plates For A Wedding Cake?  Not rated yet
I'm making a three tiered wedding cake as 6 inch, 10 inch and 12 inch. I was wondering what size separator plates I would need for these?


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Clear Plastic Supports Between Wedding Cake Tiers?  Not rated yet
I am making my daughter's wedding cake and the design she has chosen shows the tiers sitting on what appears to be clear plastic boxes. Can you tell me ...

How To Stop The Icing Being Pulled Off?  Not rated yet
I am making the cake myself and I need to know how to assemble it. The 3 cakes are standing directly on each other. What if anything do you place between ...

How To Transport A Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
We need to transport a three tier wedding cake to the wedding venue and we want to be sure of it's safe arrival. All the tiers are rich fruit cake. The ...

How Do You Stack A Royal Iced Rich Fruit Wedding Cake?  Not rated yet
I have been asked to make a wedding cake that is stacked on top of each other. I've only ever made one wedding cake before and with that one I used a ...

What Is the Best Way To Stack A Themed Wedding Cake?  Not rated yet
I am on very strict budget for my wedding cake. I've found the M&S cakes at £115 too expensive and the Tesco and Asda cakes too small, so I'm going ...

Wedding Cake Assembly  Not rated yet
I have just made a three tier wedding cake and the top tier is made up of a 9" fruit cake with a 6" heart shaped cake on top. The bottom two tiers went ...

Wedding Cake Sizes  Not rated yet
I'm making my own wedding cakes and I would like to know what diameter size would you normally do a 3 tier wedding cake made with fruit filling and ...

Transporting a Wedding Cake  Not rated yet
I am making my daughter's wedding cake and as she is getting married in Italy I would like to know how to transport the wedding cake there by plane ...

Heart Shaped Wedding Cake Tiers  Not rated yet
How do I put three cake tiers on top of each other? Each tier will be on its own small board. The shape is heart and the sponge will be covered in white ...