Hello! I’m hosting a baby shower for my sister in law, and am considering making a 2-tier cake for it. I love to bake, and enjoy making everyone’s birthday cakes. I had planned to just order a 2-tier, white cake with smooth white icing from our local Sam’s or HEB, since I was planning to order some toppers from Amazon to decorate it. As I went to place my order, I thought wow, am I really going to pay for a cake I could make? While I’ve made cakes, they have only been for fun/family, not big events. And I’ve never made a 2-tiered cake. Of course, I got the toxic trait of “oh, I could do that!”, but things are not always as easy as it seems. 😝 so my question is, would you make a 2-tiered cake for a big event, for your first time? I’ve Posted pictures of previous cakes I’ve made, with the sprinkle cakes being my first cake to the most recent one being the new years cake, to show my progress, and that I think I could really do it. How does one even go about practicing cake tiering? What do you even do with all the practice cakes? The shower is in two weeks.
TLDR: Would you try making a 2-tiered cake for a big event, for your first time? Cake should feed 30-40 people
by lauradenise85
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Yes, as long as you’re prepared and you get all the things you need ahead of time. Biggest mistake beginners make with stacking cakes is a lack of adequate supports for the tiers. Depending on the size of your cake (both weight and diameter), you could use boba straws, wooden dowels, or acrylic dowels. The top tier should be on a cake board the same diameter as the cake so that you can hide it with decoration and easily lift the top tier off the bottom for slicing. Serving size would also depend on slice style. If you’re slicing the cakes like birthday cakes wedges, you’d need a 10” bottom tier and an 8” top tier. If you’re slicing them like wedding cake slices (1” x 2 ½” rectangles) an 8” bottom tier and a 6” top tier should be fine.
Only equipment you really need is cardboard rounds and boba straws. Plan to pipe some type of border along the seam and you’ll be good.