Can you buy cakes from a place like whole foods and stack them yourself to make a wedding cake. Will that work
Posted: January 13th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cooking & Recipes | 9 Comments »
Well, I would use support (straws?) and I think cardboard between the layers. The problem with a true practice run is it costs twice as much, defeating my purpose. I think I’ll practice making my own cakes and stacking first. Don’t know if I want to risk wedding day stacking crisis.
Darien
I don’t know why you couldn’t do that and frost them yourselves.
We had a woman make ours..Just different sized round ones, used flowers for the topper with Ivy drapped around it..It really was pretty and inexpensive..Just use a few flowers that you’ll use in your wedding to tie it all together…
You could, but depending on the number of tiers, you may need some support dowels to make sure the cake doesn’t topple over.
Wedding cakes usually have supportive structures in them. Not necessarily every layer, but there is a certain way the cake decorator puts them together. You could try it, but I would do a practice run first.
You would probably have to go to a cake store and buy the proper structures to hold the cake together. Do a practice run, but also remember the day of the wedding you will be busy with other things and that last thing you need to be worried about is putting together your wedding cake — you know murphy’s law — if anything can go wrong it will — welll that would be just the day for murhpy’s law regarding your cake. Just break down and have one made.
don’t people just buy wedding cakes?
Of course you can. Or you can even make your own cakes and layer them any way you like. And it will save you a lot of money! Too many people are spending so much for a lavish wedding and are still paying for it after the divorce.
This would work fine. Just review the Wilton methods on their website for some tips. They’re very clear. Also, if you have a cake decorating supply store nearby, they’re usually more than happy to help you out.
You can, as long as their not already iced and decorated. Usually when their pre-decorated they come on a larger board not suitable for stacking and getting it off that board will be tricky. The wedding tiers should be supported by dowels, either wood or plastic. You then need to pipe a border around the edge of each cake so the board doesn’t show. The main board holding all the cakes should be very sturdy so it doesn’t bend and also slightly bigger than the cake itself so that there is room for a border.