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Anyone know about cakes - is this a terrible idea??

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DIYWeddingCake · 13/09/2022 17:50

Getting married in a few weeks and wondering if this is a terrible idea...

Lola's cupcakes do 2 tier wedding cakes which aren't quite big enough. Considering buying this 2 tier cake www.lolascupcakes.co.uk/Ordering/2504/Two-Tier-Naked-Chocolate-and-Vanilla-Wedding-Cake.htm to which I'd then add v similar cake www.lolascupcakes.co.uk/Ordering/1884/Chocolate-and-Vanilla-Naked-Cake.htm as an additional tier either at the bottom or on the top (depending on size).

Is this a stupid idea? Could the cake collapse or something? Do I need dowls?

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00100001 · 13/09/2022 17:54

Why not just order two cakes.. and be done with it?

Have one for the cutting, and cut it all up for serving.

DuckWithOneWing · 13/09/2022 17:59

You would need dowels, because the top tier won't be designed to hold more weight. But because it's starting off as a 2 tier cake they might not have put dowels in the base layer (cakes can support a bit of weight without dowels) so you might actually need to take the whole lot apart and add dowels to the bottom. If you can get a really big single cake and have that as the bottom tier that would be best.

hellcatspangle · 13/09/2022 18:01

I can't believe they charge £125 for that. Watch some YouTube videos and make your own 😬

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gobbynorthernbird · 13/09/2022 18:03

Could you email and ask them if you can have the two put together by the cake makers?

Alucadekena · 13/09/2022 18:08

Just get two cakes, one to cut but then have both for cutting. Some cake companies do cutting bars so a rectangle cake just for cutting and serving.

If you are stacking cakes you need dowels inserted to take the weight, if you stack cakes they are too heavy and the filling squishes out.

NImumconfused · 13/09/2022 18:08

Those are going to be very thin slices! If you buy the separate cakes, they suggest the 7" serves 18 and the 9" serves 32, ie 50 altogether, but the exact same cakes bought as a two tier wedding cake serves 70??

Could you buy the appropriate number of individual cakes and use a contemporary styled tiered cake stand to present them perhaps?

parietal · 13/09/2022 18:09

so you buy an 11inch cake alone + a 9 inch and 7 inch already in tiers?

if you also buy dowels and have a 10 inch slim plate / board, then you put the dowels through the 11inch cake, then add the plate. then put the 9+7 inch cakes on top it should work.

it would work better with the fruit because that will disguise any joins between the layers.

MrsR87 · 13/09/2022 18:20

I wouldn’t join two cakes together. Either have a cake for pictures and cutting and an extra one for adding to the dishing out of the cake.

Or have one wedding cake with a tower of cupcakes or cupcakes around the bottom.

LionessesRules · 13/09/2022 18:21

Use the wedding cake as the display cake.
Have an extra cake sat in the kitchen for cutting up and serving. There will be a reason they don't offer to stack them 3 high probably weight related.

Poppyblush · 13/09/2022 18:23

If the wedding cake is 9” and 7” and serves 70, how come a chocolate cake of same measurements only serves 50?

ItsnotaHenryMoore · 13/09/2022 18:31

hellcatspangle · 13/09/2022 18:01

I can't believe they charge £125 for that. Watch some YouTube videos and make your own 😬

I made a 2 tier sponge cake in that style that for a friends wedding recently (it was a bit larger) and it cost me around £75 in ingredients, boards, dowels etc. Not including electricity. And that's with no labour costs, and no profit.

I think people really underestimate the time and costs of these cakes. They're not fussy but not as easy as they look.

ISpyNoPlumPie · 13/09/2022 18:53

I make a lot of tiered and stacked cakes. Not professionally, but for fun... I think the two tier cake would probably be quite solid and you could possibly put a smaller tier on top. It may squash down. If I were making a tiered cake from scratch, I would use cake boards and dowels on each tier. You could try it but it would involve some faffing (you may scratch the icing and need to do a few repairs). You'd also probably want a cake lifter to pick up each tier to insert the dowels. Considering all that and the fact it's your wedding, I'd buy the two tier cake, decorate it nicely with flowers or whatever and keep the extra tier in the kitchen to serve. No one needs extra jobs on their wedding day!

cherrypiepie · 13/09/2022 18:54

We had a two tier cake to cut and traybake to slice and serve.

My mums friend made the "traybake" (fruit and brandy) to slice and serve.

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DIYWeddingCake · 14/09/2022 10:08

Thanks so much everyone for your suggestions, really helpful.

To avoid disaster I think we'll got for the third cake in the kitchen option (can't believe I didn't think of that - but that's why MN is so great!) Thanks all x

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