How to Assemble a Wedding Cake | Wedding Cakes how to make
How to Assemble a Wedding Cake | Wedding Cakes
now we're going to assemble a weddingcake and this is one of the most difficult parts I love building ever putting together awedding cake and it's also in the most important if you do everything at percentright but you don't get this part right and nothing else matters nothing isworse than a be worried about a cake is going to fall at a wedding after you've delivered so I'm gonna showyou the best way to put it together we have our fun daunted board here andthe tools I need this is a dowell I bought at a localhardware store got a little sanding block and this isactually a miter box for doll houses and a little miniature saw music with also exacto products themiter box will but up on the edge survey tablehere so that we can saw are dowel rods to be the exact rightside some people use straws I don't find that they're nearly strongenough especially for bigger kiss expects the first image do is attach mybottom tier to find a board and any use a hot glue gun for thatskimpy little strange but remember it's just going to be touching foam core on the bottom we want to makesure that that basis super secure some using a nice bigdollop love hi clue very careful with hot glueit's just like working with hot sugar it's not something you can just wipe offso I will talk this you and just drop it right down since mycake is cold I can man handle it a little bit push it around so it fitsin nicely go to come back and cover up thosescenes in a little bit the first we want to stack arcades step is to determine the depth about our caketier Anthony's Ardell for that sales beenwashed in this is a feels a little dramatic permit do it byplunging the dow right into the cake and I we'll figureout the with where stick that doubt based on a tearthat's going on top of it so I know that because the stairs onlythis pic if I do it outside in that area not only will it not support the tierabove it gonna stick out the ugly so I'm gonna eyeball measure so it that's how farapart the tear is with a century on the cake it's going inand I'm gonna go in about an inch to make sure that it's perfectlysupported and not at all visible I so plunger all the way down Press pretty hard with a pencil and wasgonna mark at all that is try not to put my I L I can move this way for a moment well Icut my doubts other to its going on top of it is not super big sigh don't need a tonof dowels IQ get away with 5 for this one sis goesinto the center and lining up my little pencil knots with the martz and I'm using pressure similar to nailfiling I'm not pressing too hard to press toohard it's really really difficult just like fresh earth there is our firstDow gonna market with a little X sitarmaster dow lined up with their next guy my a little notch and I will do that four more times Ste okay so I have five towels all the same size we have a very nice so if my cake tier is a little bitoff-kilter of snot terribly straight on top having allthese exact same size well sure that whatever tear I put aboveit will be perfectly straight so that if I'm doing a seventy your cakeby having them all be insured to be perfectly straight and avoid having a to be to be cake herewe have a sanding block and that is going to have to take theedge off of for a little mini dolls of and I'm just spending is around if so I got a nice this perfect edge of alright a towards me here's our original Dell should fit perfect that's exactly whatwe want perfectly flush with the top of the cake now to figure out where for the otherdowels mistake this talent measure though depth I which is that and beforeit plunged them all into the cake Italy little marks for where I think they should go andthat way before but the men if it looks like I've gotta kinda crazy shape or large area that's not covered I can change in right so we've got a nicelittle five everything is pretty quick distant discovered in funzies guys in a good indicator for how even the top ofyour cake was if these guys stick out so nice andflush gonna take a little bit a thebuttercream and when it chills it's all gonna sticktogether you can use royal icing as well will be transporting it's a SanFrancisco where it's gonna be really hilly and make sure it's stuck year ago so I'm just entering this it'sgood to walk away three or four feet look at your cakemake sure it's totally centered but here we have to just chill this andthen we will come back and decorate it and that is how you assemble a weddingcake