All not by me. They’re fantastic guides!
Flat stacked Cake Video.
(I’ve never done that big- hers are 4 tiers of 12″-10″-8″-6″. I’ve only used Bubble Tea straws cos that’s easily available, cheap and easy to cut to height. I’ve never driven a final dowel through all the tiers cos my cardboards between tiers are too strong to be hammered through.
My version:
- Stick bubble tea straws into the bottom tier and use edible marker to mark the height of the cake.
- Pull the straws out and snip at the marking. Insert into the exact holes and smear some royal icing as “glue”.
- Stack the middle cake tier on (note: all your cake tiers are sitting on its own cardboard bases).
- Repeat steps #1-#3 for the middle cake tier.
- The topmost tier does not need to have bubble tea straws in it (only under its cardboard base). Unless you additionally put a heavy ornament as cake topper.
My version:
All bubble-tea straws but same method.
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July 9, 2009 at 11:04 pm
charsiew
wonderful, now i have a better idea.
but will be better if u conduct demo class…
July 11, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Jen
charsiew, I second! haha…
mel, thanks! topsy turvy a lot of work leh…
I doubly admire your patience!
A lot of cake wastage too… from all the carving…
July 12, 2009 at 1:27 pm
M
CSR,
youtube has alot of (free, hehe) cake tutorials which are so well-explained.
Jen,
yah alot of wastage, which I stored in a tub.
Hoped to make cookies- I googled a recipe that uses cake as ingredient… but my batches failed. Or can be used to make “cake balls” (u might have seen neighbourhood bakeries sometimes sells these little cake balls covered in chocolate rice), but I didn’t want so much cake.