Giant Wedding Cakes 2010

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The other day I had secretly feared since you started decorating cakes is quickly approaching. You have been asked to provide a wedding cake - for a period of five layers, stacked wedding cake! And it's your sister's wedding! As you go over designs with your sister after day, I dreamed of the cake in the night. Cake in your dreams any longer than the cake until you've seen. As the bride and groom are to cut the cake pictures at, and you are looking for each layer slowly sink into the one beneath it, and as your sister and her husband, smile a new start in the first slide a piece of cake, and the force of gravity and the domino effect taking hold and breaks down the cake. All levels of the first four to sink in the bottom layer, and the majestic beauty of turning once to a huge pile of rubble covered with fondant cake! (And then you wake up, covered in sweat, only to realize that this dream has come true in reality).

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But wait! This nightmare did not become a reality. And there, and will not have to add the bills to the processor your budget for a cake through your project great. This kind of nightmares normal for the first time wedding cake makers. Far from healthy amount of butterflies, you have absolutely nothing to fear if you follow these tips. Stacked Wedding Cake Construction 101. Unlike wedding cakes with layers that are separated by plates and columns, and layers on a wedding cake piled seems to rest directly on top of one another. This is just an illusion since the cakes actually rest on the system, hidden columns and plates. To a pile of multi-tiered cake without plates and columns is to propose a very dangerous with the weight of each cake. Stacked cakes of more than 4 layers need some kind of support in the form of plates, screws and / or nails to keep the upper layers from sinking in the lower layers.

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So what if it will be stacked wedding cake-style Victorian (graduating round layers) or as a check with layers of fondant covered gift box style, here are the basics: To create a tower constructed completely rather than an experiment on the effects of gravity on cake and ice, you can use either to buy a set of cake plates and screws, or you can build your own system using panels of cardboard cake and nails. To build your system, and pick up some cake round 1/4-3/8-inch nails (or other food safe wooden nails) and hammer (a) (Yes, even if you failed in high school Woodshop) and follow these tips bellow. Nails to be put into the plan by a focused panel size of the cake next cake on top of the cake down, and then marking the spot by pressing gently on the plate. Within the boundaries of these signs, include the four screws evenly spaced. Insert screw the first thing that came down directly to the bottom of the cake and Mark screw up with the top of the cake. The withdrawal of the screw, and using wire cutters, cut in the mark.

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Three pieces the same height. Then push the bolts directly to the bottom of the cake in the places marked so that the shape of a square inside the circle. (Make sure that the pins are exactly even with the top of the cake support for the best). Place the next smaller class in the round cake of the same size, and then place it on top of the lower class. The nails will prevent the top layer of drowning at the bottom of the class. Measure the next set of nails from the bottom of the cake bottom to the top of the cake top. Screw cut at an angle to taper the end and cut so that it is just slightly shorter than height of the bottom two cakes. Insert tapered end of the nails first thing that came down directly from the cake. When you stop for a screw in the cake first, and give it to benefit a company with a sledgehammer to break through the Council to the bottom of the cake. To prevent the hammer from landing in the ice, and place another small part of the end of the screw with the end of the screw was measured to reach a position. Finally, the ice on the little blemish to hide the tip of the screw, and you're building your tower! You can rest easy knowing that the wedding cake is stable enough to withstand the forces of gravity. No more nightmares!