Tier Cakes

When making a tier cake, you will want to use pans that are straight sided.  This will produce a cake tier with nice, straight sides.  The various tiers will line up properly and look straight (do not use pans that have slanted sides).  Cake pan sets that stack inside of each other are your best choice.

Tier cake pans come in Rounds, Squares, Petals, Ovals, Hearts, and Hexagon sets.  Most sets have 3 or 4 sizes.  They are made so the sizes are complimentary to making tier cakes for most any occasion.

Tier cakes can be set up on cake stands or tiers can be stacked on each other.  Stacked cakes must be properly doweled, to keep the upper tiers from crushing the lower cake tiers.

Sturdy baseboards, ruffle boards, cake ruffles, separator plates and pillars are available for setting-up and supporting tier cakes.  Tier cakes can use either a 1-plate system with “push- through” pillars or a 2-plate system with “set-on” pillars and doweling. 

To help in planning your tier cakes, in addition to the many books we offer to illustrate different tiered cake styles and examples, we have styrofoam dummy cakes that can be stacked to give you a visual representation of the look you want to attain with your final cake design.   

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