Assembling Multi Tiered Cakes Demonstration
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The Ultimate guide to assembling tiered cakes
Everyone wants taller cakes whether for a christening, birthday or a wedding. This demonstration will give you the confidence to create your own tiered cakes. Your worry of collapsing tiers will vanish as step by step each stage of the process will be carefully explained – how many dowels to use, which dowels to choose, how to cut them, how to put them in your cakes, where they go and how to calculate the spacing. Throughout the demonstration Annabelle will share her wealth of experience and explain the Confection Perfection top tips to ensure you have the knowledge whether you want to stack a seven tier cake, use pillars, separators or floating tiers. You will be able to ask as many questions as you need whilst enjoying a cup of tea and a slice of cake.
- Selecting suitable cake flavours for tiered cakes – our top tips and golden rules
- What sized cakes and what difference between the tiers?
- Choosing stands – the advantages, disadvantages, practicalities and how to use them to best effect
- How to choose dowels, how to space them and how to cut them
- How to stack cakes using dowels for support – the advantages, disadvantages, practicalities
- How to use pillars – the advantages, disadvantages, practicalities
- How to use separators – the advantages, disadvantages, practicalities
- How to create floating tiers (our two top methods) – the advantages, disadvantages, practicalities
- How to transport tiered cakes
Annabelle
Annabelle
Director
Annabelle established Confection Perfection (now re-branded as Annabelle Jane Cake School) in 1996 from her kitchen table; bought her first retail premises in 2000 and is now settled in a delightful setting in Bearsted, just outside Maidstone. Annabelle has extensive cake decorating experience and is highly creative and artistic. Annabelle is an accredited tutor for the PME Diplomas in Sugar craft and also designs and delivers a wide range of other highly successful cake baking and decorating classes. Annabelle has a huge vision for our Cake School and ensures that the strong reputation we have earned continues to grow lead by her consistently high standards.
The course price includes comprehensive course notes and 10% discount on items purchased in the cake decorating supplies shop on the day of your course.
- What's the skill level?
Any level, beginners and upwards
- Are there any age restrictions?
Age 14+ (under 16 must be accompanied by an adult partaking in the course)
- What do I need to bring?
This is a demonstration only – you do not need to bring anything although you may like a notebook and pen.