Two Tier Birthday Cake Advice

papoosue

I want to make a two tier birthday cake for my Nana's 89th birthday on Sunday - I've made a few nice cakes in the past but never done more than one tier. I've bought some cake dowels to attach the two pieces together too. What I'm concerned about is the top cake sinking into the bottom - is that likely? I thought if I made the bottom from Madiera cake and the top smaller one from victoria sponge.

Any advice would be really appreciated :-)

Susan

thriftlady_2

I made a 2 tier chocolate sponge-type cake for my Mum's 60th. I simply put the small cake on top of the larger one and covered the lot with chocolate ganache. It was absolutely fine, no sinking at all;)

papoosue

Thanks thriftlady - I think I'm going to go for it and see what happens! I bet your mum was thrilled with her cake, it sounds delicious :-)

Susan x

thriftlady wrote: »

I made a 2 tier chocolate sponge-type cake for my Mum's 60th. I simply put the small cake on top of the larger one and covered the lot with chocolate ganache. It was absolutely fine, no sinking at all;)

Tigerlilley1980

I think it will be fine so long as you use the dowels. I was looking into this for my wedding cake and the dowels should be ok. Why not stck the top tier on a cake board to make extra sure? Tiger x

jordylass

I've made a few off these there is a good demo on you tube if you search for tampa wedding cakes.

I used normal straws in the bottom cake just trimmed them to the right depth and the top cake was on a thin board.