Anyone stacked a M&S plain wedding cake?

mrstmorrison

Hi
My friend is getting married next month and is planning to buy the tiers from the M&S plain cake range.
BUT
rather than use the pillars she would rather stack the cake, however a M&S worker told her its not possible as the tiers are impossible to remove from the boards they are on...

anyone know is its possible? I'm assuming if we can get them off the boards then we just need to pile them up? or would we need to put each tier onto a thin board the same size as the cake and use dowling in the tier below?...

any advice much appreciated .x

loupee

I once tried to do that at a wedding I was working at, do not do it is my advice, the bottom layer can not hold the weight of the top 2, and trying to get the cakes off the boards was even more disatourous.
Maybe if the bottom layer was fruit you might have better luck.
We ended up having a cake propped up with bowls a random flowers.
I would not try it unless you were going to splash out and have a trial run!

rene2b

well there's a video on m&s showing you how to stack there cakes
so unsure why one of the workers said that and my sister had a m&s cake and stacked them!
the cakes are on paper
take a look on the m&s website you can watch the video
x

loupee

Wish i'd seen seen that video before being given a cake to stack!
It was about this time last year right enough so it might have changed, but the cakes you can buy off the shelf in M&S def didn't have paper and were iced to the board if that makes sense!
The cake in the video starts at £179 so i don't think its the 'plain' range, it looks like if you order this cake it will be on paper so ready for stacking.

mrstmorrison

Thanks for the replies guys.... yes the plain range cakes are on boards not paper.

Plan B is to use short pillars and hide them with a ring of flowers to completely fill the gap between the tiers so I guess that will be the way to go...

Thanks for the advice

laura2481

mrstmorrison wrote: »

Thanks for the replies guys.... yes the plain range cakes are on boards not paper.

Plan B is to use short pillars and hide them with a ring of flowers to completely fill the gap between the tiers so I guess that will be the way to go...

Thanks for the advice

I think that's a great idea and will look very pretty and classy.

Maysie

Would cheesewire or something similar not help get them off the boards?

neneromanova

You should be able to take the cakes off of the board so long as there isn't any piping around the bottom of the cake. You'll need to put dowels into each layer to give it extra strength and also put a thin cakeboard under each other the stacking layers. Better to be safe than sorry on the wedding day as you don't want a disaster on the day.

Emu53

when i was looking at mine i found this which tells you how to ice and stack cakes, you have to put wooden or plastic dowels through the cake so that they hold the weight and not the actual cake.

http://cake-links.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-stack-wedding-cake.html

could you use a pallet knife or something to slide under the cake to loosen it?

xtinkersx

im do what pp said stack onto thin boards stick them using bc and then use dowels for support

emlou2009

A friend of mine took did this recently, but she got them from Tesco. She got cakes that were iced to the board and sliced them off the board with a hot pallet knife, and then put them on smaller thinner boards, put dowels in the bottom and middle cake and then piped little balls around the edges to hide the joins! It worked well. I wish I had a picture for you!