![]() The great thing about tiered cakes is that you can make them with any flavor combinations you want. However, before you start baking, you want to know what two-tiered cake sizes you should use for your event. Top tip as well, when you are very close to finishing the ganache – I heat the scraper under the hot tap, dry it off so it’s not wet, and do one final scrape around the cake.When it comes to celebrations, 2 tier cake sizes can make an elegant dessert to serve. This allows the buttercream to set, the ganache to set, and makes the cake much easier to work with! All things when baking cakes are each to their own – but this is just how I did this particular cake! Let me know if you have any questions in the comments! I decorate with ganache drips, and chill again for 30 minutes etc! I cover in ganache and chill again for 30 minutes. I fill and crumb coat my cakes, and chill for 30 minutes. I would say a big part about making this sort of cake is letting the layers chill and set well enough each time. There are many types of dowels out there for cake, but I use these wilton ones and found them so easy! They come with little caps to ‘spread the weight’ I guess, and the top sponge sits onto it (on a cake board) and then it doesn’t sink! Obviously, if you have ones you prefer then go with them! Top tips I cannot stress this enough! If you don’t you risk the cake sliding into the other sponge and generally going completely wrong. Now, because it is a two-tier celebration cake, you MUST DOWEL THE CAKE. Honestly, this cake was just about using what I had in the cupboard for decoration and flavours – but I loved it! It’s a huge cake that would happily serve probably 40+ people at a party, but I gave out chunks to my family and friends! Dowels ![]() I love the effect it creates so much, I recently did the same with my Ferrero Rocher drip cake! I did a chocolate drip around both of the cakes, and used leftover buttercream to pipe onto the cake randomly. I decorated the cake in an edible rose gold (actually peach coloured) paint, which I use a brush to flick over the cake in a random paint splatter effect. It makes it so much easier than you have a metal scraper because it leaves the smooth finish. I use a small angled spatula to help me apply the ganache (and buttercream) to the cakes, and then use this large metal scraper to help smooth around the edges. It makes it perfect for applying to a cake! Tools I let my ganache thicken (you can speed this up in the fridge) and then whip until it is mousse like. But also, I find whipping it even better. You need to let the ganache sit until it becomes a thick peanut butter consistency. Then, you stir the mixture together until it is smooth! If it isn’t quite smoothly you can heat the mixture gently in 10 second bursts in the microwave until smooth, or in the pan again. I make my ganache by making sure the chocolate is chopped or in chip size, heating the double cream until just before boiling point, and then pouring the cream over and letting it sit. It may make it seem overly complicated, but I ended up loving the end result! It wasn’t too deep a flavour, and wasn’t too sweet! and I love them! I just happen to have the 4″ deep versions, but I bake the sponges, let them cool, and then split them each into two!įor the ganache, I used a mix of dark chocolate and milk chocolate because it’s genuinely what was there. The cakes were crumb coated with their respective buttercreams, and then I decided to use a ganache for the outside! Obviously, the recipe is designed to cover the two cakes so there is a lot of ingredients… but if you only want to make half you can! Tinsįor the cakes, I used two of these 8″ tins, and two of these 6″ tins. The top tier is a 6″ vanilla cake, filled with vanilla buttercream frosting. This cake has a 8″ chocolate cake bottom tier, with four layers of sponge, filled with a chocolate buttercream frosting. I will do more recipes in the future, and hopefully a full video too (which I didn’t have time for this time). This is just how I happened to do it on the day, so I thought I would write a blog post about it. I recently hit half a million followers on my instagram account so decided to make the cake to celebrate, but I knew you guys would want the recipe for it (and sure enough, you do!) So I have always posted blog posts about cakes, cupcakes, and various other delicious treats that are perfection for celebrations… however, I have never post a two-tier cake before! Please see my disclosure for more details!* A blog post on how to make the best two-tier celebration cake! Vanilla cake, chocolate cake, buttercream, ganache and more! ![]()
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