Tiered Cake Pans

Round Tiered Cake Pans

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Round tiered cake pans are a mandatory tool for the amateur baker's pantry. They can be as simple as a set of different sized springform pans, but it is certainly a must. Due to their versatility, I want to explain a few of the great things that you can do with them.

The first and most common thing to do with round tiered cake pans is to directly stack them on top of each other. If you are only using three or four different sizes, you can stack them in creative ways instead of the generic one centered on top of the other. Just be sure that if you stack them offset like this, you make it dramatic enough that it doesn't just look like a crappy stacking job. When stacking cakes like this, they should be secured into the cake below so that they don't slide around. I like to use plastic dowels, but you can get a way with a straw or a pen tube, just be sure that you know where they're at so you don't cut into them.

If you want to make something more elegant, you can use tiered cake stands to stretch the cake to all time heights. When doing this, you have to be very careful to center the cake on the one below. If they aren't centered, the cake will have no balance and it can topple over! This is the common design for wedding cakes, but it can be used for any sort of baking application.

Round tiered cake pans have so many uses that you have to have a set of them. They will get much more use than you think, and after you get the hang of stacking them you will be creating creative and elegant cakes with minimal work.

Tiered Wedding Cake Pans

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Even when the economy sucks, people still get married. Baking your own wedding cake, or having a friend or family member bake it for you is an excellent way to save a lot of money on your wedding.

On the surface it may seem like a lot of stress to bake someone else's wedding cake, but with some practice and the best shaped cake pan it's not too difficult. The key is practice and baking off a test cake to show the bride and groom.

Tiered wedding cake pans are very common. Usually, they are just different sized round cake pans. To create the tall look of each level of the wedding cake, multiple cakes are baked and stacked on top of each other. The different levels are then created with stands and platforms that are secured into the layer beneath. There really isn't much to the actual baking of the cake.

Decorating on the other hand is where people get hung up. If you're baking a wedding cake for someone else, you both need to be extremely clear with what you want so that there isn't any sort of miscommunication or problems later on. If they want white, give them white!

Square Tiered Cake Pans

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Square tiered cake pans are an easy way to get a really elegant and sophisticated looking cake without a lot of work. The square edges of the cakes make them easy to decorate with fondant or with icing, and their level surfaces make decorating them a breeze. If you're new to tiered cakes, I recommend using squared ones so that you can get the hang of what it takes to bake and decorate them before moving on to big, elaborate, tiered cakes.

An easy way to set up square tiered cakes is to stack them directly on top of each other. This saves you the trouble of dealing with platforms and stands. When stacking them directly on top of each other, there still needs to be something to secure them in place. Straws work well and are free, but plastic dowels work the best. When decorating these cakes, a lazy susan is a necessity.

If you want to use separated tiers most cake pan manufacturers have stands and platforms that match each of their pans. This means that you will get a perfect fit. When decorating these cakes, you have to have the cake on the platform so that you don't smear the icing while moving it. Also, be careful to center each of the platforms so that you don't have an unbalanced cake. Unbalanced cakes will tip over easily, and I don't think I need to explain why that's a bad thing...

Square cake pans are an excellent choice for the pro or amateur. They are both a great place to start with tiered cakes, and a place to show off your creative muscle.

Mini Tiered Cake Pans

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Mini tiered cake pans are a great way to give an elegant look to your cake in an individual size. There are cake pans that look like odd shaped cupcake pans that make baking these super easy. If you don't want cupcake sized cakes, there are also cake pans that are a bit bigger and will feed a few people.

My favorite mini tiered cake pan is one by Wilton that bakes cakes about four inches tall. The cake looks tiered, but it is really only one cake. Due to their size, decorating these cakes is a pain in the butt, but they are very dramatic and elegant when finished.

Another cool thing you can do is to have a set of different sized shaped cookie cutters that you can use to cut tiers out of a flat sheet cake. I've seen this done a few times, and the cakes are absolutely gorgeous! You can make stars, hearts, dog bones or whatever shape you can imagine. The tricky part with this is creating the stands if you plan on separating the tiers. You can use the cookie cutter shape to trace and cut plastic or stiff cardboard. Their size makes this a pain, though.

Mini tiered cake pans are cute, elegant, and perfect for many situations. Flex your creative brain to come up with a good way to make them work for you. Just be ready to decorate some tiny cakes!

Tiered Cake Pans

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Tiered cake pans are an easy way to improve the elegance and increase the size of a cake. It is very easy to bake a tiered cake when you have the cake pans to make it happen. Tiered cake pans come in all shapes and sizes, but the most common are square, round, and teardrop. They are perfect for baking a wedding cake, a fancy birthday cake, or a cake for a special event.

In order for tiered cakes to increase size you can put spacers and stands between them. This is the common wedding cake design. There are usually three tiers that increase in size from the bottom up. These stands come in shapes and sizes that are directly related to the cake pan. For example, if you have a Wilton tiered round cake pan set, there is also a set of stands that matches it. It's very important to align your stands center on the cake, or it will be unbalanced and run the risk of toppling over.

If you don't want to use the spacers and stands, you can also put the tiers directly on top of each other. It's important that you secure them in place so that they don't slide around on top of each other. Decorating these tiered cakes is easy, and they take well to a smooth fondant job.

Tiered cake pans are an excellent way to create an elegant cake. If baking and decorating are your thing, I recommend getting a set and stretching your creative wings.