What Exactly Is A 2-Layer Cake?
Decorating By heavenlyfire Updated 3 Jun 2007 , 7:15am by FeGe_Cakes
OK, DH and I are curious about this. Exactly what is considered a 2-layer cake? Is it cutting a single cake into two layers and filling, or is it stacking two full cakes? When we see cakes on here or in books, they look much higher and I am getting frustrated. Help!
I am working on my 'dump' cakes for the wedding cake I am doing next month. This is my first wedding cake, and it is for good friends so I want it to be right. The directions for the cake I am doing said to bake and cool one 2-layer 16, 12 and 8x2" inch cakes, etc. I baked a 12" tonight and cut it in half for the filling, crumb coated and frosted it. I looked at the decorating instructions and it calls for arches with 1" tops and 2" point measurements. Then the points have 3 balls on the end of them. My whole cake is maybe 2 1/4" high, this won't work....grrrr
2 layers means 2 layers of cake with 1 layer of filling between the cake layers. Wedding cakes are approximately 4" high so if you're making it 2 layers, each layer will be a little short of 2". I make mine usually 4 layers so my cake layers are a little short of 1" high and have 3 layers of filling for each tier.
OK so to understand correctly - you would bake two cakes of each size and then split each of them?
yes, you can do that or just put filling in between each of the 2" cakes.
Thank you so much - I was ready to throw this cake through the wall! LOL Guess I will be up later tonight, or I will just do the 2nd one tomorrow...good thing this is just the 'dump' cake and everyone at work enjoys munching my practices!
When you cut a 1 layer into 2 that is torting. It is considered 2 layers after you fill and frost, but like the others said just depends on the height of your desired cake. I don't torte (but I don't do fillings either).
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