Stacked cake from sheet cake...?

00kim00 · January 2014

Does anyone know if and how you can make a stacked/layered cake using store-bought sheet cake?

I LOVE Costco cake. I think it's the most delicious cake ever. I would absolutely just have one as my wedding cake except I want to do the freeze the top layer and eat it on your anniversary thing. So I wonder if there's a way to turn a sheet cake into a stacked cake. As far as I know, Costco cakes only come in full sheet rectangles, and I could get it iced in plain white. Any ideas on if or how this can be done? Any personal experiences? I'm thinking if I cut out the middle, sort of like a donut hole, then put a cake stand in the hole that's just at or below the rest of the cake's height, place the "donut hole" onto the stand, then smooth over icing on the exposed edges and the seam. But who knows how that will look.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Maggie0829 · January 2014

Why not just do multiple sheet cakes and make sure your venue or caterer cuts a large square from one, wraps it up and then you can just freeze that?

Or better yet, skip the freezing of the top layer thing and just go to costco and buy a new sheet cake on your anniversary.

tammym1001 · January 2014

I can help you with this because yes you can turn sheet cakes into layered cakes (not the way you thought), but I need some more information. Do you want to do this because you want a two layer cake? Do you want a two layer cake for everyone or just for your anniversary cake? How many servings of cake did you need?

00kim00 · January 2014

Thanks for the offer to help, Tammy. We're inviting 70 to our wedding (including 20 children, nearly all under the age of 5), but we're thinking maybe around 40 would actually show. And it would be nice to have a two layer cake for everyone, but I'm not too picky about that.

tammym1001 · January 2014

What I would do is buy two half sheet cakes. You can stack those on top of each other. Then buy two quarter sheet cakes and stack those on top of each other. You can put icing inbetween to make sure they stick together. That will give you two, two layer cakes. In the bigger cake, insert 4 cake dowels (you can pick these up anywhere that sell cake supplies). They should be spaced so that they are as big as your quarter sheet cake. Place your quarter sheet cakes on top of the dowels. The dowels will keep the top cake from sinking into the bottom cake. That will give you a two tier cake that is two layers on each cake. I know my grocery store sells little tubs of their icing. You could see if costco would do that so you can put a little border around the cakes with icing. If not, you can make it even easier by buying some ribbon from the fabric store and and wrapping around the bottom of the cakes to make a little border. I'll see if I can find a picture of what I'm talking about.

tammym1001 · January 2014

This picture shows single layer cakes which would be even easier for you to do.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=631&tbm=isch&tbnid=14TZPzU5hF2-3M%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marthastewartweddings.com%2F226844%2Fcouture-cakes&docid=0IWETGbSQepy8M&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marthastewartweddings.com%2Fimages%2Fcontent%2Fpub%2Fweddings%2F2006Q4%2Fwck13_278_0001_01_l.jpg&w=225&h=281&ei=ktDOUumjBNTQqwG19oDgAQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=31&page=1&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=0CFgQrQMwAg

tammym1001 · January 2014

Here is a link to the cake dowels I was talking about. You just cut them with a knife to the height of the cake you are inserting them into. You also want to make sure that the cake you set on top of them is sitting on a cake board.

http://www.joann.com/wilton-plastic-dowel-rods/8213811.html#q=cake+dowel&start=2

00kim00 · January 2014

@tammym1001, thanks. That's sort of what I was thinking. The only thing is, Costco only sells full sheet cakes, so I'd have to cut one into smaller pieces and re-ice it to stack them. They don't have half or quarter sheets you can buy

tammym1001 · January 2014

You can definitely cut them up and re-ice them. It would still be pretty easy.

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