Three Tier Wedding Cake Sizes

You will also want to make sure you have enough cake to go around and feed all of your guests.

Three tier wedding cake sizes.

Place the 6 inch tier in the center of the 9 inch tier again making sure to keep the cardboard circle beneath the tier. Slices are typically 4 inches high and 2 inches long by 1 inch wide. 12 inch 9 inch 6 inch. This creates a 1 5 inch ledge between the tiers which leaves me enough room to position and secure the flowers onto the cake.

Place the 9 inch cake tier in the center of the 12 inch tier. Weddings are not a one size fits all occasion and more couples than ever are choosing to ditch the three tier wedding cake tradition in favour of a single tier alternative simply because of their budget. Just 11 of couples will have a wedding cake with a single tier while 9 will have 4 or more tiers. While i would not advise freezing your wedding cake and then eating it on your one year anniversary freezer burn never tastes good you should take the top cake tier home to enjoy with your spouse the day after your wedding.

When doing this i like to have at least a 3 inch variance in the size of each tier i e. For example sometimes i add fresh flowers to my tiered wedding cakes. Be sure to keep the cardboard circle underneath the 9 inch tier. 3 hands off the top cake tier save the top tier of your cake for yourself.

Most ceremonial wedding cakes are made with two or more layers of cake with icing between each layer. On the other hand you don t want to be left with more cake than you know what to do with at. When estimating the size of a wedding cake assume the serving size will be at least that big and then figure out how many are needed for the guest count.