Three-tiered Buttercream Wedding Cake with Piping

 This cake was a request from a friend for her wedding.

I started the day I put the cake together by making the buttercream. I made some raspberry Swiss meringue buttercream.

I also made a batch of cream cheese frosting.
I also made two cake boards to go under the layers. One 6 inches and one 8 inches. I cut out cardboard rounds and covered them in tin foil. I also had a purchased cake board that is 12 inches.
Then I placed the 10-inch vanilla cake on the purchased cake board. I filled it with raspberry buttercream.
I piped some buttercream around the edges.
And filled the cake with raspberry jam.
We had a total of 4 layers of vanilla cake. This is usual for a wedding cake. Nice and tall.
Then I crumb coated the cake with the raspberry buttercream and chilled it in the fridge while I worked on the other tiers.
Then I placed the 8-inch cake board on an acrylic cake board and stacked the red velvet cake on top of it filled and frosted with cream cheese frosting.
Also 4 layers.
Crumb coated and chilled.
The top tier is three layers of 6-inch red velvet cake filled and frosted with cream cheese frosting.
Then crumb coated and chilled.
Then I frosted each tier again.

Then I frosted each tier again with vegan American buttercream. I chose vegan American buttercream because it is the whitest and prettiest in my opinion.
And chilled them all as well.

Then I placed wooden dowels in the bottom tier and placed the center tier onto it.
And I placed dowels into the middle tier and placed the top tier on top.
Now that the cake is stacked, it's time to clean up the buttercream.
I also put some vegan American buttercream in piping bags. One with a medium star tip and the other with no tip.
I cleaned up the buttercream from stacking, filling in any gaps with the piping bag with no tip.
I piped a shell border along the bottom of each tier.


Then I piped some flourishes around the top of each tier.
Finally, I placed pink, blue and white flowers I had prepared beforehand.
I am so proud of how this cake turned out.
It turned out very elegant and very pretty.
But I have to admit, it was a lot of work.
The bride had a topper she wanted to use. So, I left the top open.
The bride was very happy with it.
And the cake got eaten as well. There was very little left over.
Congratulations Galina and Alex.




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