DIY wedding cake makers, rejoice: new trend is in your favor.
Fashionable tilted wedding cake
They told me the layers are so heavy you have to put pieces of corrugated cardboard between the layers and support the cardboard with little pieces of dowels. Well, that was easy enough – however, after I iced it I sadly realized the cake was not perfectly level.
My delicious but crooked wedding cake, 1981
On the “day of,” my dad, who was an engineer, looked at it with displeasure, said “you need some shims,” and proceeded to square it up. Or so I thought he had, but when I dug up the picture, I saw the re-engineering had actually not been successful. Luckily the cake (which was chocolate with fresh cherries and kirsch) was delicious.
These days, if this happened you could just say you did it that way on purpose!
UPDATE: I am writing about my bake your own cake experience.
