Assembling the cake (wedding) 02 - house beautiful

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With the palm of your hand, smooth the top surface and then gently bring in sides of the fondant to attach to the cake. With the palms of your hands, rub slightly up on sides to form an even top edge. If fondant pleats at the bottom, gently unpleat and smooth out with the palms of your hands.

Place the 12-inch tier on a serving platter. Smooth fondant at the bottom edge to meet the platter and trim off excess fondant at the bottom with a pastry wheel. Knead all clean scraps into remaining fondant, rewrap and set aside.

To support the 8-inch tier, cut 12 lollipop sticks or chopsticks to the exact height of the 12-inch tier. Trim and insert them in a 7-inch circle straight through the 12-inch tier until they reach the cardboard bottom. Dab a little water in the center of the 7-inch circle to act as glue.

Roll out about half of the remaining fondant into a circle 16 inches in diameter and cover the 8-inch tier. Place it on the 12-inch tier.

Cut 8 lollipop sticks to the exact height of the 8-inch tier and insert them straight through, arranging them in a 4-inch circle. Dab center with water.

Roll out the remaining fondant and cover the 5-inch tier. Place it on the 8-inch tier.

Allow fondant to harden at least 12 hours before moving cake or putting on the decorative icing.

Fit the larger decorating tip into the pastry bag. Fill the bag with decorating icing. Test the icing consistency by making a few pearl dots on a plate. If the pearls have points, thin the icing with a little water, If the icing is runny and does not hold a pearl shape, mix in confectioners' sugar. Pipe all of the borders with the pearl dots.

Switch to the smaller decorating tip. Test consistency again. Pipe side design.

Completed cake should not be refrigerated and will keep up to four days.

To serve the cake, slip a butter knife between the tiers and separate the cakes. The top tier is traditionally reserved for the bride and groom's first anniversary. Wrap it in alternating layers of plastic wrap and foil and freeze. Using a serrated knife, cut the second tier into slices, The third tier should first he cut eight inches from the edge in a concentric circle. Slice the perimeter of the circle first, then the inner circle.

Slices of the cake can be served with fresh berries and vanilla ice cream.

House Beautiful/March/94 Scanned & fixed by DP & GG

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