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9) Tiered Smash Cake Assembly Guide

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Prep Time 25 minutes
Chilling 25 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings: 1 servings
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 fully baked 4-inch round white cake layer cooled; use a trusted recipe or cake mix
  • 1 fully baked 2-inch round pale-blue cake layer cooled; use a trusted recipe or cake mix
  • 100 g prepared stiff buttercream 30 g tinted pale blue; 70 g kept white
  • 50 g prepared spreadable buttercream for the crumb coat
  • Gel food coloring: tiny drop pale blue
  • Simple decorating sugar or tiny fondant star: 1–2 pieces

Method
 

  1. Place the fully cooled baked cake layers on a clean work surface and trim their tops level if needed.
  2. Tint 30 g of the stiff buttercream pale blue and reserve the remaining stiff buttercream white.
  3. Crumb-coat the 4-inch cake with the softer buttercream and chill for 10 minutes.
  4. Stack the 2-inch cake on the 4-inch cake using a dab of stiff white buttercream as glue. Frost the 2-inch tier with the blue buttercream and smooth the 4-inch tier with the remaining stiff white buttercream.
  5. Add one tiny fondant star or sprinkle. Chill 15 minutes before photos.