How To Lift & Stack Cakes Without Damage

hi everybody this is louder and or me with crazy cool cakes and we're coming to you with a very quick but very important tutorial on how to safely lift and stack your cakes without damaging or ruining your icing and fondant at the bottom of your cake so we've actually had a lot of questions that have come from our stacking video so I want to show you all what we use this is our saving grace when it comes to lifting and stacking cakes this is a Wilton cake lifter and I know there are several brands but I really really like this kind it's very very strong and I'm able to actually lift and stack the teachers even up to 16 to 18 inches in diameter with justice Kaitlyn Wow yeah and if it wasn't for you helping me sweetie I probably won't even be difficult but I got for this cake lift or so a lot of you have already seen my tutorial on how to I so if you take a look at this six inch cake tier if you're wondering why I have an eight inch cake board here check out that other video I'll have the link for you here and that way you'll understand why I have an eight inch cake board underneath my six and share and yes there is a six inch cake board cake board underneath cake and that will remain there so I'm going to show you very quickly how I do this with my lifter first I'm just going to add a few little dollops of buttercream to my eighth inch cake tier that I already have on my board and please check out my second tutorial like I said so you can figure out or learn how to step your case with bulbous straws so this is very simple I just simply place my six-inch tier very close to the edge place the cake lifter and if you notice I'm taking the point only and I'm sticking it underneath if you can get a view there not too close sticking it underneath the cake - okay once I see it's underneath and I know it's between my 6-inch cardboard and my 8-inch hard work I just hold my cardboard and just slip it underneath I'm holding the entire cake tier to make sure it doesn't move on me and you'll see how I'm able to slip the whole thing underneath without ruining any of my Icee okay so all I'm going to do is just lift okay and here is my six inch carefully come over and what I do is just hold it as you can see I can hold the entire tier with the lifter it's very very strong and I place my hand in the back of the tier place the back of the tier right where I know I want it to be and very quickly once I settle it on there just pull away and then you can just put your hands position it wherever you'd like it as you can see this cake here is two-tone so I'm lining up my colors here okay I'm going to go ahead and add some bulbous straws to this here and I'll show you how to place your your top tier on top of this alright guys so I have my little four inch cake here now that I'm going to stack on top of my six inch and there's two ways to do this I do want to make sure that you all be sure to always clean your lifter in between second tears because of course you will get icing smeared on your lifter and you want it to be nice and clean okay so this little point here again just take the head the corner of your lifter and you just stick it underneath and again there is a four inch cake board underneath this orange chair this is the six inch that I simply I sit on okay and all I'm going to do is just move it around and make sure that it's free okay now I want to show you that there's a very easy way to do this so you can either just lift it carefully and just place it on top like I did the other one okay or if you follow the same technique I do in which your cake is rock-hard cold you can very carefully just lift it with your hand and just stack it on top without anything how that's very easy to do but give your buttercream is soft and you're afraid of denting and ruining your beautiful icing job then again just carefully lift it with your cake lifter place the back of the the cake tier right where you think it's going to go place it at an angle and just move the lifter out of the way and of course just a line so as you can see this cake lifter is amazing for us it's a must it's crazy full cakes approved if you guys want to see where you can purchase this please check out the link under this video in the description box and I'll have a link there for you for this cake lifter that we use let us know if you have any questions if you like this video please like and comment below and thank you so much for being a subscriber guys take care everybody bye bye bye bye now

Channel: Krazy Kool Cakes

Views: 423,349

Keywords: custom cakes, cake decorating, Krazy Kool Cakes, El Paso, fondant cakes, gumpaste figures, modeling gumpaste figures, how to make gumpaste figures, how to decorate with fondant, cake art, cake artist, custom design cakes, how to stack cakes, how to make a tiered cake, tiered cake, how to lift a cake, how to carry a cake

Id: G9vMIOHeknQ

Length: 5min 22sec (322 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 09 2014