Square Wedding Cakes Question

I'm doing a 4 tiered square cake in a few months and I don't know what size pans I should use. Any suggestions?

Have you ever frozen a 14 or 16' size cake before? I just think they would be hard to wrap and freeze.

Also I'm worried about stacking them...I've stacked lots of round cakes before but never square ones.


Hi, Square wedding cakes are slightly more of a challenge, but not much different than preparing a round one. They are a little more difficult to frost because of the squared off edges.

The picture above is a four tiered square wedding cake that I made a few years ago. It was very heavy because of the fondant. Use extra dowels in a case like this and double up on the cardboard underneath each tier.

You didn't say how many people this cake will be serving, just that you want four tiers. Determine what size cake pans will fit into your oven, freezer and refrigerator and take it from there.

The cake pictured above was a 16, 12, 8 and 6. I was working in a commercial kitchen at the time with large ovens and a walk in freezer and refrigerator.

If you are making this cake from home you may have to make it smaller and have extra cutting cake for the bride and groom. You can try a 14, 10, 6 and 4. This should serve at least 150.

Freezing and stacking the cakes is exactly the same as a round cake. You can use a clean kitchen garbage bag as a wrapper or a commercial size Saran wrap.

Here is a good post about the process of putting together a tiered cake. There is a section on 3 tiered cakes and bit about freezing cakes