American Wedding Cake

Wedding Cake Recipes

This American Wedding Cake comprise of three tiers stacked on top of each other and is completely covered in butter cream before adding the decorations.

You can make it round or square and it could be covered with royal icing if you prefer, after you have added a layer of marzipan icing.

You can keep the decorations on your American Wedding Cake simple by adding fresh or silk flowers.

Or you can decorate it by adding twisting garlands of roses and leaves made from royal icing or sugar paste.

This recipe will make three round or square cakes 28cm (11 inch), 20cm (8 inch), 12.5cm (5 inch).

This size will serve approximately 80 people depending on how you cut it.

What you will need

600g (1 1/2 lb) butter or margarine

600g (1 1/2 lb) cater or light soft brown sugar

12 eggs

600g (1 1/2 lb) self raising flour

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

1-2 tablespoons cold water

450-550g (1 - 1 1/4 lb) raspberry or apricot jam

Apricot Glaze

2 recipes quantities of Vanilla Butter Cream

Decorations of your choice see below for ideas

How to Make the American Wedding Cake

Grease and line three round or square deep cake tins 28cm (11 inch), 20cm (8 inch), 12.5cm (5 inch)

Cream the butter or margarine and sugar together until very light and fluffy and pale in color (this can take up to 5 minute or more of beating).

Beat in the eggs, one at a time, following each with a spoonful of flour.

Sift the remaining flour and fold into the mixture with water.

Divide the mixture between the prepared tins and bake in a moderate oven (180C/350F, Gas Mark 4) allow about 40 minutes for the small tin, 1 hour 10 minutes for the middle size and about 1 1/2 hours for the larger cake, or until they are well risen and firm to the touch.

Turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely. Split each of the cakes into three layers and sandwich back together with the jam.

Place the two smaller cakes onto thin silver boards to same size as the cake and the bottom tier on a lager silver cake board.

Brush off any loose crumbs from the cake and it you like coat the cakes lightly with apricot glaze. Use part of the butter cream icing to cover each cake.

Position the cakes on top of each other and smooth the butter cream as much a possible using a hot wet palette knife if necessary.

Decorate the cake as you wish with hand made decorations, silk or fresh flowers or top it of with a themed wedding cake topper you can browse our store for some lovely themed wedding cake toppers you are sure to find one that suits your needs.

Simple Ideas on how you can decorate your American Wedding Cake

image by tracy hunter The bottom and top tiers of this cake have been made round and the two center layers have been made in a petal shaped tin.  With simple piping around the border and groups of forget me knot dots this cake is simple but very elegant	image by cordelephotography The butter cream icing has been made smooth and each layer given a different color perfect for a summer wedding
White wedding cake Three tiered wedding cakes has been iced using buttercream and decoated with blue silk flowers	Tiered wedding cakes Square and hexagonal wedding cakes decorated with green piped dots and fresh flowers
image by Moxlux This all white buttercream cake has been scattered with fresh rose petal that match the rose cake topper	image by Karla Cakes A simple wedding cake with a piped scroll work
Wedding cakes with fresh flowers Three tiered wedding cakes with fresh flowers decorating the top and cascading down the cake	Simple wedding cakes An elegant and feminine white wedding cake

You can also decorate your cake with a unique wedding cake topper.