How to Shape and Stack a Mad Hatter Cake

How to Shape and Stack a Mad Hatter Cake

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Learn a couple of different methods on how to make a mad hatter cake ready for decoration.

Serdar will go through 3 different methods of how you can achieve a 3 tier mad hatter (topsy turvy) style cake.

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Mad Hatter Cake Course Material
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Track
Duration
Introduction, Tools & Materials
10:57
Recipes & Ingredients
3:04
Preparing the Moulds
2:43
Layering the Cakes
11:52
An Alternative Method
6:22
Removing the Cakes from the Moulds
6:34
Masking the Cakes
5:34
Coating the Cakes
14:30
Stacking the Cakes
10:10
Conclusion
3:12
Total Duration
1:15:31

While not everything on this list is absolutely required, these are the things used in this tutorial video. Of course you are welcome to find alternative ways of doing things and we would love to hear if you've discovered an easier method or better tool to achieve good results. Please note that some items may be listed as sets, and it is usually recommended to have full sets, it may not be neccessary. In most cases, only one item from a set is actually used in the tutorial. Please watch the tutorial before purchasing any items to make sure you are not buying anything you don't need.
Tools & Materials
Set of Brushes
Medium size, to brush chocolate.
Measuring Tape
Set of Knives
Flexible Scraper
Set of Scrapers
Set of Scissors
Icing Spatula Set
Rolling Pins
Preferably with no scratches or dents.
Needle or Pin
Serdar often uses a needle or a pin to remove air bubbles from underneath the fondant when coating a cake. They can also be used to pick up very small objects when decorating.
Craft Knife
Fondant Smoother
Hand Towels
Ensure fibers are not loose.
Threaded Rod (8mm)
32cm to 35cm long
Hexagonal Nut (8mm)
4
Cake Board
Round, 40cm diametre, covered with fabric.
A piece of wood coated with fabric and temporarily covered with cellophane to keep fabric clean until the cake is complete. For more information, watch our tutorial on how to cover a cake board with fabric .
Milk Board Circles
For between cakes.
Very thin cardboard that is poly coated on both sides.
Recipes & Ingredients
Corn Starch
For dusting.
Corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour or maize starch or maize is the starch derived from the corn (maize) grain. The starch is obtained from the endosperm of…
Rolling Fondant
Dark Chocolate
Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown, food preparation of Theobroma cacao seeds, roasted and ground, often flavored, as with vanilla. It is made in the…
Other Required Items
3 Different sized plastic buckets
5cm graduation

Should be angled as possible. Thin plastic pot plants may be used.

November 14, 2015
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    6 comments

    1. Marcelo Henrique Leite says:

      Dear Chef Yeners, please I would like to ask if is necessary to temper the chocolate to use in the container method?
      Thank you in advance!

      1. Serdar Yener says:

        Yes but you don’t have to be too critical. If you using compound use microvawe till completely melted don’t over heat. If you use couverture melt till you have still some unmelted pieces in the chocolate then mix till all melted without further heating.

    2. Marcelo Henrique Leite says:

      Is an amazing tutorial! I learnt a lot. Thank you. :oD

    3. Lucia Suciu says:

      Fantastic tutorial , many thanks.

    4. Saeeda Zaidi says:

      Looking forward to this, your precise calculations makes all instructions easy to understand and follow. May you stay blessed

    5. Cheryl Anderson says:

      Would love to learn how to make one of these, they look so tricky but know that Chef Yener will make it look easy and teach us how 🙂

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