How many tiers does your wedding cake need? Up to 34 guests one, up to 50 two, up to 58 three.
If there's a cake buffet alongside, half is enough in each case. Height is for the photo, diameter is for the guests. We deliver the tower chilled and fully assembled.
- One tier, 40 cm: 25 to 34 guests, €130
- Two tiers, 40 + 28 cm: 37 to 50 guests, €195
- Three tiers, 40 + 28 + 20 cm: 43 to 58 guests, €240
- With a cake buffet: plan for half
The question of tiers is really two questions. The first is arithmetic: how many slices do you need? The second is a matter of feeling: how should the cake look in the room when you cut it? Both can be answered, and they contradict each other less often than you'd think. The portions depend on the diameter, you see, not on the number of tiers.
Our figures are coffee-and-cake slices. This is how we have been cutting since 1992: a 20 cm cake into 6 to 8 slices, 28 cm into 12 to 16, 40 cm into 25 to 34. If the cake is served as dessert after the meal, the slice turns out smaller. Then you end up at the top of the range. If there's a cake buffet alongside, everyone takes half a slice, and the cake serves twice as many guests.
Size, guests and price
All prices are for the buttercream cake, the basis of every multi-tier cake. The tier prices are exactly the sum of the individual sizes. So two tiers never cost more than two cakes.
| Cake | Tiers | Guests | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 cm | 1 | 6–8 | €45 |
| 28 cm | 1 | 12–16 | €65 |
| 40 cm | 1 | 25–34 | €130 |
| 28 + 20 cm | 2 | 18–24 | €110 |
| 40 + 28 cm | 2 | 37–50 | €195 |
| 40 + 28 + 20 cm | 3 | 43–58 | €240 |
Which cake for which wedding
The celebrations we come across most often, and what we recommend for them.
Coffee and cake after the ceremony, a small group. Two small tiers give you the wedding picture without half the cake being left over in the evening. €110, can be collected.
The cake is cut and then served with coffee. Two tiers of 40 and 28 cm manage that on their own, and the cutting looks like a wedding. €195.
Three tiers give 58 coffee-and-cake slices. For the rest we set our regular cakes alongside: strawberry, Schwarzwälder Kirsch (Black Forest) or the Schokoladenmädchentorte, for €45 to €55. We don't build more than three tiers.
If the guests are choosing between six cakes anyway, what counts most with the wedding cake is how it looks. Three tiers for €240 are then enough, together with the buffet, for a hundred people, because everyone takes only half a slice.
One tier stands more safely than three when the cake waits outside for two hours. A 40 cm cake for 25–34 guests, in buttercream, in the shade, and cut as soon as everyone has arrived.
After three courses nobody takes a full coffee-and-cake slice. Plan with the top of the range. If you like, in a heart shape too: €15 more per tier, but a good quarter less surface.
What else matters with tiers
Each tier can taste different. Vanilla at the bottom, strawberry in the middle, chocolate on top: the flavour mix costs €8 per tier. That gives the guests a choice, and you don't have to agree on one flavour.
The surface decides the style. Smoothly spread buttercream looks soft and natural. Fondant (€5–19 per tier depending on size) gives a perfectly even surface for lace, gold and flowers, ganache (€6–24 per tier) a dark, calm tone. Real flowers are charged by arrangement (usually €20–50 per cake), hand-modelled roses €4 each. What goes with what is explained in Fondant, cream or buttercream?
From two tiers up, we deliver ourselves. The cake travels chilled and fully assembled and goes onto the table just like that. Delivery costs €5 in Soltau, €29 up to 25 km, €47 up to 40 km. If you collect the cake yourselves, put it flat in the footwell. With a three-tier cake we advise against that.
Taste first. For the tasting you sit down with the boss at the café, try the flavours and settle the tiers. You get an appointment by calling +49 5191 2110. Four weeks before the wedding is a good time.
One more tier doesn't make the cake better, only taller. Taller is for the photo, bigger is for the guests.
That's why at the tasting we ask first about the number of guests and the buffet, and only then about the number of tiers. Most couples end up with two tiers, and the third is added when the hall is large and the cake is cut in front of everyone.
FAQ
How many guests does a three-tier wedding cake serve?
Our three-tier cake of 40, 28 and 20 cm gives 43 to 58 coffee-and-cake slices. With a cake buffet alongside, it is enough for around a hundred guests, because then everyone takes half a slice. As a buttercream cake it costs €240.
Are two tiers enough for 50 guests?
Yes, with 40 and 28 cm: 37 to 50 portions for €195. The smaller two-tier cake of 28 and 20 cm serves 18 to 24 guests and costs €110.
What does a three-tier wedding cake cost?
€240 for 40, 28 and 20 cm as a buttercream cake, exactly the sum of €130, €65 and €45. On top come only the extras you choose: fondant or marzipan covering €5–19 per tier (depending on size, 28 cm: €8), ganache €6–24 per tier (28 cm: €10), real flowers by arrangement (usually €20–50 per cake), roses €4 each, delivery with set-up by distance. With four or more decoration extras such as roses, a pearl border or sugar flowers, you get 20% off all the decoration.
Can each tier be a different flavour?
Yes, for example vanilla at the bottom, strawberry in the middle, chocolate on top. The flavour mix costs €8 per tier. In the configurator you choose the flavour for each tier separately.
Do you deliver the wedding cake and set it up?
From two tiers up, we drive the cake to the celebration chilled and fully assembled: €5 in Soltau, €29 up to 25 km, €47 up to 40 km from Soltau. A single-tier or a small two-tier cake can also be collected, flat in the footwell.
How early should we order?
Four weeks ahead is good: that leaves time for the tasting and for coordinating colours and flowers. Three days is the technical minimum, but on summer weekends the calendar fills up early.
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