Why You Should Never Stack Untrimmed Cake Layers - Tasting Table

An untrimmed cake will taste just as good as a trimmed one, but appearance wise, a trimmed cake will always look better. Even if your cake appears to be perfectly round, as Fine Cooking explains, the bottom may be uneven. If this is the case, when you go to stack your cake, it'll be lopsided. Not only can sloped layers be a bit of an eyesore, they can also cause your cake to come crashing down, with the frosting creating a sort of slip-and-slide out of its layers.

For best results, Fine Cooking suggests to first cool the cake layers on thin, round wire racks to minimize any indentations. Then before stacking your cakes, make sure they are flat on both the top and the bottom, trimming where necessary. Sugar Geek Show suggests outlining the cake with small cuts before slicing all the way in, and being gentle with the knife to avoid worsening the sloping.

If done right, you should end up with a cake that's shaped well and tastes delicious.

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