As usual - I've got a silly question...

I've got a fondant cake that I'm going to need to stack before transporting. SO, to stabilize, I'm planning to dowel all the way through (in addition to my bottom layer dowels, obviously.) Unfortunately, the design calls for a smooth top with nothing to cover up the dowel hole. WTH do I do?

I would love to help, but i'd like to know myself.

so I am bumping this question to someone else.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for asking this question! I really want to know the answer too!

I'm bumping this one too - hopefully someone can answer this for us!

you can plug it with a small ball of the fondant, and then smooth some matching royal or BC over the top to hide the seems.

Drill your base hole through the bottom of the cake on the top layer cut the rod shorter place the rod through the 2nd,3rd layers and then stack the final layer through the bottom

Oh - I think I get it. Basically, stack the bottom two layers and sink the final dowel through them, then set the top layer down on to the dowel.

Smart!!

You guys rock!

now why the heck didn't i think of that.

I tell ya, you learn something new everyday.

thanks guys, very much!

I know, right? It seems like it's the simple things that elude me sometimes. I couldn't figure out how to get a full sheet cake out of the pan the other day and my coworker walked over, set a cake board on top of it, flipped it out and walked off with out saying a word.

DUH.

But - who's the one they ask when they can't program their blackberries, huh? Me. LOL

Or just use SPS.

Ok, Leahs - don't kill me.... what the heck is SPS?

A fab, cheap, sturdy support system that does NOT use dowels.