I am making a two tier fondant covered cake for Saturday. The bottom tier is 10" on a 12" cake circle, and the top tier is 8" on an 8" cake circle. I had hoped to assemble on site because it's my first stacked cake, and I don't want to risk a disaster...but HOW do I decorate the top tier border?

I really want to do the ball border, but have no idea how I can do it without having to manually do it on site! What do I do??

Please help!
TIA!

For just a two tiered cake I would put them together at home and do the border, and just put a dowel down thru the two tiers, and it would be fine.I don't ever do that, but I have had disasters from other people delivering the cake.I know how to drive with a cake in the car, but some people don't understand that. I just don't know how you could do it seperately unless you put it on a bigger plate. If you don't want to do that, I think you would have to put the balls on after you put it together at the site.

You could make the balls ahead of time and put them in a ziplock bag, then when you get there they'd be fairly quick.

You could make it out of fondant. When you get there put the cakes together and then add the balls of fondant to the top layer

You could make it out of fondant. When you get there put the cakes together and then add the balls of fondant to the top layer

Thanks everyone!
I will have to carefully consider what would be better for me to do. I don't even have a box big enough to transport a stacked 2-tier cake, so I don't know how I would do that.

Ugh. I may have to get to the site early and assemble there.

I assemble on site all the time - not a big deal at all. I just did a 4 tier one and had to do all the ball border on 3 tiers on site. Just get to the site with plenty of time. One perk to doing this, is you get LOTS of attention while working on the cake (I have lots of business cards with me to hand out, people ALWAYS ask for them!)

Here is the one I did on site:
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1408710