Okay fellow CC'ers, it is me again. The cake I am making is a round cake with a pillow cake on top. Now this is going to sound like a dumb question but when making the pillow cake should it be on it's own board and do I put it on the base cake with the board under it? I am going to assume that the board has to be cut smaller than the cake so it doesn't show. The round cake is going to be buttercream with fondant strips on it and the pillow cake is going to be covered in fondant. This is the same cake I was asking about earlier. It is the one I have to have done for tomorrow.
TIA
Cathy

Yes, put a board smaller than the pillow cake underneath it. Good luck!

Thank you Motta. You don't know, by chance, how to make fondant tassels? Or what I can use to do them?

Can you give me an idea of where I can buy one, other than the internet?

Try the clay department at Michaels it should only run about $10-15 with lots of different shaped holes. In a pinch you can use playdoh tools, look for an extruder with a small multi-holed attachment thingy (which is a very technical term)

definitely put a board and dowel your bottom cake, whether it's a pillow shape or another round or whatever, what you've got is a tiered cake!

here's one I did and you can't tell the pillow has a board under it, when I was done carving I just flipped the pillow over and cut the board to the exact size of the flat portion on the bottom of the pillow cake. HTH

Khalstead, did you do the diamond pattern before you put the fondant on the cake?

nope, did it after I put the fondant on the cake..covered the whole thing in fondant then used a flat tracing wheel (looks like a mini pizza cutter but it's not sharp) from the sewing section to put the line around the edge to look like a seam and then just went at a diagonal angle and started making lines and then made them the opposite so they criss crossed.

Yes, boards/support between each cake.

Tina - LOVE your cake!!!! Fantastic tiera (sp?)!!!

Jen

thank you so much Jen, means a lot coming from someone of your caliber