I've seen a lot of beautiful cakes that have tiers or dummies in between larger tiers, which give the cake more height and make the upper tiers look like they're almost floating on the lower tiers.

Like this showstopper: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1650180

How do I achieve this? Are these styrofoam dummies? Or some other materials?

Thanks!

Wilton's tailored tier separators:

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=ED71F2FC-802D-F658-0D505D3CAD8EFE15&fid=ED71F32B-802D-F658-07C7F119679A3EDB

But you can use appropriately sized dummies to do the same thing.

HTH

Looks like styrofoam circles wrapped , but if it's that they did a darn good job.

I am only guessing but that looks like ribbon wrapped dummies to me. Gorgeous cake!

Hahahahahaha JanH I have those. Dummy me.

So do you just dowel right through those styrofoam dummies when doweling for transport???

I just buy styrofoam circles at Michaels in the size and height that I want and cover them in ribbon ( or fondant). I use SPS so I just use the sps under the styrofoam and set the cake on top.

Thanks, everyone! Pardon my ignorance, but what is SPS?