I am baking my cakes right now for a wedding cake... and my 12 inch ones cracked despite much effort to stop it from happening. I really do not have time to bake another batch and I am afraid it would end up the same anyways. Will it be still safe to stack them if I put lot's of dowels into it. It is going to be a 4 tier cake and the 12" is on the bottom. The crack didn't go all the way across but there are big cracks in the middle. Please help me to know what to do... I don't want to mess it up and I really need it to be stable. TIA!
ok so I stacked the 12" on top of eachother and they didn't fall completely apart... so I guess that is a good sign. So, do you think that they should be ok then? The one is pretty badly cracked but I think I might be able to patch it a bit with BC. What do you think?
don't forget how to spackle. mix cake crumbs w/ icing, fill in the cracks. This works most of the time.
I'd worry about it cracking further during transport. If you can, I'd assemble the other three layers, and then put them on the bottom layer at the reception site.
Thank you so much Ladies! I have stacked and iced the 12" with BC... so far it looks normal. I am covering it with Fondant as well, so hopefully that will help hold it together as well. Neither of them is cracked all the way through which is good. Thanks so much for all the advice. 
I've had the bottom tier of a 4 tier cake collapse during transport (although, mine was a 16" layer) - and it's not pretty.
If it is doweled properly than there shouldn't be any weight from the other layers weighing on the 12" and you should be OK. But if your dowels aren't perfectly level you might have a problem. I have had that happen before and it turned out fine, but I used uh-oh forgot what they're called.... Wilton - hollow tubes that fit into the plate and stacked that. It was also fondant covered, that sure does help!
Brandi, what did you do?
I cried. 
And then I removed the top three tiers and displayed them, while the bottom tier was cut up in the kitchen.
And then I went home and cried some more.
You poor thing, what a nightmare.
Speaking of nighmares, I had one last night that I deliverd a cake and when I got there it wasn't level. I was trying to fix it and some kids ran into the table and the whole cake fell.
I did do a Graduation cake (sheet cake) and some braty kids where playing knocked the legs from under the card table and the cake went flying across the room. At least it had been cut and served.
Then doing a wedding cake (four tiers and two side cakes) the same children where running around and chasing each other around the cake table. No one seemed to care, I was a guest so was there for the whole thing. I was a nervious wreck.
The parents were mad because I asked the children not to play by the cake table. What is wrong with parents these days?
That's why I take pictures of the cake set up. That way if something happens to it after delivery it's not on me.
I take pictures too. I started doing that when I worked for another bakery - and somebody complained about a cake someone else did. I wasn't going to let that happen to me, and I always had my camera with me for deliveries.
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