Help! Is My Cake Going To Fall Over??
Decorating By MarciaStewart Updated 13 Feb 2007 , 1:51pm by katerpillrgrl
My first attempt at a stacked 3 layer cake and I think its a nightmare. I made it for a baby shower luncheon tomorrow at work. I cut and inserted the wooden dowels into the first and second layer, but frosted and completly decorated the cake before I realized that I forgot the cardboard circles beneath each layer. Defeating the whole purpose of using the dowels. Its 1:30 in the morning and way too late to do anything about it now. I'm terrified that I'm going to wake up to a toppled over cake. Do you think it will fall over before the lunch time event tomorrow? I'm taking pictures now in case its the only decent view of the cake that the mommy to be will see of her cake.
I've done that a couple of times myself (did have the dowel, too. like you.)
It shouldn't fall over, 'cause without the cardboard rounds, that cake is stuck together like you won't believe. It may be a little messy cutting it up to serve, though. (But if you are doing the cutting, don't even mention the "oops"...just act like that was supposed to be that way!)
. Enjoy the fruits of your labor. Well done! 
You can also take it apart and add the cardboards. I realize you have already added the border and whatnot but it can still be done with only minor repairs. It seems like just a simple lift job and slide the cardboard underneath. Just make sure you lift the cake with something as wide as it, like another cardboard of the same width.
With my last stacked cake I had to do disassemble and recarve it for another error I made and it didn't turn out as bad as I thought. If you do this, be veerrrrry careful!
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