I am making my first tiered cake. It is a 6, 8, 10, 12 round pans that are 2 inches high. I am using wodden dowels since I am not staying at the party and would never get my plastic ones back. How many dowels should I place to support each layer? I have no idea.
General rule of thumb on wooden dowels is 1 for every inch of the tier it's supporting--i.e 10 under a 10 inch, 8 under an 8 inch, etc. You can use half that number if using the plastic Wilton dowels (the ones that are nearly an inch in diameter). Always better to use more than less--a house is only as strong as it's foundation.
HTH
Rae
I use 4 no matter what size the cake. However, I always have plastic plates (not just cardboards) between each layer. Since I always stay at the wedding and cut the cake, I always get my plates back. On the very few occasions that I just dropped the cake off and left, I told them to just keep the plates.....at about three bucks a plate, they weren't worth the gas to get them returned.
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