Will This Cake Roll Away?

Decorating By shkepa Updated 28 Mar 2007 , 10:04pm by Doug

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shkepa Posted 28 Mar 2007 , 4:40pm
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OK I need help - I am making my first Grooms cake and he wants a soccerball. Just the ball is two small and I am making the complete round ball.
So I want to make two rounds under neathe it S0 I wanted to stack it on a 8 and 10 inch cake.
I have never used dowels - do you put one through the whole cake or just de every layer speratly???
An advise would be helpful

Thank you

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awolf24 Posted 28 Mar 2007 , 4:50pm
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I have not done a lot of stacking but I would put some in each layer to keep each layer supported and then especially because the ball might be sort of fragile on top, I could put one large dowel straight through the middle of all the layers for stability. I did that when I made a golf ball cake and it worked great.

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jmt1714 Posted 28 Mar 2007 , 5:15pm
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I would:

do 2 layers of 10 inch, then dowel and add the 2 layers of 8" (wiht cardboard support) then dowel and add ball cake (with a 6" trimmed cardboard underneath). Assemble the 10 and 8 inche cakes ahead of time, add the round cake on-site and add whatever border you want/need (personally I like the look off grass as a border/base)

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shkepa Posted 28 Mar 2007 , 7:28pm
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Thank you
Yeah I never thought of building it there good Idea

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Doug Posted 28 Mar 2007 , 10:04pm
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if you saw Ace of Cakes recently...they did a b-day cake for martina Navtrolva (sp?)

they made it look like a stack of tennis balls.

three balls on the bottom in a triangle and a fourth ball on top in the middle depression left by the three on the bottom.

very impressive looking cake.

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