I'm sure this has been addressed, but can you use cut straws for dowels? I am putting a wondermold cake on top of an 8 inch layer and wondered if that would be sturdy enough..Also made hole all the way thru both cakes and going to insert doll into towel roll and run it into the middle.
Thanks for any suggestions...I have dowels if I need to cut them, just thought this might work.
Cindy
The straws can be trusted for this use, I have done it many times successfully, I use between 6-8 for this cake if using narrow ones or 4-6 of the larger McDonald's type straws. I cut them so they sit slightly under the icing level or almost flush. I have take to also using a circle of parchment. I let the icing set up, sprinkle some powered sugar and glue gun a circle of parchment to the bottom of the board that the top cake will sit on.
But I also prefer to use wooden dowels for larger stacked cakes of more tiers.
the straws will be fine for this. there is no need to put the doll into a paper towel tube before inserting her into the cake, just wrap the legs in plastic wrap. also if using a barbie, dont forget to cut a small hole from the center of the board between the 2 cakes for her toes to go through.
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