Ok, I have searched this site (in forums, and articles) and I cannot find anywhere where it says step by step instructions. I found instructions on the wilton site, but I guess I just don't understand them. I am trying to make a 2 layer cake (8" and 10") and I just don't understand if the dowles go through both cakes? through the cake boards? what diameter dowels? Get my drift? On the Wilton site, it looked like you just poked the dowels through the cake and they rested on the cake board... what good does that do? Or was I just not understanding correctly. You can all laugh if you want, but I need help on how to do this!
Thank you,
Kelly
I'm not laughing at all.
You need to have a sharpened central dowel. I sharpen mine with a pencil sharpener. It needs to go through both cakes and, yes, through the board. I get dowels at walmart...they're not that big in diameter.....about the size of a pencil, maybe a little larger.
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Good Luck!
From what I understand a lot of people dowel the bottom cake, put powdered sugar on the top of the bottom cake (to prevent the top cake's cake board from sticking to the icing) and then place a dowel all the way through both cakes.......evidentally a dowel with one end sharpened will be able to poke through the cardboard cake board and go completely through to keep the top cake from shifting
check out this article
http://www.cakecentral.com/article49-Building-The-Cake-Combination-Pillar--Stacked-Construction.html
Kelly
The dowels are in the bottom layer. Make them tall enough to give some support to the top layer. If I am doing a stacked cake, I do put a big one through both layers because I transport them already stacked. You are just trying to stop the top layer from smashing the bottom layer.
yes they go into the layer and sit on the cake board. What good do they do??? the support the layer you put on top of it If you use cardboard cake circles you can then put a center dowel all the way down the middle to keep it from sliding
I prefer using the plastic plates I think they support the cake better but then I have no center dowel
I also like the bigger plastic dowels 1/2 inch that wilton sells. The cake does not move as easily as on 1/4 inch wood dowells
Ok.... now I get it.... good thing I'm not an architech. lol. I guess, I was thinking that to be supported, the dowels (lots of them, not just the center) had to go through the entire cake, but now I that I know the purpose of them, everything is clear to me... I think that was the problem with the Wilton instructions, the purpose wasn't clear. Thank you for all your help everyone. I will post a pic, when it is all done.
kelly
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