I made a cake for my DH's Nana's funeral this week and I have a question about supports/sliding. The cake was a 2 layer sheet cake with whipped Chocolate Buttercream filling and buttercream icing, on top of that was a single layer cross. I didn't put a board between the two tiers, I just put the cross onto the sheet. ((its in my gallery). I am pretty new to this so I figuered doweling ect was really only for tiered cakes. When we were bringing the cake to the reception hall, it slid on the cake board to one side killing the bottom ruffle on that side.
So my question is, should I have doweled this cake to the cake board? To support the board I bought 1 inch thick styrofoam board that I covered with silver paper. I didn't have the cake board attached to this, but I used the skid mat to keep the two together. That is not what slid though, the cake actually slid on the cake board. So what should I have done so this doesn't happen again in the future?
doweling is generally to support heavy stacks, or to prevent the layers from sliding apart. In your case, a dowel probably wasn't necessary.
Like lasidus1 says, put some frosting on your board, then add the cake. The frosting will "glue" the cake to the board.
I throw a dollop of royal icing on the cake board and place the cake on top. It sticks to it like concrete!
You did a beautiful job on the cake, and your roses are awesome, definately glue the cake to the board with icing, I learned that the hard way also
You did a beautiful job on the cake, and your roses are awesome, definately glue the cake to the board with icing, I learned that the hard way also
Whoops didn't mean to post twice, we are having thunderstroms here and my computer is acting up and I didn't think it went thru
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