I want to do a stacked cake for my DD 3rd bday(Dora party in May)but have never done this. I have been reading about how you use wooden dowels or hidden dowels, are these different? And is there an easy way to stack a cake? Probably a double layer 10" and double layer 8".... All suggestions are welcome!!
If it is just 2 layers you should not need to dowel it, but if you wanted to you just stick the wood ones in make a mark to see where it ends, pull it out and cut the dowels. Stick them back and you are done... Ice over them...
The Hidden ones... where you talking about the plastic tube kind?
If so....Same idea just a different material...
Florimbo,
Ummm... I picturing it in my head (which could be dangerous!!) So for a 2 layer I just put dowels from the top through to the bottom and its that simple? What do you do with the cake when ready to serve it, pull the dowels out or cut around them?
Hi-- I'm no doweling expert but have posted some questions about it in the past month or so.
I recently doweled a cake which was a 9 in. cake topped by a 6 in cake. You put your top cake on a cake board cut to size. Imagine where the top cake is going to rest, then drive your dowels into your bottom cake in that spot. Pull them out, cut to fit, put them back in and rest your top cake over them. This will prevent top cake from sinking into bottom cake.
If you've got to transport it and are worried, you can drive a sharpened center dowel through everything, cake board and all-- I've been told this but have never tried.
Hope this makes sense, good luck!
i have never tried it but was taught you drive them in, mark, remove and cut at the point where you mark and then put back, cut your board for the top tier to size and rest your cake on the spot were you have put in your dowel. goodluck, let us know how it turns out.
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