Sending An Unassembled Stacked Cake With Customer
Decorating By dsoutherngirl Updated 30 Apr 2006 , 9:19pm by dsoutherngirl
If it was me - I would use the Wilton hidden pillars between 12,10,6 & let the customer stack at the site. That way she is transporting 3 double layer cakes. That should be no problem. Once onsite she just has to put the legs of the plate into the hidden pillars already in the cake. And add her simple border.
I love the hidden pillars, I have never had any problems in using them. There is no additional support needed.
The only drawback is, they waste a fair bit of cake so you have to take that into consideration in estimating servings and also, you have to make fairly wide borders to hide the plate edges. Sounded like this cake order had a small border. But yes they are handy and stable.
Hugs Squirrelly
Hey squirrleycakes! Because of your advice on this thread I tried my first assembled delivery this weekend! It was a buttercream/RedVelvet/Creamcheese filling three tier square (3 layers each) wedding cake with fondant ribbons down each corner from top to bottom. I used the central dowel and lots of non-skid pads. It was perfect...even over country roads and 3 railroad tracks!!! Thanks so much. It would have been really hard to do the fondant work there as the reception was in a barn. 
Thanks! 
okay, I have another question about this. I am all psyched about using the central dowel and assembling the cake ahead of time this weekend but I thought of something else. They want a cake similar to the sage flowers cake like pancake's on this site. I will try and upload the link. The problem is..there is no decoration on top of that cake to cover the hole where the dowel goes in. It's fondant covered. Do you think I will be able to smooth it back over well enough? This is for a 25th anniversary. I could add a bow? This may be a dumb question since I know nothing much about doweling or tiers.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=sage&cat=0&pos=56&search=sage
Hey squirrleycakes! Because of your advice on this thread I tried my first assembled delivery this weekend! It was a buttercream/RedVelvet/Creamcheese filling three tier square (3 layers each) wedding cake with fondant ribbons down each corner from top to bottom. I used the central dowel and lots of non-skid pads. It was perfect...even over country roads and 3 railroad tracks!!! Thanks so much. It would have been really hard to do the fondant work there as the reception was in a barn.
Thanks!
Heehee, well I am glad it worked kiddo!
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes
okay, I have another question about this. I am all psyched about using the central dowel and assembling the cake ahead of time this weekend but I thought of something else. They want a cake similar to the sage flowers cake like pancake's on this site. I will try and upload the link. The problem is..there is no decoration on top of that cake to cover the hole where the dowel goes in. It's fondant covered. Do you think I will be able to smooth it back over well enough? This is for a 25th anniversary. I could add a bow? This may be a dumb question since I know nothing much about doweling or tiers.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=sage&cat=0&pos=56&search=sage
I just love that cake, so gorgeous!
Well that is when you go a slightly different way. For you top cake, you are going to cut a hole, I use the sharpened dowel to poke a hole into the top tier's board before the cake is boarded. I cut the centre dowel so that it is slightly shorter than the height of the total height of all the boarded cakes. Then I tap it through the bottom tiers, have a pal handy to hold that centre dowel in place, just in case. Then looking underneath the top tier's board to line up the hole to the dowel, I thread through that top cake. So you don't get a hole on the top tier's top.
Does that make sense?
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes
Yes! I gotcha! Work from the bottom on the top! 
Thanks squirrelly! Whatever would we do without you? Okay! Cross your fingers! I'm gonna give it a go!
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