Stacking Cakes Without Boards
Decorating By fromkimskitchen Updated 27 Apr 2006 , 3:21pm by Crimsicle
would you dare to stack any of the layers of a four tier wedding cake without boards in the middle?? i don't think i will...i think it will crack the lower layers if i do. has anyone done it before??
My first thought is....are you nuts!!!LOL Seriously, I would never, ever, ever do it. The cake will not have any support at all.
That would be asking for a MAJOR cake disaster to happen...
Is there a reason you would want to do it that way?
That would be one super TALLLLLLL slice of cake.
That would be one super TALLLLLLL slice of cake.
Hah! I didn't think of that!
I actually have done it with a small tiered cake. The layers were like 8, 6 and 3-inch but even that didn't work out so well because when we tried to serve it, it was difficult because the cake collapsed rather quickly. 
I've sort of done this before. I made a tall dinosour cake that I stacked up about six cakes that were all close in size. (there's a pic in my photos)There was a large dowel going through the middle of them that was screwed the bottom board. I sculpted the cake, crumb coated and covered it with "scales". I didn't have any problem with the cakes falling apart but there wasn't a lot of weight on the top of the cakes. When I cut the cake I just cut a peice and just slid the spatula in between the layers to lift it. ...Not the neatest way to cut cake,but it worked, LOL. Of course I would never do this with a regular stacked wedding cake.
Courtney
The only time I ever stack cakes without boards are if its a 3D cake that can support the weight, and I have dowels running through the cake, down to a thick styrofoam base.
I would never do it for a wedding cake. Anyway, it would be too hard to serve, you'd be messing up the top of the next tier while serving the one above.
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