For this dumb question! 
How do you serve a stacked tier cake? I mean, how do you (if at all) "deconstruct" the cake to serve without marring the buttercream? Does the buttercream of the bottom layer look all messed up when the top layer is taken away? I know I should know this, but I am thanking all of you amazing "cakers" in advance for helping a newbie out! So how is it done?
HI All!
Here is how I do it. When I dowel the cake, I take a parchment circle the same size of the cake that is the next layer above. (I use the plastic dowels). Next, I fill the dowels with buttercream and then place my parchment on the top of the cake so that when you lift of the cake above it, it doesn't effect the buttercream on that cake. Do you get what I am trying to say?
You can either cut each layer and remove the saran covered board, or if you are daring enough, you can take each layer off, because the parchments are dividers that protect the layers below.
Hope this helps, Let me know if you have any other questions.
Bestest,
Dawn
The powdered sugar doesn't really help, it just soaks into the icing. Some people use coconut, but that doesn't help if you don't like coconut. I don't usually worry about it at all. By the time the cake is being deconstructed, it's not going to look complete anyway, and depending on who is doing the cutting, it's not going to be long before the "messy" layer is cut as well. If it really bothers you, I've read that you can put a circle of parchment or wax paper on top of the buttercream before you put down the top layer. It will probably peel off fairly easy with less mess, but nothing's perfect!
Aside from the bride maybe wanting to keep the top tier, no one will probably see the cake dismantled. That is, if they cut the cake in the kitchen. From what I have heard from instructors they usually just drop the cake off at the event and the kitchen staff cuts it up (after the bride/groom do their thing). If need be the decorator can instruct them on how to cut it.
HI All!
Here is how I do it. When I dowel the cake, I take a parchment circle the same size of the cake that is the next layer above. (I use the plastic dowels). Next, I fill the dowels with buttercream and then place my parchment on the top of the cake so that when you lift of the cake above it, it doesn't effect the buttercream on that cake. Do you get what I am trying to say?
You can either cut each layer and remove the saran covered board, or if you are daring enough, you can take each layer off, because the parchments are dividers that protect the layers below.
Hope this helps, Let me know if you have any other questions.
Bestest,
Dawn
This is excellent information 
THANKS!!
Lazy_Susan
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