Ok, I have this bride and groom who bought a expensive statue of a bride and groom, its about 13 inches high and is quite heavy. They want to have it on top of the cake (I had suggested maybe in front, but they want on top) I was thinking i would get one of those support systems where you have the rod in the middle and plastic plates for each tier? (it is going to be a stacked cake) or will the usual single plate system work? (I know no way dowells will hold this sucker up..I need something locking)
Please help! Any ideas???
I've seen that support system, it's pretty cool, but it is expensive. What about using some large plastic supports, I think Wilton makes some. Or use dowels, but go with some with a larger circumference. You may have to remove a little cake from the center, but at least the cake wouldn't fall.
Sorry, not much help!!!
I encountered this on my very first wedding cake. The bride bought a heavy porcelain gazebo that was about 10 inches tall.
I used the plastic plate and pillars for the top layer and dowelled the top layer to support the topper.
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Are you talking about doing a big center dowell? How did you get it to stay put, I am worried about it toppling over, since it will be sitting on fondant. Should I put a plate under it and then lots of royal icing?
What if you put 3 or 4 dowels all the way down thru the cakes to the main cake plate. You would use cardboard instead of cake plates for each tier. Then I would place the topper on 2 cake circles on top of the cake. If the cake is level it should be fine.
I separated my top cake with pillars from the rest of the stacked cake, but the topper I used had a round base, so I was able to dowel about 6 1/4 inch dowels in a circle to stablize the topper. What is the base width and depth of the topper that you have?
what size is your top tier and what is the width of the base of the ornament? I dont think supporting the weight will be your problem, its stopping the thing from coming off/toppling over. Depending what the width of the ornament is just make sure you attach it well to the cake plate, board or what ever you decide to use, you can do this with double sided sticky tape like 3M, or lots of icing. and put it on at the very last minute.
What about if you made your cake as usual, then, on the top tier, put a small separator plate--I think they make them in 4 inch--and dowel it and just let the topper sit on top of is almost as if it were another layer stacked on top of your very top layer???? Gosh, I hope that made sense!!! 
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