Question About Stacking Cakes
Decorating By srdegelos Updated 14 Jun 2006 , 12:31am by fearlessbaker
I have only been decorating about 5 months so help me out a little. If I wanted to make a stacked cake using 9" 6" and a mini on top would I have to use dowels or a plastic cake divider? can I just lay them on top of each other? I guess my real question is when do you need to use the plastic cake divider and dowels? Comments for the novice would be great here. lol
I have only stacked a couple of cakes, but IMO when stacking a cake, you need to use at least a cardboard round under each cake to give it support. You should also use dowels to keep the top cakes from falling down into the bottom cake. I know there is a chart somewhere that tells you how many dowels for each size cake, but I can't find it right now. I'm sure someone else can probably tell you without having to look it up! Good luck. Oh, almost forgot. If you are transporting a cake, you should put a dowel all the way down thru the center of the cakes.
I have only been decorating about 5 months so help me out a little. If I wanted to make a stacked cake using 9" 6" and a mini on top would I have to use dowels or a plastic cake divider? can I just lay them on top of each other? I guess my real question is when do you need to use the plastic cake divider and dowels? Comments for the novice would be great here. lol
I did a couple recently. Don't just lay the 6" top, it will sink in. I used fat drinking straws as dowels, I think I used 5 under the 6" top tier. For the 6" cakeboard, I used the cardboard kind wrapped in saran. Also, sprinkle powdered sugar on the bottom layer [under where the 6" circle will go] and lay a circle of parchment too, so the top layer doesn't mangle the bottom cake when it's removed.
Hope I said all that clearly 
Thanks for all the tips, so when you use dowels they need to be exactly as tall as the cakes? and you just stick it all the way through the cake and then lay the cardboard with the parchment paper and powdered sugar under that. That makes sense so i'm going to try that and see how it works. thanks a bunch guys
I have always heard that when you get over 4inchs you need supports. So if you have a 2 layer bottom tier, and add to that a 2 layer middle or top tier you want to add supports to keep the middle or top layers from sinking into the others. Cakes are heavy! And I think it is better to support it than not. 
Lo and Behold, When serving a tiered cake in my own home they are just plopped one on another with a tuf board in 'tween. I use straws other times. There was some info about fatter straws and now the memory has faded. Where do you get those?
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