Hi everyone
I want ot make a 2 or 3 tier cake for my neices baptism but im not sure how to start. If i make a 2 tier cake can i just plop one cake on top of the other? Is it really necessary that I use dowels? Im sooooooooo confused. Can someone point me in the right direction? thanks
Hi milsofi, you can do either way if you want. I'm doing a two tier cake for my niece baby shower and I'm doing mine on four 9" pillars, size 16x3 bottom and 14X3 top double layers for each cake. I have seen people do cakes both ways. I hope this helps unless someone on the forum has another idea. 
Any time you place one tier on top of another, you need to place dowels into the bottom tier, then put cardboard on top of that, then the next tier. Wilton has the directions in all their books. There is probably a lesson on this site also.
i did my first stacked cake last week. it seemed over whelming but it turned out so easy i will do it over and over again! get some dowels (craft store in baking section, they come in packages) and cut 4 of them to length of bottom layer... stick them in spaced evenly in a square under where your second layer will go, then put some powdered sugar on the first layer where the you will be setting the cardboard from the next layer(keeps it from sticking), then place your second layer (on a carboard, very important) on the first. sharpen a 5th dowel (with a pencil sharpener) the the length of the 2 cakes stacked and put it down the center of both layers... right in the top. this is part that freaked me out.. but with a hammer and one good wack it went clean thru the cardboard... like butter... easy! now just decorate over the small hole. a tip: when you get to the point your dowel is ready to go in at cake level put another dowel on the dowel you have mostly driven in and hit that top dowel so your hammer doesn't hit the cake... does that make sense? it really is quite easy.. good luck!
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