Making Supports For 3D Cake, Is This Right????
Decorating By HammIamm Updated 24 May 2007 , 1:44pm by mamacc
i am wondering how you all make your sypport systems when assembling a 3D cake. i have books that indicate they just use wooden dowels, 1/4 boards screwed into the tops on the dowels for platforms and so on. but its typically wood from the hardware store. are dowels for the hardware store not sprayed with chemicals???
what else can be used in stead???
thanks
You can get dowels from the cake store that are food safe. or you can use heavy duty straws instead.
HTH
Diane
Depending on the cake you are doing, you don't always need to screw the dowels in a wooden board. If the cake on the small side sometimes I stack using dowels and boards and then drive one or more sharpened dowel all the way down through into the bottom board. If I'm using sharpened dowels than I make sure to use foamcore or cardboard for my base so the dowel will pierce into it. This has worked great for me so far, but it will depend a lot on what kind of sculpture you are making. For examle, on my standing dino cake I did use dowels and screws, but on my sitting princess cake I didn't use screws. The dragons I just used glue and wood boards.
Good luck!
Courtney
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