Styrofoam Wedges For Crooked Cakes
Decorating By melysa Updated 29 May 2007 , 2:32pm by paolacaracas
using the method introduced by colette peters to do a crooked whimsey cake with styrofoam wedges...curious, what type of styrofoam is best? the regular white foam dummy cakes or floral foam? i heard someone talk about floral foam before - which makes sense that it would be easier to hammer dowels through, but wonder if the green stuff would be too messy/ dusty etc on the cake. also if it would condense under the pressure of stacked tiers.
if white foam is best, any tips on getting the dowels through it? is it better to pre "cut" the holes for the dowels?
whew, that was a lot of questions...are you as tired as i am? 
I have done one of these, and I used the plain white styrofoam - had dh cut the wedges for me. I used foamcore beneath each styrofoam wedge, cut to fit exactly, and used foamcore under each tier cut exactly to fit. This way, there is no problem driving a sharpened dowel all the way through however many layers you have.
I was the one talking about the floral foam. works the best cause is easy to cut to the size you need, it does not condense. it never touches the cake since is sandwiched between two rounds of cardboard.
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