To Dowel, Or Not To Dowel, That Is The Question...
Decorating By lfkeller Updated 4 Jun 2007 , 3:22pm by lfkeller
I am interested in this question as well. I have a shower cake to make and would like to make a sheet cake with a bride on top of it...I would think yes though. I think I will when I make mine. I think it would be best just for the support.
I am interested in this question as well. I have a shower cake to make and would like to make a sheet cake with a bride on top of it...I would think yes though. I think I will when I make mine. I think it would be best just for the support.
I am interested in this question as well. I have a shower cake to make and would like to make a sheet cake with a bride on top of it...I would think yes though. I think I will when I make mine. I think it would be best just for the support.
iddydebi - I know you are much more experienced than I (this is my first big cake!) so you can really help me here. The cake going on top is using a whole boxed cake mix. A boxed cake mix is a 2 layer mix right? So wouldn't that be putting the equalivant weight of 2 layers on top?
It's a very good question! It's a 2-layer cake depending on the pan size you are using.
If you were making a large, round birthday cake ..... let's say a 12" round .... you would be putting a 1.5 mix cake on top of a 1.5 mix cake with filling between them. A 14" round would be a 2mix layer, topped with filling, topped with a 2mix layer.
If we were doing a 2-layer sheet cake, I'd bake a 12x18 (3 mixes); put the filling on top then put the 2nd layer (12x18 - 3 mixes) on top of that.
That's pretty much what you are doing with this cake. you have a single layer cake on the bottom, some icing/filling on top of it, and another cake on top of that.
It's the science and math class of baking (see my thread on the cake demo I did for 8th graders ....they said they had no idea there was so much math in baking!). It's weight distribution. If it's a bigger cake, but the weight is spread over a bigger area, then there is no more weight on that 14" cake than there is on the 8" cake.
Here is a pic of my nephew's Harley Davidson Wedding in which I put a (one-mix) motorcycle cake on top of a (2 mix) 11x15 sheet cake. no dowels. It worked fine .... even survived a 4 hour drive from Indpls to Sidney Ohio! 
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=113113
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