Ok, so I decided to downgrade the cake from a 4 tier to a 3 tier, but how the heck am I supposed to get a dowel through the cake when there are the carboard seperators dividing each layer?
I did this this weekend. I actually used 3 dowels because i read on here somewhere that someone used one and when they had to hit the breaks a little hard the dowel sliced through the cake. I use 3 and made a triangle. I used a pencil sharpener and sharpened the ends of all three dowels then i gently pushed them through the cardboard rounds in my 3 tiered cake.
OK thanks Ladies. This should be interesting. I am sooo worrie dabout stacking them, I am prety sure I can hadle the decorating LOL
I do the same as everyone else. I use a craft dowel and sharpen the end and use a hammer to hammer it all the way through. Since I started doing this I haven't had issues of the cakes sliding durring transport and such. Works like a charm and also gives the cake topper support instead of having to add extra support for the cake toppers.
I did this on the 3rd wedding cake I ever did, and once the cake made it to the reception site, it had settled and the dowel was taller than the cake. Not to mention that the cake was leaning. We had to pull it back out in order for the topper to sit on the cake. Now I do all of my stacking at the reception site and just use dowels for each tier and don't put one through the whole cake.
To avoid the cake sinking, you need to make sure the dowels on each layer are tall enough. If they're below the "surface" at all it's going to sink to that level. If the dowels are at just the right height, then the cake on top of it will stay at that level - then the center dowel just helps keep it sturdy and in place from there!
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