Panic Need Help Asap For Stacked Cakes
Decorating By heavenscent Updated 29 Jun 2007 , 5:35am by miriel
ok what is foam board people? I have a wedding this Saturday I am decorating tomorrow. I have always used regular cake boards and wrapped in wax paper per classes I have taken. Am I going to do something wrong or is this ok? 
Foam core is 2 sheets of posterboard with styrofoam inbetween. They come in 20"x30" sheets in 2 thicknesses: 3/16" and 1/2" from craft stores. You will need to cut your own boards with them using an exacto knife.
You can use regular cake boards for your cake. On the bigger tiers, use several of them to make them sturdier.
you can not see the wax paper because its wrapped under the board. What do you wrap the foam board with and where do you get it?
I use the 1/2" thickness for wedding cakes. I usually cover them in Wilton Fanci Foil (silver or gold) which you can also buy at Hobby Lobby or Michaels.
In my local Hobby Lobby store I find the foam core boards in the framing & poster board section.
do you use wooden dowels for support with some comming through the center of the cake? Also are they very expensive?
I use straws rather than dowels and sometimes I use a dowel in the center that pokes through all the layers.
If you use a center dowel be sure to sharpen the end with a pencil sharpener so it will poke through the cardboards and foam core. The other dowels that support each layer do not need to be sharpened.
Here's a pretty good article here on CC that describes it:
http://www.cakecentral.com/article23-Teired-Stacked-Cake-Construction.html
Also ~ the wooden dowels aren't expensive. You can buy them at Hobby Lobby or Michaels in the Wilton isle.
when you go to michaels or whatever to buy the dowels make sure you get them from the wood craft section instead of the wilton section b/c they're much cheaper
sorry guys I meant the foam board. Thanks for the link steady that's actually how I curently do it. They said & used just a regular cake board as well.
The thick foam core is 1/2". It can make the cake look taller but I factor that in when I torte and layer my cakes so the tier comes to about 4".
I don't know if they offer more support, foam core is definitely cheaper than cake drums.
The regular price of the 1/2" foam core is 4.99 at Michael's, so with the 40% coupon, it comes to about $3. I can get several boards from 1 sheet, depending the sizes I need. The 3/16" foam core goes on sale regularly for $1 apiece.
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