For Those With The Debbie Brown 50 Easy Party Cakes
Decorating By kris2005 Updated 18 Sep 2006 , 12:33pm by CakesByEllen
You could use mud cake, there are recipes here that you could follow, that would make it dense enough.
As for the dowelling, I like to dowel any stacked cake I make but I have made one of her stacked cakes before and didn't dowel it, it worked out fine. It really depends on how heavy the tiers/layers are and how firm the cake is you decide to use. If you do dowel, you will also have to put in boards under each tier so the dowels have something to support.
Good luck!
Hi kris- I made one of her cakes from that book before and I didnt' need to dowel but I don't think it could hurt.
I used the durable cake recipe from this site. Here is the link:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1972-Durable-Cake-for-3D-and-Wedding-Cakes.html
Hope this helps!!! Good luck!!!
Which cake are you making? That would probably help everyone tell you if it needs to be doweled or not. I just made one from a different book and the layers were so small I can see how they wouldn't need to be doweled - but of course, unlucky me, they started leaning horribly so I just stuck one dowel straight down through all of them and it straightened everything up. I'd probably have done that if I needed to travel w/ it too - although I've been told if you use sugar glue to "glue" the layers together that it should be just fine too.
How about pound cake? Looks like that might work. Good Luck
I'm attempting the same cake this weekend and I plan to dowel the layers. Last thing I need is for the cake to collapse on me!
Good luck!
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