Please Help Me Fast...boards Between 4 Layers Cake
Decorating By notjustcake Updated 12 Aug 2007 , 7:16pm by leily
Duh I am getting ready to start filling in my layer for my cake and then it hit me.I heard you have to dowel and put a board in between layers but do I ice and dowel the first two layers of cake than add the board the top two layers and then ice the top two? or do I fill and dowel the first two clayers then add the top two layers then ice? 
Am I making sense?
Are you making a traditional tiered cake of two different sizes? Bigger cake on the bottom, smaller cake on the top? If so, ice the bottom cake and insert your dowels. Ice the top cake on it's own board, cut to the same size (or slightly bigger) than the cake. Freeze both cakes for about 15 minutes for easier handling. Put the top cake on the bottom cake.
I'm not sure if your confusing layers for tiers. A layer would be 1 cake. You put your filling or buttercream on top and lay another layer of cake on top of that. then you usually ice the whole thing. A teir would be placing another 2 layer cake (usually of a smaller size) on top of the first one. That is when you need to support using dowels and boards. If you are making a 4 layer cake, meaning 4 cakes high with filling or buttercream in between) I would dowel and board between layer 2 and layer 3.
here is my rule of thumb. For every 4" of cake (don't count the filling in the height) I put in dowels and boards.
So if there are 4 layers of cake for a really tall round cake (think like pop can type cake) then I would have a board in the middle to support the top two layers. In this instance I would stack the first 4" and put a layer of buttercream on the top and let crust, then i would put in the dowels and boards and then stack the remaining two layers of cake with filling. Then I would decorate the cake as a whole.
If it was two tiers of cakes that are different sizes then i would decorate each sizes cake (with two layers of cake in each) then stack after each tier was decorated.
HTH, as I was also a little confused on which you meant.
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