I'm about to use a cake drum for the first time, and I have a few questions about it.
First, do you reuse cake drums? I'm hoping the answer is yes, because they're not cheap. This is also just a practice cake.
I plan on covering the top of the cake drum with fondant, and putting a satin ribbon around the edge. Do you cover the cake drum with contact paper or anything first?
Thanks!!!
I'm not sure if you can reuse a cake drum. I tried to peel the foil off one and it made such a mess - they're really glued on there!! I guess you could recover it with different foil. You can make your own by hot gluing 3 or 4 cake circles together. To cover in fondant, i would just lightly wet the surface of the drum. I've done this with cardboard circles.
I cover mine with Glad Press 'n Seal which sticks really well and is virtually see-thru...it is food safe too!!
Forgot to add that when you are done with the cake just peel it off...knife cuts don't usually go through it either....I don't work for them...really 
HTH
Jane
I just bought a few of these as well and was wondering if I could reuse them. They certainly look nicer than the cake circles, but I do agree they are kind of expensive. I guess you could always just add in the cost of one if you were selling. Has anyone used the wilton ones (I see them advertised in the back of the yearbooks) they say they are reusable. Or is there anything like that that could be resused?
I think they look better too, but are so expensive. anyone have a link for less expensive drums?
No clue what you ladies are talking about BUT! I do recongnize that Cake Dummy word lol.
On someone's website I saw instructions on how to do these... she takes her styrofoam dummies and covers them with plastic wrap or like above the press N seal would work great. If she's covering it with fondant she covers it with butter cream first to smooth down the plastic wrap or plastic baggie whichever. And then she lays on her fondant.
I've never seen them in my stores and never knew people actually used them in wedding cakes until I read on the Wilton forum about it. I thought it was kind of silly in my opinion to make a 3 tiered wedding cake out of two dummies and a real top and then make 2 sheet cakes to pass out to guests.... it kind of defeated the purpose of saving money when the bride had to pay for the sheets as well as the dummies and everything.... I dunno just MHO lol
Yes I think we need to clarify... a cake drum is like the cake base, cake dummy is like a styrofoam cake.
I wouldn't use them over again unless they were covered...I use the Wilton ones..buy them with Michael's coupons then not so bad....
As mentioned, the press-n-seal works extremely well over the top ...I do this when I take cakes to work, bdays etc 9somewhere where you could take back your cake drum)...but I would bite the bullet and just consider it throw away if it were for a wedding...
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