I made a cake last weekend (or should I say I made 3 cakes) It was a stacked wedding cake. Everyone I made leaned. Maybe my cake was to moist. I was up until 4:00am trying to get it to stand straight. Does anyone have a dense cake that will stand up? I need help guys!!!!
I am so sorry this happened to you!
The dowels may have been cut too short, or unevenly. Make sure all of your dowels are the same height, regardless of how uneven the icing may be.
There may have been too much filling between the layers and/or the filling was too soft.
Were the tiers covered with fondant? The weight of the fondant may have pushed down on the cakes.
I hope you're able to solve the problem for next time!
Thanks guys, I used the recipe cake mix from this site. It was made with cake mix, pudding, flour, sugar, butter, oleo, water, eggs & baking powder. The cake is delicious!!!! Maybe the pudding in the cake mix and the added pudding was just to much. I have never tried to stack a cake with this recipe always used the plates in between. Maybe my dowels were not correct. I sure do not know what happened but the stress was not good. Almost all of my layers crushed. I do not want to do that again any time soon.
I guess I am confused...
Was each tier unlevel before stacking?
Or was the cake only unlevel after stacking?
If each tier was unlevel, then it sounds like your cakes need to be leveled before stacking and you need to make sure you have your filling filled evenly between then layers.
If it was only leaning after you stacked then your dowels were probably unlevel. For each tier that you put dowels in you need to make sure you measure One dowel and then cut the rest the same height or this can cause the cake on top to become unlevel.
The type of cake really shouldn't have anything to do with how many tiers are sitting on top of it. The cake is not the support for the above cakes, the dowels and plates/cardboard circles are the support structure.
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