Hi CCers. I have to make a stacked wedding cake and was wondering...if the top tier is left unadorned (on the top part) then how can you successfully dowel the whole cake together without it leaving a horrible mark on the top of the cake? (I'm sure there must be a way but I'll be darned if I can figure it out!!!) Please help!!!!
Put the top tier on a board with a hole pre-drilled in the center. Dowel the bottom tiers, allowing enough dowel to stick out the top that is about 1/2-2/3 the height of your top tier. Lower your top tier down over the dowel using your pre-drilled hole int he bottom
By the way, this is how I run the center dowel through all of my layers, fromt he bottom up. I use pre-drilled masonite cake boards (but you can do this with foamcore or cardboard as well), I run the measure dowel up through the bottom tier before attached it to the presentation board/drum, then I lower all my other tiers dowel OVER the dowel, rather than driving the dowel through after stacking.
You would just patch the hole with icing and smooth as usual if not using fondant. I'm not sure how do patch a hole with fondant.
If you are assembling on site you might not need a center dowel rod. I guess it would depend on the design of the cake.
Could you give us more details?
Thanks for the input! The cake is 4 tiers and fondant-covered. Each tier is sitting on a 1/2" foamcore board to add a bit more height. Stupid me...I should have thought about this BEFORE! It's too late to try PinkZiab's advice since the cakes are already to be stack and there's no way I drill a hole through the botton of the top tier at this stage. Should I just stick put a dowel through the bottom 3 tiers, then stick the top one on at the reception (and pray it doesn't fall off?????) Yikes!!!!
you can absolutely do that... if you don't put the top tier on until you are on-site, then you have no worries. The center dowel is to stabilize it for moving/transport. Once it's on the cake table, there's no way it'll fall off unless someone rams into it! Just "glue" it down with a squirt of buttercream and you'll be fine.
Thanks for the input! The cake is 4 tiers and fondant-covered. Each tier is sitting on a 1/2" foamcore board to add a bit more height. Stupid me...I should have thought about this BEFORE! It's too late to try PinkZiab's advice since the cakes are already to be stack and there's no way I drill a hole through the botton of the top tier at this stage. Should I just stick put a dowel through the bottom 3 tiers, then stick the top one on at the reception (and pray it doesn't fall off?????) Yikes!!!!
ok, i have a question about this method she might use, for future reference. If she runs a dowel through the 3 tiers and foamcore, wouldnt' foamcore "shreds" get on/into the tiers below??? does that make sense?? just wondering!!! good luck Kiwi!!!
If she runs a dowel through the 3 tiers and foamcore, wouldnt' foamcore "shreds" get on/into the tiers below???
If you were using foamcore or masonite, you would have all of your boards pre-drilled in the center before running the dowel (at least I would, with the foamcore, and obviously it's a necessity with the masonite). With cardboard it obviously doesn't matter--you can pre-punch the lower tiers, or not.
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