I'm carving a cherry shape out of four layers of cake (torted into 7). It will be around 7 or 8 inches tall, so I'll need to add a board and dowels halfway up.

So my question is when do I do the filling and the boarding/doweling? Before or after carving? This is probably obvious, but it's my first carved cake.

Thanks in advance!

Hi there, have you seen Sugarshacks step by step? If not, here it is,

http://sugaredblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/story-of-cherry-hog.html

HTH.