I hope someone can give me a solution to this. I was bringing a stacked cake to a friend's house for a little get together. The cake was a small 3 tier cake totally iced in IMBC, each tier doweled with separate boards with 1 center dowel running through all tiers.

Anyway, the place is relatively close by but you need to pass thru several uphill/downhill roads. When I got there the whole cake was still standing straight but the WHOLE CAKE slid to one corner of the square cake board!!! And I was driving really carefully!

Needless to say the icing on the side of the cake got squished onto the cake box because of the slipping. Good thing this wasn't a paying job, my friends didn't mind one bit, but of course I did

How do I avoid this from happening in the future? Any ideas? Do I need to lay the cake on top of thick foam core as a base and have the center dowel pierce thru to attach it to the base?

HELP!!!!

Did you maybe forget to put some bc on the cakeboard to glue the cake to it?

So it sounds like the entire cake intact, on a cake board, slid across the big cake board, is this right? If so, I would try a small piece of the stuff you keep rugs from slipping on a smooth floor. If you mean the cake slipped off its cake board, then I agree, you need to paste it onto the board with butter cream. hth

You could put royal icing on the board before you add the first tier to ensure it sticks to the board.

Sorry to hear your story, hopefully no more

Actually I did put BC on the board before laying down the first tier, that's what's got me confused

If you use a foam core type board, you can drive the center dowel down into that, and used the crusting BC to secure the cake - I did that with the last 2 tier I made, and before that, I used crusting buttercream only, but I've never transported anything more than 2 tiers. I also use the nonslip stuff.

Was the center dowel through the cake board? That should have kept it secured. If not then I'm sure it was the frosting. That happened to me once. It was fine until it got in the hot car and I swore I would never use anything but a stiffer frosting again. They put it in the car before cooling it down and it was probably 100 degrees in there. He came back 5 minutes later and he said it slid when he came up to a stop sign. I had to decorate all over again.

It's that drawer liner you can buy in the roll. Kind of a rubbery meshy material.

yes . in the rug aisle of walmart, there is a non skid mateial you buy to put under a rug so you sont slip....you can cut this for under a cake when transporting it, to keep it still.

I can;t understand the cake moving entirely off your board, that is weird..use more bc maybe

I would hammer stake all the way thru foam board myself

I would think a chilled cake might not be so prone do that.
I don't let my cakes take on the heat of outdoors.
I keep them climate controlled in boxes.

I mean I've done everything wrong at least once so that's why I
keep them chilled and protected now.

I buy the non-slip shelf liner at the Dollar Store for a $1.00 a roll. I love using it for my cake boxes and also placing it the floor board of my truck, to keep the cake box from sliding.

God Bless,
Sharon

For my IMBC cakes, I use either regular bc as glue on the board (I usually have leftovers in my freezer somewhere) or a wet glob of fondant, rolled thin. IMBC is so slippery, I don't trust it to work as glue!

BTW congrats on the fantastic doweling job though; I mean the fact that your whole cake could slide but remain completely intact speaks well for your support system

Hot glue is your friend. I put a glob of hot glue on my cake board before putting the bottom cake down. I don't trust frosting, I use real glue. Works great for me

Bummer about your cake, at least it happened when you weren't needing perfection, and now you know to come up with a better system