Hi, I would like advice from anyone who uses bubble tea straws please. I read that if you use bubble tea straws for support that you should not travel with the cake stacked. Is this true? I have to travel 1 hour with a wedding cake and now am nervous about transporting it stacked if I use bubble tea straws. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have never heard that before. I use Bubble tea straws when I stack. I complete the cake at home and travel with it stacked. No problems....yet.....knock on wood.


The amazing Sharon Z. uses the Bubble Tea straw method as well. If I am not mistaken, she travels with them stacked as well.


HTH

Michael

I find bubble tea straws to be sturdier and more reliable than dowels under any circumstance.

Honestly, if your cake is 3 tiers and under you should be fine!

Thanks for the responses. I am doing a 3 tier, and later this summer a 4 tier, is 4 tiers too many to travel stacked?

Just make sure those straws are cut evenly and put into the cake straight. I also always put a center dowel through the entire cake when traveling.

I have traveled with a 4 tier cake. I just make sure it is chilled and that the center dowels (there are three center dowels in my 4 teir cake one through tiers 1 and 2, one between 1, 2, and 3 and one through the whole thing) are into the bottom cakeboard.

I'm in the same boat! I am traveling for the first time with a 3 tier stacked cake supported by bubble tea straws in my new CakeSafe and I'm a nervous wreck about it!! I have never stacked and traveled, always finish on site but with a CakeSafe sitting on my table, I really need to suck it up and quit fretting!

That cake safe will work like a charm ( I LOVE mine!) with that, you don't have a worry in the world.

Okay, I'm feeling a little less nervous now! Thanks!

Thanks everyone, that does make me feel better to know it can be done. Pinkpiggie78, I am a little confused about where you place the dowel rods, you stack tiers 1 & 2 and place a dowel rod, add the 3rd tier, place another rod, and stack the 4th and add the final rod? Is that correct?

where do you buy these bubble tea straws? Would like to order some.

Iris219, I buy them at my local Asian food market. They are made as drinking straws for drinking "bubble tea." They have a larger diameter than regular drinking straws and are quite sturdy. Many cakers use them as support within tiers of a cake because they are cheap (I think I get 100 of them for $1.25), easy to cut (with regular scissors) and, as you can tell from the responses in this post, strong enough to support cake tiers.

Be sure to adhere a riser under your bottom board so you can easily get your fingers under to pick it up. I use some round wooden discs from Michaels and use Scotch double sided adhesive squares to attach them. Works great!

Great idea about the riser underneath!