How Do They Stack These Cakes ??
Decorating By chelseabg Updated 27 Feb 2011 , 11:01pm by tryingcake
Please help my best friend asked me to make her wedding cake. Ive done a couple but never really used dowels or tiers... i cant seem to figure these cakes out and thats what she wants
anyone know how they stack these cakes what materials they use?
Chelsea
http://www.weddingasnwers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/square-wedding-cakes-picture.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_zYCwo3o1Y/TAYj6r9MYlI/AAAAAAAAAj8/6YsghGyLvPA/s320/2187282080103744212S425x425Q85.jpg
http://www.thecakelist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/square-wedding-cake-025.jpg
You can do it one of two ways (that I know of):
1. Use pillars a couple of inches taller than the layer below to leave a gap; or
2. Use a foam block as a separater that is several inches less wide than the layer above it (i.e. the layer of cake on top is 8", use a 4" wide block of foam).
One of two ways and very easy as at that.
You know the cakes with shorter versions of this style:
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1737152
or
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1435955
- and the flowers cover the spacers
or regular short columns and the flowers cover the empty space, like this (but the colums will have to inside more
http://www.thecakelist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/wedding-cake-pillars.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_U56yhynHDXY/S9Iqi1FJUxI/AAAAAAAAA3c/Dmcr6c6P8p0/s1600/weddings-cake-purple-round-3-tier-purple-ribbon.jpg
or even a shorter single pole as in this cake (my wedding cake)
http://family.webshots.com/photo/2787900370051689275wEPdNw
wa-la!
Thanks everyone for the help! i bought the foam ( guessing im going to use dowels etc) but i also treated myself to the wilton crystal clear separator set hoping that its the most solid choice ... im going to test try top two levels 
if anyone has used them let me know
thanks ..
p.s lovely wedding cake "tryingcake"
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