Do I Need Dowels For 2 10' Round Cakes?

Decorating By SueW Updated 3 Feb 2007 , 4:31pm by jmt1714

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SueW Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 3:20pm
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I have never used dowels before so I am still a bit confused.I am making two 10 inch round cakes and torting both. I will then have 4 cake layers and 3 icing layers, does a cake of this size need to be doweled??? I am afraid the weight might crush the whole thing. Does that make sense?

Also, how many people does one 10 round serve or two 10 inch round serve? Thanks so much, I am confused dunce.gif

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Jenn2179 Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 3:29pm
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No you don't need to dowel that cake. You only need to dowel if you are stacking cakes on top of each other. Not sure how many it will feed though.

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SueW Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 3:31pm
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Jenn2179

do you mean stacking cakes of different sizes? Thanks! I feel so dumb sometimes when I am on here icon_cry.gif

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SILVERCAT Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 3:40pm
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I believe if you use a 10" cake and a 8" or 6" you want to dowel them bc the weight isn't throughout the whole cake. Some of the weight is in the center and that is where you want to dowel it! Does that make sense? My wording might not be right.

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jmt1714 Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 4:31pm
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2 cake layers is really just one cake. no need for dowels. now if you are trying to do much more than that you want to separate and dowel, most likely. I have a photo of a ghost cake in my pictures - it is three 2-layer 8" cakes (each cake is a total of 4 layers since each round was torted). I made three different 8" cakes, then doweled and stacked them to be one cake.

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