Hi all! I would appreciate any input or advice you may have. I've made wedding cakes before, the tallest being a 7 tier. Anyway, because of the limits of my own strength, I always stack on site. I'm making my niece's cake this weekend and am more nervous than I've been in a long time. It's a 7 tier square cake (actually 8, but two of the tiers are only 1 layer). The bottom tier is a cake dummy because of the actually guest count. I've inserted 9 1/2" dowels in the cake dummy and now that it's covered in fondant am worried that I didn't put enough dowels in to support the rest of the cake. Normally I use the Wilton Hidden Pillars which are pretty strong in the cake layers, I'm just not as familiar with the dowels and since these are thicker than I normally see being used in cake, I'm hoping they will be strong enough. Any advice?
Thank you!
My concern was because there will be so many tiers (7) on top of the dummy. That's why I put dowel rods in the dummy.
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