Hi- I have a wedding cake coming up soon and wondered what I should do in regards to Doweling the cake will be a 11inch Square 4" high, the 2nd cake will be 7" Square 6"high and third will be 6" Round 5" high, Do I need to put a central dowel through cake? and how many dowels per tier should I do?
Thanks
Rachael

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I dowel each layer of my tiered cakes with 5 dowels (with 3 tiers or more). I put two central dowels down the center of the entire cake (I keep them separated about 3 inches apart). Why two central dowels? Because the cake is heavy with that many tiers, the cakes (at least mine) tend to slightly shift. I am always playing it safe with dowels.

When I do larger tiered cakes I use wiltons plastic plates and pegs supports. They lock into eachother so the structure is nice and stable.

Nikki, So Cal, www.Facebook.com/nikkibelleperchecakes

Thank You very much for all your answers :)

In UK we do not use the frosting covering as much as USA – favouring fondant icing to cover. So my question is regarding the frosted stacked cakes is – do you normally have to deliver them already stacked in their tiers? Or do you stack them up at the venue? What’s normally done? We would stack a wedding cake which already has rods through at the venue to make for safe delivery. Would love to know!

Karen MacFadyen - London UK - http://www.facebook.com/cakecoachonline https://www.cakecoachonline.com

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It's been a long time since your question. I'm still planning on making a cake of the same height. So I really want to know if your cake has a peg or not?
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