How hard is it to get the dowel rod down the whole cake? Do you make a whole in the cake board before? I think I'm looking into this to much!

It is not hard to get the dowel through the cake board you just need to sharpen the tip I have even used an electric pencil sharpener to do this. Then all you do is gently pound it through the board. You don't have to put a hole in the board before hand.

I have heard that people use skewers too....evidentally they're easier to push through the whole cake adn they are pretty sturdy too.

I just read a post from Lazy_Susan. She recommended using bamboo skewers. You get a lot of them for less money and they already have a tip on them.

There's one thing that wories me about using bamboo skewers.... If you're trying to stabalize a cake for transport, esp. in a car, it seems like you would want something as thick as posibble. Otherwise if you were forced to hit your brakes, the skewers would cut right through the cake and you'd have a disaser... I know that can happen with regular dowels too, but since they are wider, it seems like it would take way more force, and could save the cake depending on the situration... please correct me if my logic is faulty... which has been know to happen! lol

~Kelsie

I sometime use wooden skewers and have transported a cake with no problem.

I prefer using the small rods through.

I have transported a cake before, and I have used the larger dowel sharpened to a point, and made sure that point went into the bottom cardboard layer.
Thank_God!
I did have an incident with the cake in the car, and even though the cake was damaged, the layers did not slid too much because of the dowel. If I had used the skewers, the layers would of slid off completely, I just know it! I just don't think skewers are sturdy enough to transport a cake with.

However, if your not going to move it, I don't see why skewers would work.

mcginnis