Does anyone know how you would go about supporting a cake if it is standing on it's end? For example a 9inch square. What would you have to do to ensure it didn't fall over?

I would say you would have to dowel the heck out of it.......or at least that's what I would do!!!

If you do it that way (on end), make sure it's a dense cake! You could also stack it. Bake the cake, then cut it in 3" strips (if that's how wide you want it) then stack them to get the height. Still put dowels in it! Even have the dowels go through the cake board for an anchor!

When I did a fishbowl cake, I didn't dowel it at all, but I did make sure I used a dense cake. I used a thick "glue" between the layers of choc fudge bc. I didn't have a problem with it at all.

I'd probably place it on thick styrofoam and run several bamboo skewers through it instead of dowels - and down into the styrofoam.

When I made my toilet cake, I baked a dense cake in bread loaf dishes and then stacked them and doweled them also.

Vie

Yes, it dooes seem safer to use dowels. Thanks for your advice everyone.