Hi,

I'm planning on doing a castle cake for my daughter this weekend. I'm planning a 10" with an 8" on top. Is it necessary to use dowels?

Yes, you need to dowel it...

My motto is "Dowel Everything".

When in doubt, dowel!

Yeah, you might get away with not doweling if you aren't going to be moving it. But do you want to take the chance?

Anytime there is more than one cake, you need to dowel. Why risk it?

I'm new to this. What is doweling?

If you put one cake on top of another cake, and don't want the top cake to squish the bottom cake, you definitely need to dowel.

Doweling is putting wooden dowels, plastic dowels or plastic straws inside your cake, the same height as your cake, to hold up the cake on top of it. Or you can use a long dowel and go through two or more cakes that are stacked to keep them from shifting.

Thanks everyone for the input.

Shamani

Definitely dowel it.