Question About Putting A Center Dowel Rod In
Decorating By kerrbear0924 Updated 14 Aug 2006 , 6:30am by cupcake
I'm making my first stacked three tiered cake for my brothers wedding. My question is do you need to put a center dowel rod through the middle of the cake between all layers. Because the dowel rods i've seen at the store wouldn't be long enough to go through the entire cake to the very bottom. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hi and welcome to CC! You won't need to use a center dowel if you are assembing the cake on site. It is preferable to assemble once you get there to help prevent any enroute accidents! But in the craft section you can find long dowels but I would wrap them in contact paper since they aren't really considered food safe.
yes, advisable..
a trip to home depot/lowes/lumber yard or to the crafts section of Walmart or to Hobby Lobby/Michaels/AC Moore (not the cake area -- the woodworking area) will find you dowels long enough.
the lumber people will have the biggest and longest ones.
I highlyl recommend dowling all stacked cakes. You can never be too cautious. I entered a wedding cake competition last year and when I went back a few hours later for the judging one of the cakes was in a heap, it just slid over in a pile I noticed right off that there was no center dowel. Poor girl after all her work...
I always center dowel rod stacked tiers over 3, it just makes the cake a little more stable, even if the cake is assembled on site. If I have a customer that wants to pick up a cake, which is very rare, I always center dowel for transport for 3 or less tiers. Anything more then that I suggest modular set-up or columns.
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