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If you click a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you!)Īssembling & stabilizing tiered cakes: Supplies and instruction overview 1. (Disclosure: As an Amazon associate I may earn from qualifying purchases, and my posts often contain affiliate links. This is another video tutorial that I found helpful. Scroll down (or use the 'jump to video' button at the top for a quick video overview of doweling and stacking a 3-tier (10-inch / 8-inch / 6-inch) cake! By extension, videos are worth exponentially more! They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. So – to help you avoid a cake-tastrophe similar to mine – below is instruction on how to dowel and stack a tiered cake! Video Tutorials Let people (::cough:: like me ::cough::) who have learned the hard way teach you the better way! One small cardboard cake circle and a couple of straws for dowels would have prevented the entire disaster! Seriously. The takeaway? Fails are part of the process, but YOU DON’T HAVE TO MAKE EVERY MISTAKE YOURSELF! The fact that I decked it out in chocolate candy and Cadbury Easter eggs may have had something to do with that. It was a tester cake, just one I made for fun, and my coworkers didn’t care how lopsided it looked the day I brought it into work.
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Lessons were learned! My top tier SANK probably a good centimeter into my base tier – and it tipped quite a bit in the process! My ill-informed brain: ‘Well, I think I know how to make a tiered cake.how hard can it be? Put the smaller one on top of the bigger one!’ Once upon a time I decided I was going to make a tiered cake.