How to Use Cake Dowels
Cake dowels are an essential feature to any tiered cake, adding stability to your structure and ensuring that the bottom tier is able to take the weight of the cake being stacked on top.
Failing to dowel can result in an unstable cake, one that can lean or collapse and make the bottom cake bulge – a recipe for disaster!
Discover how to effectively use cake dowels to create the perfect tiered cake!
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How to make
Before positioning your cake dowels, ensure you have a sturdy cake board to place underneath each of your cakes.
Without a cake board between the tiers, your dowels won’t transfer the weight and your top cake will sink into the bottom one. Always use a cake board which is the same size as your cake so it is invisible and gives your cake a professional finish.
The cake dowels should be spaced equidistantly under the tier they’re supporting.
Mark an outline of the size of the cake to be stacked on top and insert the dowels within this outline. Arrange the dowels in a triangle, square or pentagon, depending on the number you are using.
Push the dowels straight down to the cake board and mark each with a pencil where it is level with the top of your cake.
Use a sharp knife or strong scissors to cut the dowels all the same length and push them all back into the cake. Repeat this process for each tier of your stacked cake, except for the top tier!
When each tier has been dowelled, you can stack the cakes on top of each other, using a small amount of buttercream or royal icing between the tiers for added stability.
