Leah, I PM'd you my email! Looking forward to the instructions. SPS system is the next thing I am buying. Nothing is worse than driving 350 miles to do a cake, staying up for 2 days straight and the cake collapsing and leaning.
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Now are you saying that you measured each dowel in eacth tier? By measure I mean stick the dowel in and mark it and pull it out and cut it. Not stick in every dowel and cut each one by it's own particular measure in the cake.
You measure one dowel and make all the dowel for that tier that same length. If the dowel are all different lengths, the cake can fall over. Most iced cakes are not the exact same heighth all over --they're a little bit different because it's hand made after all.
I measured each dowel separately, my mistake. What do you do when you measure one dowel for the cake, cut them and then some of the dowels come out higher than the others when you set them in the cake? Do you just leave them and ice over them?
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Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:20 pm
You should look at your cake and find the highest spot and use that spot to measure your dowel. the cut that one and use that as a guide to cut the rest. What that does is give you a level platform for the next cake to sit onl.
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Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:09 am
Smiller94 wrote:
What do you do when you measure one dowel for the cake, cut them and then some of the dowels come out higher than the others when you set them in the cake? Do you just leave them and ice over them?
Oh oh oh-- well assuming the dowel are cut exactly the same length, you can add some more icing but your cake shouldn't be off by more than 1/8 of an inch or less. You can let them stick up a bit. No worries if they are all the same length--some will seem to stick up higher but they have to be the same length. Trim them all even to the first one you marked.
THE DOWEL HAVE TO BE LEVEL AND EVEN TO EACH OTHER NOT TO THE TOP OF THE CAKE
The purpose of the dowel is to hold up the weight of the cake so they have to be exactly the same length or the cake will be held up unevenly and lean or fall. No if you ice over them, the icing will not make up the difference.
All the dowel have to be the exact same length measured on a per tier basis.
Push a dowel in the tallest, thickest part of the cake. Make sure the dowel goes in straight up and down. Mark it with a pen where you wanna cut it which is where the dowel is level with the icing. Pull and twist it up & out wipe it off. Cut it. Use that to measure and cut however many more you need for that tier. Make sure they are all the same length.
On the counter line them all up next to each other like pencils in a case. Take your spatula and scoot the dowel back and forth on the cut ends to see if any of them are too long or too short. Trim them. But keep an eye on your first dowel and never trim that one! That is your guide. Insert them straight up and down.
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What do you do when you measure one dowel for the cake, cut them and then some of the dowels come out higher than the others when you set them in the cake? Do you just leave them and ice over them?
