How To Cut A Wedding Cake With Dowels

Clean off any excess icing and or cake from your knife.

How to cut a wedding cake with dowels. Push the dowels. Tutorial with info and instructions on how to measure cut and insert wood dowels in stacked cakes multi tiered cakes or wedding cakes for support infrastr. Cut round cakes like a master.

Use the first dowel or skewer as a measure to cut all the dowels. Minette rushing of custom cakes in savannah georgia shares with you how to properly disassemble and cut a wedding cake. Then put the bubble straw in the same place you removed the wooden dowel from.

Insert the dowels into the cake tier spacing them evenly apart about 1 inch in from the cake board outline. Now instead of struggling to put the straws into the cake i use my wooden dowel similar size as the straws. Don t forget to remove the dowels.

Start cutting a concentric circle being sure to move in the direction of the serrated edge of your knife. Cut the dowel the correct length and then cut the remaining dowels for that tier using the first measurement. Cut your slices.

There are a number of ways to add infrastructure to the inside of a wedding cake or sculpted cake so it doesn t collapse. Using a serrated knife insert the knife vertically into the cake. How to unstack and cut a wedding cake for service.

After building 1000 custom cakes using a variety of systems including wood dowels sps and bubble tea straws i ve concluded that wood dowels are the most dependable affordable and versatile method of all. Put the wooden dowel in the cake take it out. About 2 inches from the edge of the tier.