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If you have a wedding cake like the rose quartz deco cake in the tutorial how would you tranport it to the venue?
If you need a centre dowel , if so do you need to have it glued to the board and then thread all your cakes, through, can be risky handeling? How would you do it safely? Please let me know thanks

Hi qvkake

Some people do use centre dowel when transporting fully stacked cakes, some people transport cakes either double tiered or as singles and then stack at the venue. A sharpened wooden centre dowel can just be driven through the all the boards of the stacked cakes or it can be constructed. Please have a look at the following link for further information:

Centre dowel?

and for more discussion on dowelling and stacking please look here:
http://www.cakeflix.com/questions?s=centre+dowel

Have a look also at any of the tutorials which use a centre construction, like this:

Jungle Carousel Cake

and also the links given in the following question which use constructions:

Needs advice on treehouse cake

Extra strong tall cake boxes are also available from most online cake decorating suppliers. To see them, google ‘tall cake boxes’.

Hope some of this information helps.