From fabric-covered boards to spiralling staircases - build supports you can trust completely.
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Every showstopper you admire is standing on something you cannot see. This pathway begins gently at the base, where you will learn to cover a cake board with fabric for a neat, professional finish, then move straight into safe stacking with chocolate dowels – a food-safe, edible support system for multi-tier cakes.
From there the engineering steps up. You will build an internal four pillar stand suited to a two tier birthday or wedding cake, then a single central pillar construction that carries three tiers, learning to plan, cut, drill and laminate boards as you go. The heavy-duty project follows: a threaded rod and PVC pipe core designed to hold tall, weighty tiered cakes rock steady through assembly and delivery. Next you will shape and stack a Mad Hatter cake, where clever moulding, masking and stacking turn structure into a playful, wonky silhouette that still stands true.
The final stretch puts your constructions to work on show cakes. You will assemble a tiered waterfall landscape cake, coating pillars and top tier and building the falls around the structure, then take on a spiralling staircase wrapped around a single central pillar for a fairy tale wedding cake, complete with steps, sideposts, handrail and a castle on top. It is made for hobby decorators who have watched a tier sink or lean, and for professionals wanting repeatable, delivery-proof constructions. By the end you will be able to choose the right support for the cake in front of you, build it with confidence, and trust it completely.
