Waching daily Oct 26 2017

Hi guys, these are PME Easy Cut dowels you can get

them in your cake shops. I normally use wooden ones so I thought I'd give

these a go, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pause the video a minute and just

get prepared and ready and then I'll show you how to cut

dowels now okay so what I did was with my knife

I'm marked out my 6-inch cake and then I placed my marker on the top and I've

just in made little dents of where I want

my dowels to go. I want them to be quite strong

I haven't used them before, I like I said I normally use wooden ones so

this is trial and error for me as well so what I am going to do is push it

straight in and then I am going to cut with a pair of scissors

I'm going to take it out a little bit actually. I'm very impressed with these

so now I'm gonna go and do the rest of them and then I'll show you what it's

looks like when the cake is done. I have to say using

the PME easy bendable dowels, I would definitely recommend

you don't have to cut them, well you do have cut them but they're so quick to cut

unlike the wooden ones that I have been using so I think I'll be using these in

the future. Rght so we've got our dowels in support

I've already iced our six inch cake which has a thin cake board underneath because if

I show you if I put this like that on the top you don't want this thick board.

so underneath it has a thin six inch round, not a drum a thin. So what I'm

gonna do now is

fingers crossed, is lift this up and just place this on here and hopefully these lovely new

dowels of mine stop it from sinking

like so. So I'm very impressed with that but as you can see now I've got a clean board,

I can clean that down and reuse it for next time. so that's how we stack. Just a

words of advice guys something that I've just thought of if you're doing this at

home and it's for one of your children I wouldn't necessarily worry because

it's not actually moving if you're going to do this for somebody and it needs to

go into a car or it needs transporting I would make sure you put a dowel that

goes all the way through all of the cakes just to give it that extra support

A wooden dowel, a plastic dowel, whatever dowel you have put it straight through

the middle of all the cakes just to give that extra support. I have had it in the

past where I haven't and the cake has gone like that and it's devastating and

then you get an upset child or an upset parent so best thing to do is put a

dowel all the way through the middle if you are doing such a big cake