Do you think Brenda would use a saw, miter box, hammer, sand paper or pencil sharpener while decorating her wedding cakes?

Answer: YES to all!!

I use the saw and miter box to cut the dowel sticks to the size of each tier.  The cakes have to have these "support" sticks to hold up all the layers.  Otherwise it would smash itself flat from the weight of each tier!  You can purchase little plastic standard sized white "legs" to go with the cake plates, but I don't always feel they fit my cakes just right.  By cutting the dowels myself, I can custom fit them to each cake.  The sand paper is used to sand the raw edges left on the dowel sticks from the saw cutting.

Any time you have two tiers setting directly on top of each other, and it is going to be moved any distance at all.. it is safer to run a larger dowel stick down through all layers of the cake to keep things from "shifting".  I use a dowel stick that is about the thickness of a pencil and sharpen one end with a pencil sharpener to a point so I can use the hammer to gently "punch" it through the layers of cardboard that are sitting between each tier.

So you see, woodworking tools are very handy in decorating cakes!

--Brenda

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