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Watch more How to Decorate a Wedding Cake videos: http://www.howcast.com/guides/1048-How-to-Decorate-a-Wedding-Cake Subscribe to Howcast's YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/uLaHRS Learn how to assemble a wedding cake in this Howcast video about wedding cake decorating. Howcast uploads the highest quality how-to videos daily! Be sure to check out our playlists for guides that interest you: http://bit.ly/ytmainplaylists Subscribe to Howcast's other YouTube Channels: Howcast Dance & Entertainment Channel - http://bit.ly/vmB86i Howcast Family Channel - http://bit.ly/16dz9oH Howcast Food & Drink Channel - http://bit.ly/umBoJX Howcast Personal Care & Style Channel - http://bit.ly/vbbNt3 Howcast Sports & Fitness Channel - http://bit.ly/vKjUjm Howcast Tech Channel - http://bit.ly/rx9FwR Howcast Video Games Channel - http://bit.ly/tYKKrk Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. Emphasizing high-quality instructional videos, Howcast brings you experts who provide accurate information in easy-to-follow tutorials on everything from makeup, hairstyling, nail art design, and soccer to parkour, skateboarding, dancing, kissing, and much, much more. Now we are going to assemble a wedding cake. This is one of the most difficult parts of putting together a wedding cake, and it's also one of the most important. If you do everything 100% right, but you don't get this part right, nothing else matters. Nothing is worse than being worried that a cake is going to fall at a wedding after you've delivered it. So I'm going to show you the best way to put it together. We have our fondanted board here and the tools I need. This is a dowel I bought at a local hardware store. I've got a little standing block, and this is actually a miter box for dollhouses and a little miniature saw. These are both also X-ACTO products. The miter box will butt up on the edge of a table here so that we can saw our dowel rods to be the exact right size. Some people use straws. I don't find that they're nearly strong enough, especially for bigger cakes. Alright, so the first thing I'm going to do is attach my bottom tier to the fondant board. And I'm going to use a hot glue gun for that, which can feel a little strange. But remember, it's just going to be touching foam core on the bottom, and we want to make sure that that base is super secure. So I'm using a nice, big dollop of hot glue. Be very careful with hot glue. It's just like working with hot sugar; it's not something you can just wipe off. Alright, so I will tuck this in and just drop it right down. Since my cake is cold, I can manhandle it a little bit, push it around so it fits in nicely. There we go. And we'll come back and cover up those seams in a little bit. But first, we want to stack our cake. So, step one is to determine the depth of our cake tier, and I'm going to use our dowel for that. The dowel's been washed. And this feels a little dramatic, but I'm going to do it by plunging the dowel right into the cake. And I will figure out the width of where to stick that dowel based on the tier that's going on top of it. So I know that because this tier's only this big, if I do a dowel outside of that area, not only will it not support the tier above it, it's going to stick out and be ugly. So I'm going to eyeball measure it so that's how far apart the tier is. I'm going to center it on the cake it's going on, and I'm going to go in about an inch to make sure that it's perfectly supported and not at all visible. Alright, so plunge it all the way down. Press pretty hard. With a pencil, I'm just going to mark how tall that is and try not to poke my eye out. Alright, now I can move this away for a moment while I cut my dowels. Now, the tier that's going on top of it is not super big, so I don't need a ton of dowels. I can get away with five for this one. So this goes into the center. I'm lining up my little pencil notch with the mark. An...