How to Stack a cake using pillars and dowel rods

Unless you're making a one layer cake, which doesn't seem to exist all that often anymore, putting together double, triple, and even quadruple layered cakes requires that skill we learned by trial in error when we were wee little toddlers playing with legos: stacking.

While cake stacking seems like common sense, there are important issues to keep in mind, like preventing air bubbles and making sure the icing lies flat. Check out this video to learn how to stacka a cake using pillars and dowel rods.