M&S cakes, potentially daft question,

It should be ok as the fruit is on the base but if you want piece of mind you could use dowels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qu9ZtV51RM

Ooh thank you

Will try and find something I can use for that, but wont stress then incase I cant

M&S sell those dowel (sp?) things lol but it shouldn't collapse, as long as the fruit cake is on the bottom as it's obviously heavy and dense, it should hold the weight of a lighter cake. I think it's more sponge-based cakes that collapse!

The wife and I had an M&S cake and they're fantastic and stable, you'll have no problem stacking them the way you've said without dowels...

Hope that helps!

Good to know thanks

If you're worried then cut some straws up, place three in the base (like the points in a triangle) and place the base of the second tier (the board) then the cake on top.

Usually the bases are flat and slightly smaller then the cake they support. It creates a structure that's quite stable and I've seen a lot of pro cake makers do it this way.

The M&S cakes sold in individual tiers have large bases so you would need to remove them if you wanted them stacked on top of one another. There are videos on the M&S website to show you how to use the dowels to support the tiers.