I need ideas on what size of round cakes would I need to stack and carve. I am carving it into a pumpkin shape and it needs to feed 40 people.. Making 2 of them, icing them in BC and covering in Fondant.. Doing a Cinderella theme Cupcake Tower (April 15th) and two pumpkin cakes to go around the Tower.. HELP!!!
TIA

How's about two bunt pans. One upside down, the next right side up on top. That will give you the shape without much carving.

I have seen people bake 2 bundt cakes and put them together bottoms facing, then ice with buttercream. fill in the hole with icing and make a stem. They made very pretty pumpkins.

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Must be!!!! Or As I like to say Great minds think alike!!!!

I found the one I was talking about in the galleries. Here it is.

Well, I don't know how I did it twice, but you get the idea!

I've done two bundt pans to do the pumpkien. It gives you the natural shape with out the carving. I'm sure you could do it with rounds though, probably want to stack 3 or 4 layers and go from there.

Here is the one I did....

How beautiful!
I was thinking about this method too.. But I need it to have layers when cut... I was really thinking about makeing some rounds and just carving it round.. And adding rolled fondant to give the grooves that a pumpkin has, does this sound practical??? Think this would work??? But what size for rounds??? I need to make a practice one!!
Here is one carved.. But I don't need 14" rounds.. that is wayyyyyyyy to much cake.. What sizes do you think I would need to feed 40 people a pumkin?

Are you just feeding 40 with the pumpkins or are you feeding them with the cupcakes, too?

I would definately go NO smaller than 10". You are going to be cutting/carving them, so you are going to lose some servings that way.

You could use your carvings and then make cake balls into little pumpkins--that would be cute!! lol!

Lisa

Hi Briansbaker,

You can do any size, really. If you check my photos, we did a cascading pumpkin wedding cake with an 8, 10, and 12 inch pumpkin.

What you do is fill your cake and put your layers together. Then with a serrated knife, (make sure the layers have been in the fridge and are thoroughly chilled), just start carving off a little bit of cake at a time, rounding out the top side edges and bottom edges, indenting the center, and then very slowly adding ridges. It actually is not too rough to handle this one. Let me know if you need any more help!
Take care!
Ellen

I'm not the best at sizes, especially when it comes to carving, but I would start with atleast 1/3 more cake than you would need, maybe more.

My cake is done in buttercream and I did the ridges with a straw, so I basicly used the bundt pans for the over all shape, and added the ridge detail to it.

Could you torte the bottom one and fill, then board and torte and fill the top one?

Well I am doing 170 cupcakes for the tower and then 2 pumpkin cakes that need to feed approx. 40 people each.. so the servings will be at around 250 people.. Thank you so much for the responses.
OMG ellepal Your cakes are amazing. LOVE THE PUMPKINS!!!!!!!!!!! that is so precious and so detailed.. I hope my pumpkins look as good as yours!!!! THANKS again!!!

I did this pumpkin with two bunts and still layered them. There was 6 layers of cake with hazelnut praline buttercream in between all layers. It was for a party of about 50 with the layers and it was kind of tall it fed them all

Sorry to bump up an older thread but this is exactly what I'm looking for! My mother requested a 3D pumpkin cake for her birthday next month and I was stumped. Thank you!

I made a pumpkin using the Wilton Sports Ball pan. It looked like those round "sugar" pumpkins.

Ok Ellepal I looked through all your photo's but did not see the cascading pumpkin wedding cake. Did I totally miss it? Your cakes are wonderful.

I am making a small (mini actually) pumpkin shaped cake out of 2 mini bundts to do as a smash cake for my grandsons 1st birthday. What would you suggest for the stem? Should I just do a fondant stem. They don't have mini cake cones do they? If they do then I have never seen them.

Anyone?

Thank you Jorre. Sounds like I may have to do some shopping this weekend.

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I would do a fondant stem, turns out more realistic. That is what I did for the one I made.

what about williams-sonoma's great pumpkin pan?



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I made a pumpkin for Halloween last year. I used four 8" rounds and only carved the top cake to make it more round. I used the left over cake to make the stem. It is covered in buttercream and airbrushed.

Where can I find a mini bundt pan for less that $30? Does anyone know where I can get them individually?