I need to make a 3D dog house. My plan is to use 3 of the stand up holiday house cakes butted up against each other. I would like to tort and fill each cake. My question is to the construction so it doesn't fall apart like when you first open the bag of bread.

My plan -tell me if this will work- is to run 2 dowels vertical through the front and back cakes, into the cake board to act as "book ends".

Also can I tort and fill this cake as long as the filling is a thick one like oreos in buttercream??

Thanks for the answers! You guys are the best!

Kimberly

I've put 2 together and did not use a cake board except as a base for the whole cake. I used a pound cake so it was dense and put buttercream between them to act as the glue. They stood well on their own without any other support. If you feel you need to, I guess you could dowel them vertically. But if your not traveling with them, I don't see a need for it, IMO.

You could also dowel each horizontally and make sure the dowel goes through the base cake board to act as anchor.

Thank you KittisKakes

If you tort each cake and then turn vertically I think you may have a huge problem a bag of bread does give an idea of what may happen

a sturdier cake would be to bake square cakes and tort those and stack them and then carve the roof... I think you will be much happier and it will not risk falling apart


or use a 9x13 pan and cut in half you will need 3 of them 2 for the dog house and one to carve the roof.

You will not need cardboard between the cakes but it would make easier serving


I did years ago make a huge dino cake for my son and used round cakes on end to build and carve and it held up fine but I did not tort it I worry all your hard work will slide away with all those cut edges.

I have a friend that did a huge dog house for a football team banquet. She attached the square or rectangle cakes (whichever you prefer) to the height needed. She then created a roof. I don't recall what she started with but she ended with "shingles" of chocolate on top of it that she spread on a waxed paper and then cut. This thing was fantastic. Sad note though: she had to leave town and her husband and sons were taking to the banquet and....yep, they crashed it!! After all the work they had to run to Kroger and but sheet cakes!!

Why don't you use 10" square pans and stack them... then you have several layers to torte. You'd have to shave off a couple of the top layers to make a peak. Use covered cardboard (w/ fondant) for the roof.

Thanks everyone for the advice! I will let you know what I do.

I just posted a pic of the dog house. I ended up using the house pan and torting each one with a thick filling. The 3 fillings were oreo, ganache, and raspberry, all 3 cakes were triple choc. fudge. I butted up all 3 cakes front to back and ran a sharpened dowel down thru the front and back ones into the board. They didn't move! One problem I didn't think of was after icing all 3 cakes and their boards together as one cake I had alittle problem finding where to separate them when it came time to serve. LOL Oh well I figured it out and the mommy to be loved it!

Cute!!