For those of you that make the number cakes, do you use pans shaped like numbers, or do you sculpt the numbers out of a square cake?
If you sculpt them, how do you do this?
Do you freeze the cake first?
Sorry so many questions, I am new at this!

I print up the size number I need. Freeze the cake. Cut out the number and then lay it on the frozen cake and cut around it like a template. Crumb coat the cake while it's still frozen, less crumbs that way.

It would also depend on which number you were doing too how you would cut the cake.

Your cakes are BEAUTIFUL... Hopefully my cakes will come close one day!

I cut them out of cake, I use a sheet, loaf or ring pan depending on the number. For example if I was make a "3", I would use 2 cakes baked in ring pans and cut them up to make the "3".

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