Dailey made this cake and I want to make one similar to it. I tried to pm her and left comment on this photo for her but I haven't gotten a response so does anyone know how she made this cake? It's so cute!
I'm not worried about the donut on top, just pan sizes and construction.
I want to know too! That cake is too cute... I am watching this thread to hear about it 
Sorry I am no help.
I am betting the whole thing is centrally doweled with the dowel secured to the bottom plate. I am also betting that the donut on top is not cake. Rice krispy treats covered in fondant maybe? 2 carved cakes with a separator plate and possibly some extra dowels to support the second cupcake so it doesn't sink into the bottom cake. Covered in fondant?? It's hard to see in the small picture..
yep, the donut is rice crispies, but that's about all the detail she gave on it. I've pmed Doug, so we should get a how to soon.
I want to make this a 3 ice cream cone cake instead of only 2.
The fancy people do something with PVC pipe that is angled but I don't know that technique.
The only other way I can think is that they have some kind of inner dowel and a small platform where the top cupcake is actually sitting level and the bottom part of the top cupcake is something non-cake....
this is a guess...ONLY a GUESS
(blue = dowels; orange = cakeboards)
link to full size image on her site:
http://shugees.com/candy%20cake.jpg
Not a fancy person but I do know a bit about plumbing. I use pvc for support in my cakes. A length of 12 ft cost less than $2, can't beat it. You need a small hacksaw to cut it, got mine at walmart for a couple of dollars. When you get the pipe you can pick up the elbows they are the little bended parts that you can use to join the pipe together and get the angles your looking for. They also sell glue for the pipe if you need to hold it securely.
Good job Doug. However, if I make these ice cream cones, and stack three, am I asking for disaster? I'm thinking 2 6" pans for the cones so 6 6" pans in all, then carving out 3 cakes baked in sports ball pans. If I dowel them as shown in diagram, is the 3rd cake going to tear away?
Thanks,
Amy
Good job Doug. However, if I make these ice cream cones, and stack three, am I asking for disaster? I'm thinking 2 6" pans for the cones so 6 6" pans in all, then carving out 3 cakes baked in sports ball pans. If I dowel them as shown in diagram, is the 3rd cake going to tear away?
Thanks,
Amy
3 cones will allow better placement of dowels (no center hole to contend w/)
so could have bigger cakeboard under top cone and more dowels
Doug, you are the man! I swear some of us women depend on your skill more that that of our hubby's, and mine's an EMS helicopter pilot! 
Thank you again, if it doesn't turn out, it's going in the disasters forum with your name on it! Not really. hahahahahahahahha, just a little "skeered". I haven't made a cake in a long time.
Not a fancy person but I do know a bit about plumbing. I use pvc for support in my cakes. A length of 12 ft cost less than $2, can't beat it. You need a small hacksaw to cut it, got mine at walmart for a couple of dollars. When you get the pipe you can pick up the elbows they are the little bended parts that you can use to join the pipe together and get the angles your looking for. They also sell glue for the pipe if you need to hold it securely.
What I do not understand is, even with the angle....how do you use that to support a cake?
With the angles being secured to a central dowel.. it allows for a very sturdy spine for your cake and less of a chance the the cakes will slide off the other cakes. PVC is thicker than your normal cake dowel so it's not as likely to slice through your cake like a cheese slicer.. and it is secured to the central PVC "dowel" so it's not going to come off unless it's unscrewed. You have to make holes in your cake boardsand cakes to accomodate the PVC.. it's a very strong way to support a big cake or a cake that looks like it'll fall over if you look at it funny. Extreme angles increase the chance of a mishap, but PVC is generally a much sturdier way to support a tricky cake.
And Doug.. your diagram is EXACTLY what I was picturing in my head.. much better execution on the explaination on your part.. you rock!
sorry, just saw this post due to amy's PM. i am in the middle of a move (ugh), we need to be out in less than 2 weeks and i have sooo much stuff left to pack! and of course with mother's day right around the corner, i had some last minute cake orders to finish up. so needless to say, i've been pretty absent-minded lately!
at any rate, i attached a link to where i explained how i did this cake. just scroll down the page, hope it answers any questions...if not let me know and i'll try to explain better! oh, don't forget to used a *very* sturdy cake!
http://www.sugarbuzz.us/index.php?showtopic=9490&hl=
I can't see what's on the link. Would someone be able to copy-and-paste it for me, maybe in a PM?
Thanks!
Deanna
I can't either and I tried to sign up and still can't get into any forums 
I couldn't get in either. It didn't like how I was putting in my state. So, I'm wingin' this cake. How nice of Dailey to share the link with us anyhow.
Thanks Dailey.
I registered at sugar buzz - and it said that I had to wait up to 24 hours before I could access all the files. So that was last night. Tried just now to view the file and managed to find it (the link didn't work for me).
So, I poked around for a minute and I found it by following these links:
Cake Decorating
Cake Pictures
Carved and 3-D Cakes
found it on the third page....
AND I was able to open it this time.
So just hang tight for a while after registering - try again later!
I hope it is okay for me to do this...I just figured since some people are not able to get into Sugar Buzz...I would copy and paste it here for those who can't see the forums on there.....hope it's ok!! 
Posted by Dailey on Sugar Buzz:
thanks everyone!
shawnster, the baseboard was about 11 inches.
the doughnut was so easy and i think was everyone's favorite part, just shaped the rice crispies into a doughnut-shape and covered in fondant. the "cone" was three 6 inch cakes stacked with a 7 inch cake (on its own cakeboard) sitting on top. the "ice-cream" cake was baked in in a bowl and i used leftover scraps of rice crispies (squeezed them into ball) and added them going around the bottom to give the "apperance" of the ice-cream overlapping over the cone. the "cupcake" was done in the same manner. the bottom of the cupcake was just three 8 inch cakes carved and stacked. i used several wooden rods wrapped in plastic wrap down the center so it would survive the trip to my parents. i hope that made sense! if not, let me know!
WOW!!! That cake is HUGE.... but the photo is so small 
I wonder if I can do a much smaller one...
Doug you are absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for all your effort!
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