Carve A Horse Or Pony Carousel With A Pole And Finial?
Decorating By drgrl21 Updated 19 Aug 2006 , 2:31pm by oceanspitfire
Hello All,
I am making a carousel cake/pony/horse with a stick on the middle of it. I wanted to know if anyone can help me figure out how to carve the body and the head and is there any tutorial on how to do it? I need this for this week, please help. My challenge is that I will make this 3d cake standing up using styrofoam legs and a styrofoam pole for the center of the carousel horse and finial.
I will be using 11x16 sheet pans for this. Any insight?
Thanks.
Hello All,
I am making a carousel cake/pony/horse with a stick on the middle of it. I wanted to know if anyone can help me figure out how to carve the body and the head and is there any tutorial on how to do it? I need this for this week, please help. My challenge is that I will make this 3d cake standing up using styrofoam legs and a styrofoam pole for the center of the carousel horse and finial.
I will be using 11x16 sheet pans for this. Any insight?
Thanks.
Ok first off, I know Wilton has a carousel horse cake pan but it's not a standing up one, which is what you want LOL. I have a huge number of cake decorator sites bookmarked and I've looked at most of them and I've seen some that had animals or other 3D shapes where a piece was 'suspended' or I mean sticking out with no visible support. My one suggestion was to browse some of those sites and try emailing them to ask what they do. (Unless someone here has also had same experience- I didnt look in the gallery specifically for what you are looking for).
My other suggestion would be to make the head itself out of styrofoam and construct some kind of dowel support that would have a brace (although on carousels I've noticed the horses heads are often up high and less at an angle so you could still use foam for head and glue dowel to foam and run it straight down chest of horse (would have to make 2 I guess not sure how, for dowel to go through each leg into sheet cake). If you do the dowel on an angle (speaking from construction experience, not cake decorating/doweling experience) you would run it through the foam head on an angle anchored into the body of the horse but would have to anchor it for stability with a dowel that goes up and down (sort of like a brace on a shelf, 2 sides to a triangle)-not sure how you'd do that for the cake though- I'm sure there is a method people have used. I'll try and find the one site where I saw something similar and see if we cant email them and ask how they did it.
The cake site I was thinking about - one of my favourite decorators to look at lol- charmcitycakes.com- a number of 3D structures requiring support-
I was also going to say if you're flexible you could search the gallery- I saw a few carousels- but they were not a single horse carved on a pole, they were the whole carousel with several horses each made out of chocolate instead- sturdier. Just an idea
Good luck 
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