Need To Pick Your Brains Help Please
Decorating By luvincake Updated 7 Nov 2006 , 2:58pm by cakesbyallison
I have a friend getting married in July. And she is wanting the grooms cake to look like an oil rig for her fiance. I was thinking of doing stacked square cakes and then sculpting it down to look like it. But, I have never sculpted before. Shoot, I am just in my 3rd week of Course 1 and already did a cake that I had used alot of firsts for me. I know that I can do this cake I'm just not sure how. She would like it to stand up. So any advice will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Ann
What if you made a 'facade' (sp?) out of four fondant plaques? Print an edible image or draw on each piece, the front of the rig, the two sides and the back. Then attach them all together at the sides to make a 3D structure on top of a cake (decorated accordingingly).
You have until July so I would get busy exploring options and testing what will work.
HTH,
Kat
That cake is going to get awful skinny when you get closer to the top. You will have to find a very long wooden support dowel, and hammer it through the cake. Which means you will have to cut your boards in the middle, to let the dowel through.
And you will have to use either several cake boards, or a cake drum made of styrofoam, so the support dowel has somewhere to go once it hits the bottom of the cake.
Since this cake is so thin on top, I do not think that a dowel that goes just to the bottom of the cake will be enough support.
Has anyone got any other feedback on this?
Theresa 
It sounds like you are headed in the right direction. I would think stacked square cakes would work great. You would definitely want to do the infamous dowel down the center trick. Pipe the cross hatches and load bearing frame over the base icing color. Perhaps blue with a matching backdrop as a sky?
Just my thoughts. I have a toilet and a skull to do this week. Uggg...what happened to pretty flowers and shell borders?
maybe do the very top in gumpaste chocolate um something.... there was a cool cake on here that had a lighthouse on top it was cool... i'll see if i can find it.
This is the closest thing I've found. A Big Ben Tower Clock. You might PM this person for suggestions. There are 2 views of it in their photos. One explains a bit how it was done.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=eifel%20tower&cat=0&pos=115&search=eifel%20tower
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=eifel%20tower&cat=0&pos=116&search=eifel%20tower
here is the lighthouse from emmascakes and maybe she could help if you pm her
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-68704.html
holy cow that clock tower is amazing !!!
Make the bottom of the rig(platform) cake, several cakes stacked on top of each other, the I would make the rest out of fondant, glued together with royal icing, and straight down the middle would be a dowel covered in fondant also.
Does he work on a rig-if so, onshore or offshore?
You know when I saw this, I thought of the cover picture, of the cake on American Cake Decorating this past month. It's the Eiffel Tower, but you could maybe do something similar ? If your interested, I can scan and email instructions.
Here's a picture
Oh would you please email them to me? [email protected] Thank you so much.
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