I want to make a spiderman cake for my nephew's b-day. I have a spiderman figure and doc oc figure that I was going to put on a tall building. I have 9x9 square pans and was going to cut them in 4ths and layer them to make a tall building. Do I need to use a cake board and dowels in between layers or how should I support this? Is this a bad idea? TIA
you will need to add a cake board at every 2 layers, just like a wedding cake, with dowels in each section. You will also need a dowel to go down through the lot and into the board to make sure it stays standing. the only problem i can see is that you will only be using 4 1/2 " cakes which wont leave you with alot of space for the layer dowels and that center dowel. If you are not transporting it anywhere all should go well, but if you are, then i also would prefer to use 2 center dowels so the cake doesn't twist.
you will need to add a cake board at every 2 layers, just like a wedding cake, with dowels in each section. You will also need a dowel to go down through the lot and into the board to make sure it stays standing. the only problem i can see is that you will only be using 4 1/2 " cakes which wont leave you with alot of space for the layer dowels and that center dowel. If you are not transporting it anywhere all should go well, but if you are, then i also would prefer to use 2 center dowels so the cake doesn't twist.
ditto.
to make it easier to get the center dowels through the cakes AND the cardboards in between, first sharpen one end of your dowel rod. take a clean kitchen towel and wrap it around a hammer and gently tap it through. make your center dowel an inch or so shorter than your completed cake. when you get to the point that it the dowel is close to touching the cake, take another piece of dowel, place it on top of the dowel that is inserted in your cake and tap that. this way, the dowel goes below the icing, and you can patch the hole with icing or cover it up with your decorations.
i made a spider man cake once and had fun making royal icing spider webs that i attached to the sides of the cake at an angle to give a 3-d look.
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