OK so someone emailed me this photo and asked if I could do a cake set up like this (the actual construction and set up, not the same design or decorations). I don't know where she got the photo! It came straight to me in an email attachment

Any ideas, tips, explanations, diagrams, tutorials, etc. would be very appreciated! lol

Shantel

There was a cake a while back that was very similar to this and Doug sketched out a diagram on how to stack it. Maybe if you search around you can find the post or you can pm Doug. I know he will know how. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Here it is! I'm not sure who posted this but it of course came from cake central. I saved it so i could print it for my own reference. Again, Sorry I don't know who originally posted it!

ooooooh, his name escapes me now, but I believe it was posted that the ballerina-man turned cake decorator guy did that cake. Ron something?

anyway, I remember someone writing that the second layer from the top was not real cake.

does anyone know who I am talking about?

Ron Ben-Israel. I love his work.

One suggestion is to do the cylinder in styrofoam since I believe that will be the most difficult part to work out. If not, cake board in the middle (narrow section) and carve it to shape.

Wasn't it somebody named Peters? Or was this a Nicholas lodge? All I remember is someone posting that the original person who made this gets very mad when people copy his design. And it was a Man.
Jen...

Ron Ben Israel did the original......and Doug drew up the model you see there to the left................I think!

Ron Ben Isreal?

just pm doug he's the best with these thing..

I'm pretty sure I could help you with the BOTTOM layer. hahahahaha

yes, Ron Ben Israel. LOL, that's who I was thinking.

how does the top cake not slide off the board??
im just picturing gravity pulling the cake down enough that it tears apart around the dowel and slides off the board

Thanks for posting that link aswartz! Great magazine to download!

I suspect if you use foam core and then put a few dowels in the cake into the foam core, it will stay put.

I also think the odd shaped thing isn't really a cake, but syrofoam. How much are you going to charge for this cake> Just curious! I would be too chicken myself! haha!

You can buy foam core at a craft store..you use it instead of a cake board. It is pretty stiff, yet easy to push dowels through..

Thank you ALL for your help! I couldn't have done this thing without you! lol I finally finished it though... of course this is a much smaller version but she only needed 50 servings. Thank goodness for the version using foam! I would've stressed out majorly if it had just been the doweled version! It wasn't too bad at all.... I'm ready to try a bigger one

Very nice cake. You did an excellent job. I love the colors the are so elegant together. Go for the big one

You did a great JOB! I love your take on the original better than the original! Thanks for sharing -- maybe one of these days I'll have enough nerve to try one of my own!

Thanks for sharing.

Suze