I am going to try my first sculpted cake and I need to know what receipe is good for this? I will be trying to do a car for my DH's birthday.

Thanks

Amy

This one works quite nicely for carving:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1972-Durable-Cake-for-3D-and-Wedding-Cakes.html

If you make scratch cakes, a good pound cake recipe is wonderful for carving. Paula Deen has a couple posted on the Food Network site that taste terrific. I just use different pans and alter the flavorings and baking times for my taste.

I use this recipe exclusively for all my cakes. It's moist and yummy tasting, yet dense and firm enough for carving, with minimal crumbs. I bake @ 325* using flower nails and homemade baking strips for larger pans.

1 box cake mix (any flavor)
1 box pudding mix (4 serving size - flavor same or complimentary to cake flavor)
1/2 c. oil
1/2 c. water or milk
1 c. sour cream
4 eggs

I need a good chocolate Or German chocolate cake recipe for a sculpted cake. Any ideas?????

Never mind I got my answer on one post before me. Thanks

How big is your cake? If the sculpture is small (see most of the dogs in my photos) you can get by with regular cake, but it's definitely easier to use sturdy, dense cake. I carved a free-standing doll cake with the chai tea cake recipe here on CC and it did a good job. I like using the pound cake recipes from The Cake Mix Doctor a lot.

Deanna

On Thursday, I completed an 18 inch tall (=/-) Yoda cake. I found that the intricate carving and stability of the face and ears was done better out of Rice Krispies... I had to cover the face and ears in Pastillage over Royal Icing because Yoda's jaw kept "dropping". The actual cake was WASC behind Yoda in the form of the swamp, etc. Theme cakes sometimes need the extra support of the RK... especially when long ears (protrusions of any sort with dowels) are part of it.

my friend and i just did a corvette car cake this weekend and used that "durable cake" recipe. it was very moist and held up very well to the carving. we used 3 9X13 cakes. stacked 2 of them and halved the third cake making the car 9X19. we also used a six inch square for the top of the roof. it took BOTH of us about 10 hours to carve, frost, cover and put accents. I would have to either get paid a lot of money for it or love someone a lot to do it again. It was a fun experience though. Good luck on your car. Cant wait to see the finished product.