That's Tall! How Many Layers?
Decorating By diamondsonblackvelvet13 Updated 23 Jul 2008 , 4:07pm by gateaux
Hey everyone! I hope this post finds you all having a wonderful summer. I have a question about height, my dd's Bday is this Monday. We are having her party Sunday. She has decided she wants THIS haunted house:
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=917663
How on earth does one make a cake that tall??? How many layers would you use to make it square? I am looking at needing roughly 30 svgs. I was thinking of making the bottom layer a dummy. Would that work y'all? I am SO excited about this.
Thank you all for your help!
My first thought was a dummy layer too. your dd has cool taste for a bday cake. 
Oh dear. lol. Maybe I should clarify. I keep thinking that everyone can read my mind. How would I go about making a "cube" cake like the bottom tier? So it looks likes an actual "house?" I don't want it to appear squished ya know? Proportional! There's the word I was looking for!
I think if you are going to use the scooby doo cast, or toys you need to have them first and go from there as far as height.
I did a building this weekend. I was not worried about scale and I was doing fondant superhero's. So It was all over the place.
I just think once you have the toys/people then you can figure out the scale. I think styrofoam for sure looks like 6-8 inch for sure for the toys to look to scale the columns are probably wedding cake type.
2nd and 3rd layers are probably 4inchs.
I wonder what WYB this is??
Good Luck.
I am guessing 10" 3 layers--8" one layer--6" 2 layers
Styrofoam would work for some of the layers if you don't need that much cake- Looks like a fun cake to do!
Maybe you could contact the person who posted it.
The other thing, is i would do a mock up of it in styrofoam. do this just so i can get the feel for how it will look and work out. But not the cake dummy foam.
That way you will have the sizing correct and you can use them to make a pattern for the cake.
Good points all. I did try looking it up in the WYB. But I couldn't find anything, unless I was looking wrong. I'll try pm'ing the poster and ask. Thanks for all your help!!
To me, it looks like each layer is 8" tall. The top tiers look shorter because of the porch roof hiding the bottom layer of each tier. I would definitely do 3 -2" tall cakes (torted and filled) or just 2-3" cakes (torted and filled).
So probably a dummy cake would work out better for the bottom tier.
Looks like fun!
I just look up the figures I ordered. They won't be here till Friday. It says that each is apprx 5" tall except Scooby of course. Should be funnnnnnnn...I am excited about it.
Oh hey! How would I go about make the roof of the bottom and second tiers?
Hey everyone! I hope this post finds you all having a wonderful summer. I have a question about height, my dd's Bday is this Monday. We are having her party Sunday. She has decided she wants THIS haunted house:
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=917663
How on earth does one make a cake that tall??? How many layers would you use to make it square? I am looking at needing roughly 30 svgs. I was thinking of making the bottom layer a dummy. Would that work y'all? I am SO excited about this.
Thank you all for your help!
It's in the Wilton Yearbook 2005. I have copy but it's in storage.
I've found the cake in the 2005 yearbook. I can scan the instructions if you want. It serves 88 done in all cake!!!
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