I'm fortunate enough to have a 12 year old step daughter who I have a wonderful relationship with. She is OBSESSED with pandas and her birthday is in February. So... she's so sweetly (with big doe eyes) asked for a panda cake...not a flat sheet cake carved. A panda sitting upright, sculpted and covered just like her favorite show... ACE OF CAKES.
I'm no Duff, or Jeff or any of those artists. BUT I think I may be capable.
Any suggestions or tips? How many layers of cake per cake board, center supports??? I really need the help of anyone who will offer it. TG I have til February 
I usually prefer to carve my own shapes. Typically I do 2-4 layers of cake depending on the design. So, figure you'll need a board under the head, and then one more somewhere in the middle of the body. That middle board also helps to stabalize the whole cake when you drive a dowel(or 2) down thru all the layers into the base. It's a little easier to do a rice krispie head but it's possible to do cake too...a bear is an easier shape to do a cake head. The teddy bear wrapped in a blankie in my photos has a cake head if you want to see an example.
How about using the sit up bear mould? Does it have to be a certain size/servings?
That's what I was thinking. That'd be smooth sailing.
Here is a great tutorial for you! I am sure you can turn this monkey into a panda bear!
http://www.cakedalaska.com/Caked_Alaska/Monkey_see.html
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