Hi

I’m planning a unicorn cake for my granddaughters 5th birthday party.

From my research, these cakes look nicer if they are taller than they are wide. We need 26 serves, so I’m planning a cake that’s 7 inches wide and 8 inches high. Which (according to what I know about cakes) would need to be a double barrel cake with a 6 inch cake board in the middle, and bubble tea straws underneath for support. I have done this before with no problems.

BUT this cake needs to be transported (across Sydney, say a 40 minute drive) and it needs a horn. I’m assuming it will need a centre dowel? And the (heavy looking) fondant horn would need dowel going down more than 4 inches into the cake? So I’m wondering how to get these dowels through the middle cake board.

I have seen mention of sharpening dowels and poking them through, but I think our boards are much thicker in Australia, so I’m sure that wouldn’t work. We have foil covered rigid cardboard ones (which usually go under tiers/cakes) and thicker foiled Masonite ones used as a decorative base.

I’m unsure how to approach this. None of the unicorn cake tutorials I have seen use double barrel cake support, even though they look tall. I’m wondering how they go transporting them with the tall fondant horn in place.

can the horn just be placed after transport?

you can glue a slice of foam on top of the bottom board -- as if it was an extra one inch layer of cake -- and put the cake -- which is on it's own board -- on that -- drill a hole in the middle of the board that separates the tiers -- and sink the dowel all the way down in there into the foam --

and you can either make the foam larger than the cake and decorate it prettily like an extra cake board -- or make it the same size as the cake 7" and ice it like the cake is iced to camouflage it --

and don't cut it off until after delivery -- it works great as a handle to keep it level during delivery -- let it stick up through the box top -- if you are really clever you can attach the horn to that --