Life-Sized Birthday Cake

Life-Sized Cake Recipe and Step by Step Assembly Instructions

Ingredients:
12-18 cakes (13 x 9 inches each)
8 - 12 pounds powdered sugar
3 pounds of butter
cake decorating tubes

The first thing to do is find out how tall your subject is, and in the case of someone very tall, you may need to measure your table to be assured that it is long enough to display the final product.

Really creative types may pooh-pooh the idea of planning out the design and number of cakes required, but it is well worth the extra time. Remember, with cake there is no erasing. And it would be a pity to find out on party day, while arranging cakes that you are a head short.

Modeling sessions where you sketch out a variety of full body poses of your subject are helpful, unless, of course, it is a surprise. Once you have a finalized design, it needs to be incorporated into a grid of the 13 x 9 proportion of the individual cakes. Unfortunately there is no graph paper in that proportion, so you make some in Excel. But see how it will facilitate the cutting?

Start baking cakes several days in advance and put them in the freezer.
Cover the table with a large piece of cardboard and cover that with aluminum foil.

Lay out the cakes (its ok if they're still frozen)
(Look at that Sparky - he's so cute!)

Study your diagram

Start cutting

The diagram makes it so simple.

Naturally, a LOT of frosting will be required. But it can be so much fun!

Clean up is not quite as much fun.

The fine details require good nerves and a creative mind.


The final product is magnificent!