My goal for my birthday this year is to make a TARDIS cake that actually looks good, is stable, and tastes good too. My birthday isn't till November, so I have plenty of time to do some trial and error. Because it's an upright rectangle, I'm worried about it being stable and not falling over on itself, so any help with that would be WONDERFUL!!! I was thinking of either just stacking pieces of cake onto each other and "glueing" them together with icing, but what's the best kind of icing for that?

The trickiest part will probably be the icing, because I was thinking of using fondant or maybe rolled buttercream, and there's a lot of little details I want to get right, like the windows, light and so on.


HELP ME???

Oh, here's a picture if you don't know what I'm talking about...

W E L C O M E ! ! ! to CC

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a site to help w/ the details: (look mid-page)

http://www.ironcowprod.com/features/downloads/download2.html


and mother load of info --- a complete recipe/how-to

http://www.spacedoutinc.org/DU-21/tardiscakerecipe.html

(the very first site that comes up if you google "tradis cake" BTW



as for stacking the cake -- just like any multi-tiered cake -- cakeboards and dowels every two layers of cake.

It should be a fairly straight forward stacked cake. Nothing is hanging out to change the center of gravity. I'd use a level to be sure it's level. I'd probably buy blue satinice fondant so I wouldn't have to stress trying to darken white fondant. Also a clay gun for extruding the trim would make life easier.

Congratulations for starting early so you can work out any problems!

This is a cool video of a building cake by Blair Fukumura. You need to watch all four episodes.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blair%20fukumura&search=Search

for stablility, I would not put more than two layers of cake together without dowels and separator plates. I tried stacking 4 layers of 6" round cakes together with no internal supports and boy did that baby have a lean to it

Here is one that someone on the site made. There have been a few I have seen on here. I just thought that you might like to see one.
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=80702
Stephanie

By the way, Love love love DR WHO!!!