My daughter's nephew turned 5 and wanted a Sponge Bob cake. The cake stood 26" tall - without his party hat. It was a white chocolate cake with a whopped ganache filling. The only challenge was getting the cake up my very bumpy driveway, but my wonderful husband built an ingenious, external support system to get it there safely! http://paintedacrescakes.blogspot.com/2011/02/building-sponge-bob.html The instructions for building him.