Anyone made a 14 inch square cake?

[~Hestia~]

As title suggests I am going to be making a 14 inch cake, well two actually, one will be cut into a 4 which will sit on top of the square.

Am just going to use boxed cake mixes. Can anyone suggest how many to make one 14 inch square?

[Jaycee]

I haven't but that sounds cool! What themed cake are you doing?

[~Hestia~]

Ha ha thanks It's a construction theme. Will have way more cake than I actually need but has to fit all the vehicles on it! Will have an excavator digging out the little cut out in the 4, a dump truck going down a ramp off the 4 onto the base, a crane maybe holding a sign or something, a grader smoothing out the 4 and a front end loader as well as some fencing...still need to nut it out!

[~Hestia~]

I might just spread icing on the cake board so will only need to make one cake...decisions!

[Jaycee]

This I've gotta see! My boys are construction mad and have both requested this exact kind of cake for their next birthdays, do you have a pic of it or is it a make it up as you go along kinda thing?

[~Hestia~]

I'm sure I'll have pics on FB

I trawled through all the different ones when I googled...then picked out aspects I liked and thought I would be able to manage and have come up with my own design. I think the beauty of this kind of cake is that you really can't go wrong! The trucks will be digging and bulldozing the cake so it's meant to be a bit messy, which is great for me!

[Jaycee]

Sounds awesome, can't wait to see it

[Tinks]

The cake sounds amazing.

WRT the amount of packet cake you'll need. I'd say 4 and a half packets

[~Hestia~]

Thanks Tinks. Will give it a trial run on the weekend.

'Packet cake' was the word I was looking for earlier lol, had a mental blank!

[black_rose]

I did a construction for ds last year our local lolly shop had chocolate rocks and edible Lego so it was fun to make rock piles and little walls.

[~Hestia~]

Wow that sounds awesome BR, have never seen edible lego.