How to Make Mountains on a Cake

Whether you're baking a mountain biking cake for your nine-year-old son or a skiing-themed cake for your brother, certain cake designs require mountains. Using large sections of another party-cake works for a single large mountain, but multiple mountains or a mountain range require more strategy. Artificial structures, like cardboard and tin-foil, make eating the cake awkward and cumbersome. Instead, use appropriately dense cake types for the base of your cake-top mountain range.

Things You'll Need

  • Sharp knife
  • Thick frosting
  • Whole poundcake
  • Toothpicks
  • Spoon

Instructions

  1. Remove the pound cake from its foil and cut a triangle measuring approximately half-an-inch smaller than you envision your final mountain. Pound cake is denser and crumbles less easily than standard party cakes, making it suitable for building mountains of any size.

  2. Spread a single layer of thick frosting on the mountainous portion of the party cake before applying the mountains. The frosting helps the pound-cake mountain stick to the party-cake surface.

  3. Spread a thin layer of frosting on the connecting side of the pound-cake mountain and place it directly onto the recently frosted portion of the party-cake. Connect the two pieces while the frosting is still wet for maximum adhesion.

  4. Drive a toothpick through the top of the pound-cake mountain and beneath the party-cake surface to prevent movement while frosting.

  5. Spread frosting over the pound-cake mountain sides and onto the party-cake surface with a spoon. A spoon's shape rounds the inclines and edges of a pound-cake mountain for a natural-appearing merger between the two cakes.

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