A friend would like me to make a first bday cake this coming weekend. She gave me the colors and design and said she had originally wanted a cake she had seen in the spring Pottery Barn magazine, and it had a maypole with ribbons hanging down...but now she lost the photo. So she just said to match the party theme however I want. But I think it would be cool if someone here recognizes the design I'm referring to and can send me a link or photo/scan?

Thanks!

I'm not aware that pottery barn has a magazine. Maybe she saw it in a catalog on top of a kitchen table they were selling! I'm sure any maypole design you come up with will delight her and the child.

This is not pottery barn, but maybe it will help
http://www.geocities.com/magdacakes/Maypole.html

Thanks! I did find a few maypole cakes (a cute one on CC actually) and I just have to figure out how to keep the ribbon smoothly wrapped on the dowel, and how to make them come out nicely from the top.

no idea, but i'll ask some friends to see if maybe someone has it. i'll come back here, if by chance someone does.
GL

Try going to the pottery barn website. Many stores have their catalogs on line now..you might find it there

If you live near a Pottery Barn they often have the catalogs in their store. You could stop in and look!

Sorry this isn't going to help, but I do remember seeing that cake in a pb catalog. I didn't save it and it probably was a year ago.
Unfortunately I can't remember anything about it, except that it was cute.

I looked through my files - a lot of times I'll keep ideas from the Pottery Barn Kids magazines. They have wonderful suggestions and themes for kid's parties (even if their products cost a fortune!).

I guess I didn't save the maypole cake. You might try to contact PBK's customer service at 800-993-4923. They may be able to email you a copy of the picture. Wouldn't hurt to try, at least!

Good luck!
Bec

It's on page 50 of the Pottery Barn Kids early spring 2007 catalog. It's cute, but I've seen a lot better. (I can't scan it, broken printer...)
I know that alot of people don't like Sandra Lee, but she did a cute one. She just hot glued ribbon to one end of a dowel, wrapped it around the dowel and stuck it into the center of the cake. She then glued like 5 more ribbons to the end of the dowel and fanned them out around the cake. To hide the glued end she topped it with a little grouping of silk flowers. I think she also had some flowers tucked in among cupcakes on top of her cake. I wasn't impressed with the cupcakes, but the rest of it was cute! Hope this helps you!!

Thanks all!

For now I plan to copy the theme of their party plates onto the cake...and I bought 4-5 small ribbon spools the color of the party and am going to try to make a maypole...I think the lady said a bee was on the top of the pottery barn one so I will do a ladybug to match the party I think.

Hi,

I did a maypole cake not to long ago, and I wanted to do a couple of things differently but 1) I didn't have the experience to do it and 2) didn't have the patience to let the fondant dry.

I wanted to stand the maypole up onto the cake instead of laying it down, and I also wanted to wrap the ribbons around the pole into one of the prettier designs that the kids make. I came to the conclusion that unless I had 16 miniature kids dance around the fondant pole and actually paying attention to what they were doing, that it just wasn't going to happen. I imagine that it could be done, but I have no idea how. Let me rephrase that; I know how it can be done, but I don't know how to explain it, and I would be scared of the ribbons breaking and you would have to start all over again. For example, the basketweave is a simple over/under dance (in theory, it is simple) and leaves a gorgeous design on the pole; however, unless you have 16 hands that can move the 2 different colored ribbons at the same time, it won't leave the pretty design on the pole. Unless , you are very good at patching fondant, and then you could just lay out pieces on the pole (in the basketweave design) and then have the ribbons hanging down off of the pole under where the ribbon design stops. That would probably work. If that made any sense at all, then I hope it works for you and your idea. If it didn't make sense, please let me know, and I might have more coffee in my system and I might be able to explain it better.

Good luck with the Maypole cake and could you please let me know if you figure anything out with the designs. It would always be good to know for next year's maypole dance.[/img]

is it on the regular PB of PBkids?

OK, I emailed PBK and they sent me the link:

http://www.potterybarnkids.com/content/party/cake/stylehouse.cfm?flash=on

Looks like just a basic round cake with a dowel & some ribbon. I love the idea of the cake decorating party - I did that for my kids one year & they loved it!

Hope this helps!
Bec