Ok, cakers! I have a question for you. I got a order for a ghetto cake. I am like stumped. I know what ghetto is, I just dont know how to interpret it in cake. I know It needs to be a two tier, 6, and 10 inch tiers. I know I want to have a gold chain, other than that, I have no clue. Help me out with some ideas, Pretty please!!!

Graffiti?

You might want to check out the images on this site:

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Spinners/rims, grillz, weaves/extentions, Baby Phat, long finger nails, gold chains with Cadillac symbol/crosses/marijuana leaf pendants, Escalades, gold trim, these stupid "vents" people stick on the sides of their cars: http://www.cartype.com/pics/4549/full/vent_fake_1.jpg

I could go on and on. You should see where I grew up.

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I'm so jealous! I wish someone would ask me to make a ghetto cake.

I so want to see this cake after you're done...please post pics!!!

Escalades per say are not ghetto, they just show the mentality. For example: I live at home with my mom and have 5 kids with 3 different women, don't pay child support, or give my mom rent money for that matter, but I'm stunning in my 24" rimmed, Escalade! Yeh, Escalades can be ghetto...by showing a ghetto state of mind. I for one grew up in the ghetto, and I love the ghetto and some ghetto morals are a lot more upstanding then general socities.

Anyway, you may want to ask what the client means by ghetto. you don't want to accidentally offend. But I love the idea of a "ghetto" cake.

You know, ghetto is an old Italian word whose original meaning was simply "Neighborhood" You can go to Italy and find ghetto's there, but they still mean the old meaning. Just thought I would throw this out there..lol

Graffiti is the first thing that came to mind mind too lol...Trust me seen plenty of it

And just so you know, I see more white boy preppies and rednecks rolling in Escalades (or any other super size SUV) with the 20" spinning rims, booming systems, and the rest that was descibed for a "ghetto" looking Escalade!

And just so you know, I see more white boy preppies and rednecks rolling in Escalades (or any other super size SUV) with the 20" spinning rims, booming systems, and the rest that was descibed for a "ghetto" looking Escalade!

How about make it ghetto fabulous? Add some diamonds and make it look expensive.

The areas near my house (I live in Miami) you should see how some of the cars look...they have paintings on them some have Blues Clues, Betty Boop, Spongebob, or some as daring as Marijuana plants painted on the hood (or even all around the car) The rims are the same color as the car and so is the interior.

OP I hope you got some good ideas from these posts lol!!!

KKC, in the neighborhood I grew up in (SE Houston), there was this phenomenon where people with trucks (mostly Chevy Silverados) would have a mural of the truck airbrushed onto the tailgate of the truck. And not only that, they would have the truck in different settings. Sometimes the truck would be sitting next to a serene waterfall, other times it would an action shot with the truck involved in some kind of race or high speed chase...

My all-time favorite, though, was one of my neighbors who had Jesus hanging out of the driver's side window of the truck with a gat.

I've always wanted to do a photo essay featuring these trucks. They are truly ghetto fabulous!

(You could always do a cake with a mural of the cake airbrushed on the side... I am having way too much fun with this!)

It's a very neat idea for a cake. I agree with asking the customer what they have in mind or who they have in mind and what that person might like. If you start guessing about ghetto images and ideas, it MIGHT offend someone or become more "cultural" than ghetto, ya know??? If this person wears too many gold chains and sports a fake gold tooth with a car painted like a box of cereal, i'd go in that direction.

Thanks for all the replies. I did get some ideas for the cake from the customer, but I basically have free reign on the design. I just cant for the life of me think of anything. I have hit road block! She said bling, bling, money signs, etc.

Whatever decorations you decide to do on it, I think red brick on the sides would be nice as a backdrop.

I know the client has given you 100% creative license, but I would come up with a list of ideas and run them past the client -just to be sure that nothing was offensive. You wouldn't want to run into them not wanting to pay because your idea of ghetto wasn't their idea of ghetto.

If I was doing a ghetto cake, I would start by watching some of MTV's dating shows.

If I was doing a ghetto cake, I would start by watching some of MTV's dating shows.

OK, so here is what I was thinking, tell me if I am way off base here. I was thinking of making the cake look like a brick wall, and then writing in graffiti (j-Rank is tweny-free) the customer wated the cake to say this, and then I was thinking of making big thick chain out of gumpaste and painting it gold and draping it over the cake with like a big emblem sign on it. (havent figured that out yet.) Then I was thinking of making some gold dollar signs and putting them on the cake in different places. then Splatter different colrs of paint(not really paint, but made to look like paint) on it,(this would be before any decorations are put on it.) I was also thinking of making a brass knuckle out of gumpaste and putting it on the cake. and the topper would be a boom box. K, let me know what u thik. Whatever I decide to do, I am going to sketch it up and e-mail it to the customer. She said she wants it like super ghetto.