I have kind of a weird shower cake to make and am stumped. It's a round (probably 9 in) for a wedding shower. The theme is "winter nature"??? The centerpieces are silver trees that look kind of icy? Does that make sense. They want the cake to match, maybe with branches/white flowers on the sides. She just said no colored flowers, something elegant. Any ideas? It's going to be buttercream but I can use fondant accents.

I was thinking something with the large sanding sugar but am not sure.

Here are some icy fir trees that might work for the top of the cake:

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1550497

Some of the Christmas cakes in the gallery have very interesting side details which you might be able to incorporate into your design.

HTH

Edited to correct link.

These are wedding cakes, but hopefully they can help!




found at http://www.cakella.com





found at http://www.kellyoshiroevents.com





found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/9438541@N04/1363478347/

i get cold just looking at those pictures... brrr

Wow these cakes are beautiful. Does the last one have real ice cubes surrounding it? JanH your link goes to Elmo pictures?

I've always liked the blue cake prterrell posted.

Here's something

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b4mZSnRHUAw/SsIURLU781I/AAAAAAAABxs/YWAcU2amNaU/s320/cake+15.jpg

http://img-srv.everestwebworks.com/w2/Pictures/My%20Files/1060395.1/Cake%2011%20Rockwell.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VJJFFnM-ZNg/STghmnwECTI/AAAAAAAAAmk/yN74nS1RdMU/s400/flakecake.jpg

I think it would be pretty & elegant to apply the sparkling sugar & use RI snowflakes. Just make sure you make extras for breakage if you go that route.