I have an order for a 50th Anniversary cake in 2 weeks. The couple had no wedding cake when they married so their children would like for the cake to look like a cake from 1960.

I have tried searching CC but am not really having any luck.

I have also googled "1960s wedding cake" every way I can think of but only get a few results and most of those photos are so blurry it's nearly impossible to make out the cake.

Would anyone possibly have (good) photos of a real cake from this period that you'd be willing to share?

TIA

cakebaker1957
Thanks for your reply.

The only requests the children have are that each tier be seperated and that the cake look like a cake would have in 1960. I have a Wilton book that shows how to use tips from my birth year - 1972 (a supercool birthday present from my Mom) but there are only a few cake pics in it. And those are party cakes.

I'm thinking ALOT of borders and stringwork but I was kind of hoping to see some real 1960 cakes just to be sure.

It IS really hard to find pics of a 60's cake! The ones I did find seemed to be lots of flowers, stringwork and lots of space between each tier. I did find a couple pics but not very good detail and I am not sure exactly when the second one is from...

Thanks chelseak. The B&W pic you posted is exactly the set-up I'll be doing. And if I squint REAL hard it looks like it has LOTS of border work.

(BTW-Is that Judy Garland?)

ETA:
chelseak... I can't thank you enough! After seeing the file name of the B&W pic, I googled "wedding cake" with the years 1959, 1961... through 1964 and found some HUGE!!! (up to 700 pixels) pics. I can see every speck of icing on the cakes.

YOU ARE A LIFESAVER!

No problem! And yes, it is Judy Garland Glad I could help, have fun with the cake!

If you want a wedding cake to look like from the 1960s then you need to do old school techniques like stringwork, buttercream roses, and buttercream sides, no fondant

Thanks everyone for all your help.

Post a picture when it's done!

Here it is... not quite what I was envisioning but I tried to do the old fashioned look and I was NOT good at it. God bless all those cake pioneers who could decorate an entire cake with a star tip... they're better women (and men) than me!

oh... and the reason for the 2 different types of pillars is when I went to set up, the standard pillars WOULD NOT snap onto the plate!!!! They were all Wilton brand plates and pillars. I tried for 20 minutes. Finally got the spiked pillars to work.

Has anyone else ever had that happen?

Wow! You did a great job! Authentic IMO, and well done. You should be VERY proud =)

Wow! You did a great job Thanks for posting the picture!

You did a fantastic job!!! Looks great!