I've been asked to do a horse cake, any ideas? They like the horse cookies, atop a cake, I was thinking something like a sheet cake or 1/2 sheet with a round cake on top of it, and putting a fence around it with the horse cookies inside the fence on top of the round cake. How would I make a fence? Anybody seen anything like this, or have any other ideas?

Can you do a horse shoe? Wilton make a horseshoe shaped pan...that would be easy.

I think you have a great idea. I bet you could do the fence out of royal icing.

Ok, I hadn't thought of royal icing, I was thinking that I would have to use fondant, and that's not my favorite thing to use. The cake needs to feed 35-50 people so I don't think the horseshoe pan would work, They are wanting horse cookie on the cake. How would I get the royal icing to go around a round cake with out breaking?

I would pipe out onto the side of a cake pan (with wax paper inbetween) and let it dry there. I haven't worked with royal that much so sort of shooting from the hip here, but I think that's the way I would do it.

Another great idea. Thanks, this is an awesome site. I'm just getting started in this business and I'm glad I found this early on. So if I do an 8 inch round pan on top of 1/2 sheet cake, then should I use a 6 inch pan to pipe the royal around so that it will be smaller than the top of the cake, and then put the horse cookies on sucker sticks in the middle to make it look like they were grazing, maybe pipe some grass in there? I'm still brainstorming!

Sounds good to me. But Mistygaildunn, I saw your pictures. You do beautiful work and particularly, you do great fondant work. So, why don't you do the fence and the horses out of fondant just in a scene like you described. That would be too cute and it would probably be more stable and easier to work with than cookies and royal. You could still do the cake in BC.

Just an idea.

Well, my husband actually did the fondant on that cake and we were almost at each others neck by the time it was over. And you can rest assured all 3 levels of that had a back (bad) side. He said he wasn't fooling with it anymore. He's a drywall finisher, so he knows how to get that stuff good and smooth.

Wow, that is so cool that he did that and so well from knowing the drywall. Talk about a multitasker. I didn't realize that you would apply the same skills, but it makes sense.

Anyway, I see your reservations for using fondant.
Royal and cookies are a great idea!

Thanks again, gdixoncakes, do you have any ideas on my other cake, pastor appreciation/birthday cake?

Could you do a bct? Maybe one of your church if it's a pretty church. Or since pastors are supposed to "enlighten", then maybe something with a sunrise (again, I'm thinking bct because it's easy...time consuming but easy).

If I come up with anything else, I'll let you know.

I haven't used the BCT yet. I'm a little hesitant, but then I always am until after it's over and the customer is satisfied. But this one is a freebie since it's for my pastor. We have a small church that and I can't think of a good view of it to do a transfer in. What if I did a picture of the pastor on it by BCT instead of an edible image? I don't know yet.

You should try a bct. It is very easy and very fun. I say "time consuming" but then what about cake decorating isn't? The thing is though for your first one it would be best to go off a simple line drawing. I'm a graphic designer and that's how I did the cake for my father-in-law. I changed my children's and niece's pictures into drawings in Photoshop. I do it for a living so if you'd like any help changing actual photographs into line drawings, just let me know.

Like I said though, I would keep it simple for your first one. If you do a google search of "coloring pages," you can find a bunch.

Anyway, good luck!

Thank you so much for your help, when my husband came home, he suggested doing a fence with pretzels, taking the rods, as the pole, and by hand with a tiny drill bit, make holes for the smaller pretzel sticks and attach them with brown icing. I could then put in toy horses or try to figure out how to mold one, but I'd probably go with toys if I decided to go that route. I think I'm sold on the stained glass cross. I really like it.

There is a nice horse cake done by Jackie on this site.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&member_id=6&cat=0&pos=10

I saw that one and it's really cool, but I'm trying to figure out more ideas on a fence and how to make edible horses, my goal is always to make everything that can be-edible. LOL!

I don't know if this has been said, but in one of the wilton calsses (2 maybe) they have a colour flow pattern for a picket fence. I can email it to you, if you need it.
Or, (this may have also been said already) you can use pretzels to make it look like wood....
I love your idea with the horse cookies - it'll be an awesome cake !!

okay, I just read that your husband suggested pretzels - smart guy - but I wouldn't drill them, attach them with brown royal maybe...

Thanks for the fence, I just posted the picture, I actually took one of those nutcracker tools and put holes in the pretzel rods, and then once it came down to it, I decided to take the easy way out and use a plastic fence that the customer brought me. I've came down with a flumonia, you know a mixture of the flu and pneumonia, LOL I think, so I'm feeling pretty rough and was kinda ready to get this over, since I was up til 4:30 this morning doing the horse cookies that went with this order, and another batch that goes with my pastor appreciation order. 1 down, 1 to go. Thanks for your advice.