omg, i got my first order today! needless to say, i am exicted, nervous, scared, and everything else. the customer wants a sculpted cake in the shape of crossed hockey sticks. i've never done a sculpted cake before.
he wants it to feed 6+ people, vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. i was thinking of something like this: 
any pointers?
thanks bunches!
Use a 1/4 or 1/2 sheet cake and make a template big enough to cut the cake with(or you can freehand it) and you can cut the puck from the scraps....dont they sometimes have tape on the handle of the sticks because that part and the puck can be chocolate with black color in it and the rest can just be vanilla frosting.
I'm not sure if this helps, but I know here in Buffalo you can purchase Sabres pucks made entirely of chocolate at the grocery store. I'm not sure but maybe you can find something like that near you....
http://www.ebulkcandy.com/sys-tmpl/chocolatehockeypucks/
cut a recipe in half...bake in an 8" square pan (or round if you dont have a square) and cut into slices... connect the slices to make a stick, carve where you need to. reserve a piece to cut out a puck with a circle cookie cutter. frost the puck with chocolate icing tinted black. use a long peice of cardboard covered with foil or wrapping paper/contact paper (you could draw on paper to resemble the hockey rink floor). ice the hocky stick with grey icing and add a couple of color stipes. use a 4" dense paint roller (melvira method) or a viva paper towel to smooth out your icing. or you could use fondant to cover the cake...if you use grey fondant, and then dust with super pearl dust, it will have a metalic color (are sticks metal ? i dont have a clue LOL)
they may have to settle for more than six servings, as it would be difficult to carve long thin pieces of cake to reach the size they want. just based on a cake mix alone...the box says large servings or 24 cupcakes.
how much are you charging?
CONGRATS! My first thought was the sheet cake idea that da757deevalibra mentioned above. I watch a lot of hockey and most sticks are black. HTH
well, he just needs it to feed at least 6 people. he said he is flexible on the size. i am hoping he will agree to either a round or square cake with that design drawn on top. i have a feeling that design sculpted would be both difficult and more prone to falling apart since it's so thin.
i noticed that a lot of hockey sticks are black with white tape at the top and the bottom. i was thinking maybe i can use fondant cut into strips or lines of white frosting made to look like tape.
i was thinking to charge $30.
if you are only going to charge $30, then definately no scultpted cake! too much time involved. i would suggest a neat and well done 6" round cake with a frozen buttercream transfer instead. figuring the cost of ingredients, plus your time - at least 2 or 3 hours including baking, shopping etc...dont overdo it for a low price.
My husband actually plays hockey and none of his sticks are black. They are all natural to medium wood colors. He says that black is not real popular, but the wood and assorted colors (like red, blue, etc) are. Tape for the sticks comes in both black and white, so you could technically use either if you didn't to do black sticks. Most people put the white tape at the top of the stick to make a grip area and the majority of people use black at the bottom where the puck will be contacting the stick.
I hope that helps, but please don't anyone think I am trying to be a smarty pants or arguing, I am only trying to help bc HOCKEY people would notice IMMEDIATELY.
My husband actually plays hockey and none of his sticks are black. They are all natural to medium wood colors. He says that black is not real popular, but the wood and assorted colors (like red, blue, etc) are. Tape for the sticks comes in both black and white, so you could technically use either if you didn't to do black sticks. Most people put the white tape at the top of the stick to make a grip area and the majority of people use black at the bottom where the puck will be contacting the stick.
I hope that helps, but please don't anyone think I am trying to be a smarty pants or arguing, I am only trying to help bc HOCKEY people would notice IMMEDIATELY.
SMARTY PANTS! (just kidding! thats why people ask questions, so they can get the good answers! ) good ideas- 
dream customer! i told him i was thinking about his cake and he told me to do whatever i think is best! so i decided that a round cake with a fbct would probably work best! 
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