Hi ladies...
I have two cakes to do this weekend for men in the same family, one is turning 50, the other 18. So far mom/wife has given me no help in ideas for decorating these cakes, only says they should be 'masculine' and not too many flowers!! For some reason I am just drawing a blank here. Anyone have any ideas or picture I could look at for some inspiration??
Thanks so much!!
Gretel
PS, both cakes will be 11x15 sheets.
You could do like a grooms cake; mostly chocolate, with chocolate dipped strawberries and such.
1 each of:
chocolate mud cake
chocolate devils food cake
german chocolate cake
pan of chocolate brownies
pan of chocolate chip cookies (the big chunk kind)
a big bowl of dark chocolate frosting
a big bowl of chocolate moosse.
a big bowl of mocha frosting
oh and add dark chocolate chips to the batter of the cakes and brownies
and then I can use them all to make my all chocolate version of a dagwood sandwich!
hmmm, my previous post sparked an idea:
there's lots of really great hamburger/cheeseburger cakes in the galleries.
such as this one: burger cake
could make a really big one or
could using cut/carved sheet cakes my a big hogie/submarine/hero style sandwich cake
I just did a cake for 2 guys that I work with. The pic is in the gallery under mens bday cakes. Its chocolate with b/c and a cool design (I thought).
hmmm, my previous post sparked an idea:
there's lots of really great hamburger/cheeseburger cakes in the galleries.
such as this one: burger cake
could make a really big one or
could using cut/carved sheet cakes my a big hogie/submarine/hero style sandwich cake
But make sure it's CHOCOLATE!!!!!!
(Man I GOTTA get me a chocolate bar!!!!!!)
I just finished doing a birthday cake for a college student at my husband's work today. I've been racking my brain for a couple of weeks trying to pick out a design, color scheme, etc...because he, too, left it all up to me--except that he wanted a yellow cake without fondant (hahaha...he's been eating too many fondant practice cakes lately) Anyway, I ended up doing a hexagonal green basketweave cake (ribbed vertical stripes and flat horizontal stripes) with a french plume border on the base and tip 225 drop flowers for the top border. On top of the cake I put french blue lilacs and used the letter presses to make the impression "Happy Birthday Isaiah" in the cake. I then added some crushed cake sparkles to the top.
For the green on the cake (everything except the lilac clusters) I used a mixture of leaf green and kelly green gel pastes. I used a 21 to make the general shape of each lilac and then filled in the top with a bunch of 133 stars/drop flowers until they looked right. I used cornflower blue icing and royal blue icing kind of swirled together in my bag to get the color effect I wanted on the lilacs. I tried spatula striping first, but it didn't look right. Also, I think any small star or drop flower tip with quite a few cuts would probably work for the lilacs, but I used a 133 because someone else--on this site, I think--suggested that tip for quick lilacs, so I used it and was very happy with the results. Oh, and in case you aren't familiar with the French plume border (it's from an old book a friend let me borrow), it's a star (pipe the star where it's halfway on the board and halfway on the cake--sort of leaning against the cake--hope that's a good visual for you) with a line piped over it in the shape of a frown with inward curls at the ends and then you add a leaf at each side---do this a bunch of times to make a border----very pretty effect, especially all one color.
I hope this helps you a little bit. The cake really did look very classy and unisex--I have to say I surprised myself a bit, too. I will try to load a picture of the cake in my photos, but I'm not sure I'll be able to tonight with my slooooowwww internet connection. Good luck with your cakes!
I just finished doing a birthday cake for a college student at my husband's work today. I've been racking my brain for a couple of weeks trying to pick out a design, color scheme, etc...because he, too, left it all up to me--except that he wanted a yellow cake without fondant (hahaha...he's been eating too many fondant practice cakes lately) Anyway, I ended up doing a hexagonal green basketweave cake (ribbed vertical stripes and flat horizontal stripes) with a french plume border on the base and tip 225 drop flowers for the top border. On top of the cake I put french blue lilacs and used the letter presses to make the impression "Happy Birthday Isaiah" in the cake. I then added some crushed cake sparkles to the top.
For the green on the cake (everything except the lilac clusters) I used a mixture of leaf green and kelly green gel pastes. I used a 21 to make the general shape of each lilac and then filled in the top with a bunch of 133 stars/drop flowers until they looked right. I used cornflower blue icing and royal blue icing kind of swirled together in my bag to get the color effect I wanted on the lilacs. I tried spatula striping first, but it didn't look right. Also, I think any small star or drop flower tip with quite a few cuts would probably work for the lilacs, but I used a 133 because someone else--on this site, I think--suggested that tip for quick lilacs, so I used it and was very happy with the results. Oh, and in case you aren't familiar with the French plume border (it's from an old book a friend let me borrow), it's a star (pipe the star where it's halfway on the board and halfway on the cake--sort of leaning against the cake--hope that's a good visual for you) with a line piped over it in the shape of a frown with inward curls at the ends and then you add a leaf at each side---do this a bunch of times to make a border----very pretty effect, especially all one color.
I hope this helps you a little bit. The cake really did look very classy and unisex--I have to say I surprised myself a bit, too. I will try to load a picture of the cake in my photos, but I'm not sure I'll be able to tonight with my slooooowwww internet connection. Good luck with your cakes!
I just finished doing a birthday cake for a college student at my husband's work today. I've been racking my brain for a couple of weeks trying to pick out a design, color scheme, etc...because he, too, left it all up to me--except that he wanted a yellow cake without fondant (hahaha...he's been eating too many fondant practice cakes lately) Anyway, I ended up doing a hexagonal green basketweave cake (ribbed vertical stripes and flat horizontal stripes) with a french plume border on the base and tip 225 drop flowers for the top border. On top of the cake I put french blue lilacs and used the letter presses to make the impression "Happy Birthday Isaiah" in the cake. I then added some crushed cake sparkles to the top.
For the green on the cake (everything except the lilac clusters) I used a mixture of leaf green and kelly green gel pastes. I used a 21 to make the general shape of each lilac and then filled in the top with a bunch of 133 stars/drop flowers until they looked right. I used cornflower blue icing and royal blue icing kind of swirled together in my bag to get the color effect I wanted on the lilacs. I tried spatula striping first, but it didn't look right. Also, I think any small star or drop flower tip with quite a few cuts would probably work for the lilacs, but I used a 133 because someone else--on this site, I think--suggested that tip for quick lilacs, so I used it and was very happy with the results. Oh, and in case you aren't familiar with the French plume border (it's from an old book a friend let me borrow), it's a star (pipe the star where it's halfway on the board and halfway on the cake--sort of leaning against the cake--hope that's a good visual for you) with a line piped over it in the shape of a frown with inward curls at the ends and then you add a leaf at each side---do this a bunch of times to make a border----very pretty effect, especially all one color.
I hope this helps you a little bit. The cake really did look very classy and unisex--I have to say I surprised myself a bit, too. I will try to load a picture of the cake in my photos, but I'm not sure I'll be able to tonight with my slooooowwww internet connection. Good luck with your cakes!
I just finished doing a birthday cake for a college student at my husband's work today. I've been racking my brain for a couple of weeks trying to pick out a design, color scheme, etc...because he, too, left it all up to me--except that he wanted a yellow cake without fondant (hahaha...he's been eating too many fondant practice cakes lately) Anyway, I ended up doing a hexagonal green basketweave cake (ribbed vertical stripes and flat horizontal stripes) with a french plume border on the base and tip 225 drop flowers for the top border. On top of the cake I put french blue lilacs and used the letter presses to make the impression "Happy Birthday Isaiah" in the cake. I then added some crushed cake sparkles to the top.
For the green on the cake (everything except the lilac clusters) I used a mixture of leaf green and kelly green gel pastes. I used a 21 to make the general shape of each lilac and then filled in the top with a bunch of 133 stars/drop flowers until they looked right. I used cornflower blue icing and royal blue icing kind of swirled together in my bag to get the color effect I wanted on the lilacs. I tried spatula striping first, but it didn't look right. Also, I think any small star or drop flower tip with quite a few cuts would probably work for the lilacs, but I used a 133 because someone else--on this site, I think--suggested that tip for quick lilacs, so I used it and was very happy with the results. Oh, and in case you aren't familiar with the French plume border (it's from an old book a friend let me borrow), it's a star (pipe the star where it's halfway on the board and halfway on the cake--sort of leaning against the cake--hope that's a good visual for you) with a line piped over it in the shape of a frown with inward curls at the ends and then you add a leaf at each side---do this a bunch of times to make a border----very pretty effect, especially all one color.
I hope this helps you a little bit. The cake really did look very classy and unisex--I have to say I surprised myself a bit, too. I will try to load a picture of the cake in my photos, but I'm not sure I'll be able to tonight with my slooooowwww internet connection. Good luck with your cakes!
I just looked at this again and I'm so sorry my message posted so many times. The computer kept saying "error" last night so I thought it wasn't posting and would try to post it again. I guess it told me "error" and posted it anyway...every time!
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