Well, a sister in the congregation is having a baby. Woohoo. 
She's naming her daughter Victoria and so the baby shower is Victorian-themed. They are decorating the tables w/ tulips. And somehow the second chair in organizing wants a tiered present cake incorporated into all this? 
Well, let's ignore that for a bit because I told my SIL (first chair) that the lady's idea wouldn't work. . .
SOOOOOOOO. . .here come the questions as they always do when making a cake. . .
How would you incorporate tulips into a tiered cake? I searched the gallery and unfortunately there isn't much.
Are gum paste tulips hard?
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What the heck is a Victorian cake? I searched and too found nothing on it!
That's pretty much the ONLY thing that MUSTTTT be done w/ the cake- Victorian themed.
Do a google search on images and use the keyword victorian. You'd be surprised at what you come up with. Perhaps you can get an inspiration from one of the photos.
For the tulips, go to www.discountsugarflowers.com and look at their tulips. they're really very pretty when they're open.
i have yet to work with gumpaste, haven't had the opportunity, and there are never classes in my area. so i'll have to wait till i have time to experiment. in the meantime, these guys make beautiful flowers, and you can click on each one and it will show you a close up so you can figure how to make your own.
HTH
Victorian is all about frills and flowers and colors. Cornelli lace lends itself to a Victorian theme. Cottage garden flowers.....daisies, pansies, ribbon roses, etc. etc. Pretty fondant ribbons.................. Muted colors are good for Victorian things. You can add tulips to the cottage garden look. I've never made them personally. I think there are some in the Wilton gumpaste course book maybe???
this is called a Victorian lace cake..
http://www.dessertworks.net/wdgPics/rcWedding16.jpg
it may give you something to work with and you could just add tulips in pastal baby colors instead of roses
kylie
If you Google "victorian cakes" under Images--you get a bunch of pictures. Victorian usually implies something very floral and ornate. (In the Victorian era every flower had it's own message/meaning when you gave it to someone. I don't know what tulips meant, though.)
As for gumpaste, they are time consuming but somewhat like working with fondant. Except I found that my gumpaste flowers were more likely to break and give me fits than with fondant. I don't know if that is always true or not, though. HTH
In my photos, I have a "Victorian Dream" cake. It might give you some ideas. You could replace the large roses with tulips and do smaller filler flowers like rosebuds, stephanotis, sweet peas. The cones on the side can be done in fondant or royal filagree piping.
Gum paste tulips are super easy. You could make them in any size and even do them without wires. French tulips are actually smaller than the regular Dutch or American tulips. They're sort of frilly and very delicate--great for a baby's cake.
HTH
Rae
Your cakes (Khoudek and BlakesCakes) really helped out a lot. But I really am ignorant to the whole laying out of flowers. Is there a tutorial somewhere? I don't know how to "arrange" them.
I'm a floral designer by trade and use floral designer concepts to help me. Arrange large flowers in odd numbers. When using the same flowers use smaller to largest. Use one focal color for monochromatic or 1 main color for the larger flower and the accent flowers can be multiple colors, with accent flowers being smaller in size. When I started working with gumpaste flowers I bought the DVD Sugar Flower Art vol 1 and 2. They not only show how to make the flowers, but how to arrange the flower sprays. I think if you keep the same concepts in mind it should work. That all said, every rule is made to be broken. Sometimes just laying the flowers out next to each other will give you an idea of how to proceed.
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