Wow, cande, squirrelly...and everyone!! You have some great ideas!! Cande, I love the thought of doing a buttercream cake with peaches as an accent...maybe a fancy basket weave cake. Also, the gumpaste peach blossoms as an accent....SUCH A PRETTY IDEA!!! They are absolutely delicious, and I can make and freeze the biscuit ahead of time and assemble them last minute...it would not be so hard. We are planning on going full scale on a few ideas....like creating another storybook scene, but more so for a wedding.
Also, for the packaging...any good ideas? I was going to make mini "cake dots". Mini cupcakes with different fillings and flavors, and we were going to cut out pink, orange, yellow, white "dots" of my homemade fondant and put them on top of each one. This way, people can have a nibble to realize that my fondant actually tastes good. I then was going to maybe do a gold luster dust design. Of course, the show is only 4 hours long, so they probably would be ok under glass.
Any suggestions on the kind of flavors to put out there? I was thinking: Chocolate fudge with Belgian chocolate ganache and raspberry; vanilla with my newfound white chocolate buttercream; orange with orange zest buttercream. Please, any and all help would be so appreciated!! I don't want to overdo it, either. I may have to take a personal day to get all of this done!! Thank-God I am a teacher and have all of Christmas break to work on my display cakes/etc!!
RE: Mini cake dots
A good idea for the samples is to make mini cupcakes in the major flavors you want to showcase, then pipe the corresponding filling into them. Then frost with a quick swirl of BC or ganache or whatever you want to showcase. You could add a small dot of color-coordinated fondant to the top to serve two purposes: 1) The fondant color could correspond to the flavor so they are "labeled" and 2) people would eat it with the mini cupcake and would see that your fondant actually tastes good.
Something really fast for this would be the little mini flower punch (the one that makes a flat flower with 'veins' or an impression in the flower). You could very quickly punch out a ton of them. Then you would have a piece of fondant in a pretty flower shape so they would look decorated as well, all with minimal effort. You could even pipe a tiny dot center in the fondant flower to really finish it off if you wanted.
I would use the cutest muffin papers you can find, and display them on doiliesusing amix of regal and contemporary. If you don't want to use papers you could also use the ultra-thin wafers instead.
Hi Ellen,
I'm so excited for you! I hope everything goes really well at the Show!!
The wafers are made out of flour and starch and pressed really super thin then baked. They look like a thin milky white disk. They don't taste like anything. They are used under gooey cookies or macaroons (the coconut kind), etc. You can buy them in several shapes (circles, squares, etc) or in sheets.
. o O (Whenever I see the Pope give Communion on TV it always looks to me like he is using them for the Communion bread 
But I'm not Catholic so I don't know if those are really what they use for Communion or not )
I wish you much luck in this as it is a FANTASTIC opportunity! My suggestions are ( you are open to suggestions right? )
Keep the cakes simple and elegant. I've noticed in the galleries here on CC, the cakes with minimal borders, smooth clean edges and lines and only a few colors get the best reviews. I know my favorites on this site are the cakes that are smooth white buttercream with shimmering fondant pearls on them. OR the cakes with white buttercream and buttercream swirls in white on them. I'd do a flower arrangement to show your talents at flowers in either fondant or gumpaste. I've also noticed that the stacked cakes are more preferred these days over the tiered cakes with the columns and such. It seems more brides in my area are requesting them in place of the other.
Hope this helps but if you are talented enough to get a chance like this, I doubt you'll need any of these suggestions.
Itd be cool to see a whimsy cake at one of these conventions!!
We are all so happy for you!
Lady luck has given you her sweet kiss!!
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