ok, so covering a cake board in aluminum foil... this is to make it reusable? or just to make it impermeable to oily cake/icing stains?

It serves a coupla purposes (and by the way, there is no such thing as a dumb question).
First, yep you can reuse the board if you wanna.
Second, it adds a little bling to what you are making.
Third, it does keep the oils from marring the board.

There's no such thing as a dumb question, right?! It accomplishes both. I've used foil wrapping paper for quite a few of my cakes and it works great. Gives you a lot of variety instead of just silver.

be careful with aluminum foil, though, because it tends to cut very easily so when you cut your cake, you may get little pieces of foil stuck to it as you're serving it.

I use a plastic (dollar store) table cover, it's cheap and you can cover a lot of cake boards with it and there are lots of colors. The icing won't get the board greasy and it doesnt tear as bad as regular tin foil. I also go to Home Depot and go back into the wood section and buy 12 inch round boards, probably 1/2 - 3/4 inch thick (already cut) for around $1.50 and cover those in the plastic and ask that the people getting my cake to please return the board. Even though it's inexpensive it's a hasstle to go buy more. No one in 14 years has had a problem returning my boards. They just remove the plastic. And the boards don't bend like the cardboard ones!

I personally wouldn't call a cake board covered in aluminum foil reusable. The foil always gets ripped a little for me when the cake is cut, and then the board gets messy. I use foam board cut to the size I want and then covered in scrapbook paper and then contact paper. I'll have to try the plastic table coveres though, that sounds like a good idea.

ckkerber, how did you get your picture on the forum? I have tried to put one of my cake pictures on and I keep getting errors that the picture is too big. I have tried to decrease the size of the pic. but it still won't work. I know how to do all the browsing and uploading but I guess I do better at making cakes than working on the computer! ha

i like that HD idea, I have yet to have to make a cake that size though.. I also use foam cors.. I have covered in foil paper from the cake supply.. and i have used wrapping paper and then covered in cello

ging hun,
do you have microsoft photo editor?
If you do it's really easy to adjust the size of your pic.
Just right click the photo in question, then click on "open with" then click on Microsoft photo editor and then you can go from there. usually photos have to be 2000 pixels or less for it to fit. But you can do that by going to the resize thing and then down at the bottom of the little window there is inches, centimeters and pixels.
Click on the pixels thing, then go back up to where the numbers are and make the larger number 2000 or less. click apply, save as. and you should be fine with uploading those pictures then.

chaptlps, thanks! I will give it a try!!!! I was able to downsize my pictures to put them on CC hopefully I will get a pic up there soon! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

ckkerber, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

I mostly use foil, although my dh recently got me a round piece of 1/4" clear acrylic, which is great! One time, I needed a special paper on the board & couldn't find what I wanted in wrapping paper or anything. I got some 12"x12" scrapbook papers, taped them together, then took them & got them laminated. I still have it, it is very durable.

Brenda

thank you everyone! I just think some of my questions are dumb because I envision the professionals on CC saying "DUH!" to themselves when they read it

I know it is a little late, I'm new to all this. But I use the freezer paper that butchers use. If you put it on your board, shiny side up, the icing doesn't mess it up and I've never had it rip when cutting the cake.