I Need Help With A Very Special Cake....
Decorating By jen1977 Updated 12 Mar 2007 , 3:41pm by jen1977
My little sister has recently joined the aif force, and is almost finished with her advanced training in Mississippi. She will be home in 10 days, and my dh, 2 little boys, and I are driving to my mom's the last weekend of the month to see her and her and my bil one last time before they go off to Vegas where she'll be stationed 
My sister and I are very close, and my boys ADORE both her and their uncle. We are all planning a farewell dinner for the two of them. I want to incorporate several elements into this cake, and it will probably be 6 and 8 stacked. My sister will be a secretary in the af for the time being, my bil is almost finished with his elementary ed phys ed degree and wants to be a gym teacher and basketball coach, and they are going to Vegas. I thought about making a big slot machine from gumpaste for the topper, and putting a girl in camo and a guy in a coaches uniform with a basketball on top, or near the top. I was thinking for the borders to make small basketballs, coins, and pencils or something to incorporate all three. First, do you guys think this would be too time consuming and ugly? Can anyone give me any other ideas? I'm very open to changing the design...I just wnt it to be a very special cake! Thanks!
Definitely time consuming-start now! I think it would be very cute and so extremely personal to incorporate all of those things. Your sister will be very pleased.
On another note, I'm sorry she's moving so far away from you. It broke my heart to leave my sister-but we email A LOT and talk almost every day. (((Hugs to you!!!)))
Definitely time consuming-start now! I think it would be very cute and so extremely personal to incorporate all of those things. Your sister will be very pleased.
On another note, I'm sorry she's moving so far away from you. It broke my heart to leave my sister-but we email A LOT and talk almost every day. (((Hugs to you!!!)))
Thank you! We were really hoping she would be stationed here in Dayton at Wright Patt, but it didn't happen. My two little boys adore both of them, and it's going to be so hard on all of us. My bil just got out of the army about 18 months ago and they were stationed in Germany for almost 3 years, so Vegas is closer, but still too far for frequent visits.
Do you think I could make these out of gumpaste and put them on a gumpaste plaque so they could keep the topper?
Instead of the slot machine as the topper, why not make it the whole cake... then have figures to represent the two sitting on the "dish" part (where the money comes out). That way you can use the wheel images as basketballs or anything else you want to portray. Does this make sense?
kind of like this: http://www.aboutthecake.com/14e357e10.jpg
i think your idea is good. you must be really talanted! Can't wait to see it.
on another note, you will miss you sister I am sure, but what a great excuse to visit her in VEGAS! can't spend too much time away from your sis right??? Visit often ,that is my suggestion =)
i think your idea is good. you must be really talanted!
That is what I'm worried about...actually being able to do it! I've made fondant animals before, and fondant kids in innertubes, but never something this complicated! If I start now on the figures and can't do it, I'll have time to rethink my idea!
Instead of the slot machine as the topper, why not make it the whole cake... then have figures to represent the two sitting on the "dish" part (where the money comes out). That way you can use the wheel images as basketballs or anything else you want to portray. Does this make sense?
kind of like this: http://www.aboutthecake.com/14e357e10.jpg
That is a very good idea, but I would have to travel almost 4 hours with the cake...do you think a slot machine shaped cake would make it that far already assembled minus putting the people on it?
I did a slot machine that is in my gallery. I took a somewhat different approach to it by allowing all the fondant pieces to dry hard and then securing them to the cake with royal icing at the seams...kind of like a gingerbread house. It might be a little too time consuming for what you want to do, but it might give you ideas at least.
Email me at [email protected] and I would be more than happy to send you a how to. I get so many requests for it that I already have it written up and ready to send.
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