Help!!! I Need Some Insperation!!!
Decorating By TheCakeGirl87 Updated 22 Mar 2007 , 8:13pm by abeverley
I was asked last night by some of my fellow students to make a family tree cake. We are doing a spin off of Junior Senior which will be called the Freshmen Sophomore; the theme is Our 50th reunion. What it is is we are going to go to this as if it were 50 years from now, we are to come with our familys. Most likely we will marry each others real college statistics of Bryan say that 60% of us will marry each other. So I am making a family tree out of current students which marry each other and have current students as kids, but I have not ideas! Any would be very helpful, thanks so much! Oh Yeah by the way it is next Saturday!
Hi, You are my neighbor 
Welcome to cakecentral & the BEST of luck on your cake 
I know you will do great!!
Maybe a large sheet cake but carved on the side to resemble a large book, like a yearbook. I am thinking to make the tree and branches of chocolate fondant or chocolate clay. If you have an edible printer I would print current photos to use as the couple and try and get some to let you copy their baby photos and use those as the chidren. You could put each photo on a small circle of dried gumpaste or fondant and either online them with royal icing or narrow fondant rope to resemble a frame. Paint them gold with a mixture of luster dust and alcohol.
Wow. That's a tough one on such short time!
It's tough because it's not one family tree you're trying to represent, right? You're trying to go with the idea that many of you will marry each other, etc....
Hmmmm
How about if you had faces and branches or lines connecting those faces randomly? You might match the faces in an overlapping, hard to follow kind of way so nothing concrete is indicated about anyone. So then the idea is that this one married that one, had kids, those kids are then matched with someone else's kids, etc. That way no one in particular has to be represented and no one will get upset or embarrassed. It seems like that might be one way to at least represent the theme like you are trying to do.
I hope that even made sense.
Have you been to the Wilton web page they have a family tree cake. They make color flow circles and then put faces on them. And put string on them and attatch them to brantches on the tree. Which I'm thinking is like three or four round cakes carved to look like a tree and then iced brown and give it some bark looking marks. I would just go to wilton they will have the whole thing on paper for you. Anyway post it when you get it doen and show us how it turned out....
Oh yeah or you could do cup cakes. with names or faces and shap then like a tree!
Hi! If you search under 'family tree' you will find a lot of options! 
Good luck!
I have a family tree cake in my photos - a drawing of a tree with all the family names around the cake.
Sorry for those of you that were waiting on a picture of this cake but it will not be coming. I was informed last night that we were unable to get the location so they canceled it. Hopefully it will happen later in the semester. Thanks for all of your help anyway!
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