I've been asked to do a 60th Birthday Cake for the Father of one of my colleagues at work. All I know about him is he loves football, but she doesn't want a football themed cake.
I'm one of the working full time, baker in the evening types and I have a wedding cake for that weekend also, so I need a simple design. I was thinking of maybe doing a nice fondant parcel cake with a bow which wouldn't take me too long to decorate after I have the wedding cake out of the way. I won't be able to charge full going rate for this either, small office, this girl is only an apprentice hasn't a great deal of money and has agreed to let me leave cards at the venue instead of profit.
Any ideas of manly colours for a parcel cake or any other ideas for a 60th Birthday please.
I know this one is for Christmas but I love the way the package is folded and taped on the ends. And the airmail stamp is cute too.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=package&cat=0&pos=55&search=package
Maybe you could incorporate the 60th birthday with the addresses on the package like:
Steve Smith
The Big 6-0 Lane
Gray Hair, FL
You can incorporate different sayings for aging or getting old to make up the addresses on the package
A blue bow would look masculine and nice with the brown or the cream color is nice too. you could write the happy birthday on the cake board.
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