There are four birthdays next week all in the same family. One wants a chocolate batman cake. Another is getting an ice cream cake. The last two are mom (50's) and her son's (30's). There will be about 25 people at the party, and 4 cakes. These will be large pieces, say 3x3 or so. The ice cream cake is being served as the ice cream with the regular cakes, so servings don't count for that.
Need ideas for the two remaining cakes. Can I color chocolate canned icing black with no problems? The Batman cake will be the main serving cake. The other two will be small, but I would like a tiered cake for the mother and a layer cake for the guy - he loves lots of frosting.
Also, flavors? We have chocolate. I know they love strawberry anything, and I really don't want to do white again. Tried banana before, and that worked great but the kids said it "tastes weird." Using boxed mixes, willing to use puddings in them for flavor. Maybe lemon?
Please help!
tia - Nichole
I am not a frilly kinda gal either, so for mom how about some of the buttercream 2 tiered cakes with overlapping circles. I have seen several in galleries eg..
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=Schmoop&cat=0&pos=2
this one is lovely but I have seen one where even the spots are buttercream.
As for the 30 year old son, atari sounds good, like a gameboy cake- squareish design with speaker holes etc on it. Other ideas are a fishing or golf theme cake?
Good luck!
Hope this helps!
Sorry had to edit pic, shud work now.
Thanks for the reply! I decided to go with a coffee cup design, chocolate cake soaked with Bailey's. Made coffee beans of bc to put beside it. As there will be 4 cakes total at the party, this will be more of a centerpiece cake that she can enjoy later. If I put a thicker layer of bc under the fondant, will it mess up the fondant? I am pretty sure the fondant will be peeled off before eating, but I want the cake to have enough frosting.
As long as the layer of buttercream is not too thick for the weight of the fondant you should be fine. I use ganache under mine, but heaps of people here at cc use thick layers of buttercream, most let it set a little in the fridge first to firm it up a bit so that it doesn't squash down when the fondant is laid on.
Surprisingly to me, heaps of adults eat my fondant on top of the icing layer anyway, but I always like to allow for them to peel it off too!
The coffee cup design sounds great! I bet she will love it!
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