I'm makeing a weedding cake for Saturday. Here in CA it wi8ll be aobut 80-83 degrees for this wedding. (they said the cake would be in the shade!) They want BC icing and fondant rosses cascading down the sides of the tiers. I'm placing the roses with the toothpicks on them but i'm really worried about the toothpics sliding out. Is the cake enough to hold them in?
Has anybody ever dealt with this? Is there anything I can do?
Definetly use all shortening bc as the pp have said. For the roses, since they like to melt and distort, I have been using air dry buttercream for all of my flowers....still tastes like buttercream without the issue of it being too soft, melting or worrying about getting the roses on just right. Here is the link if you want to try it:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2278-0-Airdried-Buttercream-Icing.html
I make all of my flowers with this now, makes it sooo easy! HTH!
Can you eat those air-dried flowers? I love eating flowers -that was the biggest thing when you were a kid - getting the piece of cake w/ the rose on it b/c then you got the pretty piece - AND you got more icing to eat! So can you eat them?
I HATE All-crisco buttercream - blech! I'm hoping an upcoming graduation party I'm doing will be inside - or at least the cake will be inside until serving time. Good luck with your wedding cake!
alibugs, yes its outsie but will be in the shade...i'm told.
I'm useing bc with the chocoate cake and strawberry for the white.
Yes i am useing all crisco.
My roses are dried fondant with gumtex so i'm not worried about them...only that they will slide out of the cake. They will be attached with toothpicks.
Make sure that when you place the toothpicks, they are all at a sharp angle down and into the cake. If you stuck them straight into the side, they will have a greater chance of pulling out. You said its a cascade, right? Start from the bottom and make sure those ones are resting firmly (and same on each tier ledge) and then work up so that they all rest on each other a little. make sense?
They should be okay facing downwards as long as the toothpick is pointing down into the cake. What type of base board are you using? If it is a drum or cardboard would it be possible to use wooden kabob skewers cut to a long enough length to stick into the base board for the first three or four roses on the bottom? They would be resting on the base and be on sticks actually poked into it. Then like KoryAK stated the ones above would rest on those as they made their way up the side of the cake.
Angela
Mareg,
I didn't realize that the roses were completed and that hence the toothpicks were already hardened in them. I wouldn't bend or break any of the toothpicks as that will just weaken the support. I guess I would have stuck the toothpicks through the bottom/back of the roses at a downward angle. Then the toothpick could be poking down into the cake and the roses would be cascading down. But since they are already hardened on the toothpicks, I would build the cascade from the bottom up using the base as support and rest the others on it.
A challenge is an opportunity to learn. I imagine that it will all turn out just fine. Good luck and let us know what you ended up doing and how it worked out.
Angela
I would advise the bride that you are not responsible for the cake tilting, sliding, or any freak of nature type thing due to the icing melting. What kind of frosting do you usually use on your cakes or what are you planning to use?
I'm using a bc without butter. ....I'm hoping its really cooler today than yesterday! Weatherman has to be right!!!! 
Thanks all for you ideas and help!
Thanks for asking Marthajo1! It actually did very well. It was not too warm. About 78 but in a car with no a/c I was not convinced it wouldn't melt. I had placed it in the fridge the night before and when i took it out of the car it was actually still cold under the cake plate. The fondant flowers did great also. No soggy petals with the moisture from the fridge.
The place where they had the cake table was nice and cool under a patio.
Every body said it was beatuiful and today I heard that it was great tasting too! Music to my ears!
I'm go glad its over...till the next one
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