Cakes For Men Are Hard!!
Decorating By springlakecake Updated 19 Jul 2006 , 11:57am by springlakecake
I am making a birthday cake for a neighbor's husband. I find men's cakes to be more difficult (with women you can just slap on a few flowers 
)I think she will let me have free reign on it but wants it to be iced in white with green accents (he is a michigan state fan) So therefore I feel I am limited to those two colors. I was thinking of doing white buttercream with maybe green fonant accents (I have only done one fondant cake so far, so I dont know if I feel comfortable covering it with fondant yet) Any good ideas, or references to your pics would be appreciated. I really need to do round cakes because I dont have any square ones yet. thanks Oh he is turning '40' as well.
I agree that men's cakes are hard to do. I think that this one could be easy though. You could do a round cake, and do an edible or fbct of the MSU spartan head and then around the spartan write Happy 40th Birthday Neighbor! on the top of the cake and then around the cake sides, you can cut out little MSU "S's" or just random green fondant shapes.
Hey thanks for the idea! I hadnt even thought about the sparty head! I just might do that. Do you think a color flow would look okay? I have never use fbct. Thanks for the pic-love the idea!
I think color flow would be fine...I'm glad the idea worked out for you...I'd love to see how the cake turns out.
You could just do a pattern transfer of the head on the cake. My brother-in-law is a Texas Longhorns fan, so for his birthday, that's what I did. I tried to add the picture, but I'm not sure if it took. He absolutely loved it!
Are you familiar with using Royal Icing or Color Flow?
I would suggest icing your cake with white buttercream, and then making a '40' out of green Royal Icing or Color Flow, and sticking some wire in the ends of them. After they dry, put them sticking out of the top of the cake.
Then, for the remainder of the cake, I would pipe a green border, and use green fondant cutouts of stars, or circles (because those are neither feminine or masculine - very versatile!) and place those all over the cake. Maybe even do some streamers by wrapping a small piece of fondant around a dowel rod, let it dry, and then stick out of the top of the cake surrounding the '40'.
I think something along the lines of this one would be your best bet, but using different shades of green:
Other ideas:
oneprimalscream,
I love those cakes, are they all yours? I love that design, my favorite are the black and white as well as the one with the 18.
Thanks for your ideas oneprimalscream-I actually have the first of your photos in my favorites (the 18 one) I was actually thinking of some of your suggestions based on that cake! I was wondering how you got is sparkely though...Thanks a lot
You can find Kristy's cakes here...
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-photos-by-peacockplace.html
She can answer your questions - HTH!
Woah, sorry I didn't check this sooner.
Sorry about the confusion - NONE of those were mine, just to clear that up.
That's what I thought you were doing, actually. I was like, "Ahhhh! I never said they were mine!"
Hahaha...
Okay well now I feel bad that I started this whole thing when I just assumed they were oneprimalscream's. I should have taken notice that she never said they were hers. Plus the first one says "KristyPeacock" right on it. duh...
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