Opinions-How Would I Make A 3 Tier Tuxedo Cake??
Decorating By sunflowerfreak Updated 9 Jun 2007 , 1:28am by Renaejrk
Hi everyone,
Megal80 recently posted an awesome 3 tier men's shirt and tie cake. And someone had said it would be cool as a tuxedo cake too. So I am coming to all of you and asking you-How would you make a 3 tier tuxedo cake? What size would the cakes be? Fondant or buttercream? Would there be a collar? Bowtie? etc. I just want to get some opinions. I am making a bride cake for my neice's shower for Sunday and I thought it would be awesome to do a tuxedo cake because the groom is also going to be at the shower. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Norma (sunflowerfreak)
I don't know if I am just being paranoid but whenever I ask questions here on CC I get very little response. Is it because I ask too many questions and no one wants to answer anymore? I am really getting a complex here.
That cake is so cute and it would make a great tuxedo.
If I were to do it, I'd do three tiers all the same size. I like "morning coat" , or cutaway, tuxedos, so I'd probably do that from the shoulders down to the cut away of the coat and showing a vest, wing collar shirt, ascot style tie, lapels, and stripped trouser on the bottom.
Here's a google image of what I'm thinking:
http://vintagedancers.org/images/1920_morning_suit_b.jpg
HTH
Rae
That would be so cute! I would make a horizontal pleated piece of fondant in the accent wedding color and wrap it around the bottom tier as the cumber bun, I would then probably make the middle tier white with black fondant wrapped around with a white V left showing with a couple of buttons. I would continue the black up to the top tier and make a little black collar and a bowtie on the top front.... sorry, got my wheels turning... 
Don't forget to add tails trailing from the middle tier down in the back.... LOL
Here's a "bride and groom" cake from the 2006 Austin Cake show that might give you some inspiration:
http://www.jonmasters.com/photos/family/category1011/picture124.aspx
And here's a link to my Tuxedo cake -- not exactly what you're going for, but again, might give you some inspiration:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=90534
Dear Sunflowerfreak, I hope you have not developed a complex. I can't answer your question other than to say I think you have a neat idea and I can't wait to see what you do but I can tell you if I think I can ever put my 2 cents in to help I surely will. Looks like you are getting some good feedback on this topic though. Good luck and I wanna see 
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Sunflowerfreak, I love the pic Cakeboss sent you of her cake 
If you wanted to make it smaller maybe you could do 3 tiers (the top= the hat; the middle= lapels w/ shirt and tie just like Cakeboss; the bottom=pinstriping for trousers) and then you could make "tails" of the tuxedo in the back going from the middle to bottom tier.
Cakeboss, I love your cake 
When I read Sunflowerfreak's post I had a visual in my head and then when I looked at your pic 
. I was thinking, " Hey, that was like magic!" 
Hey Sunflowerfreak, don't feel bad. I've felt like that, too at times about my posts. I'm gonna keep an eye out for your posts; I AM Paranoids Unite! 
I'm only teasing you because I related so well to you
Oh these are all very good ideas. It's just amazing how many clever people on here on CC. Cakeboss thanks for all the pics. I love your cake. I will see what I can come up with. This is going to be fun!!
Shirley, thanks for the picture. It's a really cute cake too. Oh my what am I going to do? I have all these options now.
'I don't know if I am just being paranoid but whenever I ask questions here on CC I get very little response... ' sunflowerfreak
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It's because you want an answer in less than 30 minutes. There are slow times on CC when there are few people here, and perhaps noone who knows the answer. Calm down a little, someone always shows up... 
I did it. I finished the tuxedo cake. Thanks for all of your suggestions. It was really fun and very easy to make. Please check it out in my photos. Please let me know what you think. Thanks for all of your help!!
Thanks everyone. It really was very easy to make.
At the bottom of each reply there is a line of boxes, one is marked 'photos'. Just click on that and it will take you to that person's photos. (I don't have many any more, because the newest change made them look kind of warpy, so I removed a lot of them.)
Good job--my kind of cake, easy with a lot of WOW factor--keep up the good work
Thanks everyone. The shower was yesterday and I had made 3 cakes, petit fours (Kathy Scott molds!!) and some decorated cookies. All of them are in my pics. Everything was a hit. And the cakes tasted AWESOME. I had so much help here on CC. My mother-in-law even called my husband when she got home to tell him that I did a spectacular job and how proud she was of me and glad that I was her daughter-in-law. COOL ha? Thanks everyone for a very successful day.
All of your cakes and cookies look great! Wow, what a great comment by your Mother In Law.....not that you needed to be told, lol!
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