Hey I'm new here.. I have done wilton classes & know some decorating tech. Now I'm planning to make/decorate a birthday cake of my daughter who is turning 2 this Sat. & I'm very tensed coz I have decorated few cakes so far but not on 30 people size scale. I'm making a Dora & Boots theme cake & I really want some help. I'm planning to do charaters like Dora, Boots, her backpack, some trees & clouds by using Royal icing on traced designs & transfering the pattern on cake when dried up. Will this work properly? Also fo glass land & blue sky I'll use color mist spray (never used that).. what do you think about its efficiency. And my most needy question is how much fondant is needed to cover a 11x15 inch sheet cake???? I have made marchmellow fondant 1 batch recipe. Will that be enough or I'll have to make 1 more? (1 batch recipe has 2 lb sugar, 16 oz mini marshmello & some 2-3 Tbs water...
Please let me know ASAP, I have hardly any time left to prepare...
Thanks.
The color flow transfers should work fine. I did that for my DD's 2nd bday cake as well. 
The color sprays work well, just make sure that you don't have the ones with the mint flavoring in them (they did this to some older ones, and they make the whole cake taste like mint, yuk). One batch of MMF should cover the cake, but if you're making decorations with fondant, you might make the second batch just in case. If your decorations will be royal frosting, the 1 batch should be fine.
I love the color flow/ royal characters, I just used them on my DD cake as well. It will be wonderful.
The spray on color mist stuff... I used it on my doll cakes in my photos, it's nice for small areas but not too pretty on larger areas as you'll see lol. It tastes DISGUSTING! WET. But when it dries it has no taste at all. And I also recommend if you're using this have a large cake board or scrap of something next to the cake as close as possible to start your spray stream on the scrap/cake board then as you're spraying move to the cake because it does "puddle" when you don't want it to and it splatters when you don't want it to lol...
Good luck!!!!
Thanks everybody... It really helped me to figure it out what exactly I have to do... i'm excited as well as tensed.
Luckylurker : I won't be using fondant for decoration so 1 batch should be okay.
Adrienne0317 : do you have any photos of your cake in which you have used royalicing characters?
OhMyGoodies : i think I have to use that spay very carefully hmm.. I have tried it on some practice fondant. what I have noticed is you have to cover rest of the area where you don't want that color & also spray lightly.. especially in my cake, I want only for sky & grass ground.... i saw your web site...Awesome pics.. ) so how much do you charge for a party cake (like 30-40 people)??...
Also can you tell me how advance I can bake & frost the cake?
Ayways Thanks again everyone.........
Hi there=) Just wanted to give another option of how to do the dora/boots stuff. It is called a chocolate transfer, and they turn out real cute!!
Here is a dora cake that used chocolate transfers..
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_85474.html
And here is a link to a tutorial done by cali4dawn on how to do chocolate transfers...
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/111071540UEhrpE?start=12
Not sure if the CT is an option for you, I just wanted to mention it incase you have not seen it. I love they way they turn out, and you can't argue with eating chocolate!! Jen
Edited to add...I bake my cakes a week before I plan to decorate and freeze it. Helps with time and makes the cakes nice and moist. I make my icing the day before I plan to decorate. And I decorate the day before we plan to eat it=) HTH some, Jen
Hey NewbeeBaker, saw ur chocolate transfer AMEZING!!! 
but I cannot do that coz hubby dear has chocolate allergy 
Quick update on my cake : I'm using 11X15 inch sheet pan (1st time that big) & I didn't have any idea that it'll be too big for 1 cake mix... I'm planning for 3 cakemixes so bought 3 diff color... made 1 & its too think.. Now hubby dear has ran to 24-hrs Safeway (its 1:30 am here) to buy 1 more which is one of the same flavor. So now this time I'll do 2 pks at a time... but my Q is will that look silly inside the fondant 1 layer is thinner than another.. DH says no one looks in that detail ... Also since party is of 28-30 people I don't want to use 4 cakemix packs.. that would be too much.. That will mess up with my fondant quantity as well... So please tell me should I go with 2 diff thickness layers or not?
can I join 2 layers with Raspberry filling? or I have to join it with butter crwam icing to cancel that unevenness?
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