I volunteered to do the cake for am appreciation for my pastor and his wife. Love them both, wonderful people. I am picking the design and I want something beautiful, give 'em a little wow. Someone picked the colors yellow, blue and white. I am not crazy about the colors and not sure what to do with it. I wanted to do stacked but it only needs to serve about 50. The only thing I won't do is a sheet cake because I want something different. I thought about just using the yellow but still no specific ideas. This is needed a week from Sunday. HELP ME PLEASE!!!
Is it OK to use a lot of flowers on a cake that's for a man too? What are some different flowers? You know something besides roses?
I definitely think you can use a lot of flowers - some of the royal icing flowers could be really pretty - you could make kind of yellow & blue pansys..... or just some nice little blue, yellow, and white apple blossoms could be really cute. You could do a cross cake - either in the pan, or you could cut it out of sheetcakes. Not sure how many that feeds.... but it would seem appropriate and could be really cute w/ flowers on it and a message in the middle..... or you could try to "construct" a little "church" building out of color flow pieces or gumpaste.... or even gingerbread.... I know they have patterns out there for churches & stuff for weddings.... sorry I can't tell you where! Good luck!
On the Wilton site, they have decorating techniques, and I've browsed through a couple time. They have examples of different flowers. Here is the link:
http://www.wilton.com/decorating/basic/index.cfm
if you are doing one cake for both i think flowers are okay.
so other flowers are daisy, star drop flowers, and the wilton webpage has more flowers....
as far as design- maybe stripes, ribbon, bows, etc.
hopefully this helps you maybe get the ideas flowing...
this all i can think of for now.
I love the pansy idea, I would do white cake (cross shape would be really nice, make it double-layer so it's enough to serve), white icing with the pansies cascading across and down would be lovely!
there's not a lot of yellow in this one but there is some. i love this cake...
One idea would be a pale blue (not baby blue, but pale) flat icing, with yellow and white flowers. You could make daisies in both yellow and white - somehow daisies seem a little more guy-ish and less formal than fancier roses.
Or something along the lines of this cake I did for a baptism...
You could ice the cake in a light yellow, and make the side stripes mainly in blue and white with thinner yellow lines to highlight, and the flowers in any combination of white, yellow, and blue.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=BJsGRL&cat=0&pos=3
in one of the wilton books there's a heart-shaped cake that has a blue basketweave on the side with a bunch of daisies cascading down one side. and the daisies are waaaay easy to make. i also like the idea of using a cross shaped pan. you can use that instead of the heart. or even use the wilton open book pan and make it into a bible.
Do they have a favorite hobby, vacation spot, book, song, etc? You can always personalize it to them & make it even more special. With my experiences people have been more WOWed when it has a special meaning than if it's gorgeous.
If you don't want to go that route...Does the church have stained glass windows, certain colors for the church sign, pews, hymnals, pulpit. I don't know how ambitious you are but if you could "recreate" the sanctuary at all that would be meaninful & wow!
Hope the ideas start flowing. I'm in a stump myself.
I just made a cake in the colors you mentioned for my nephews baptism, I think they are very pretty together....Everyone acted like they thought it was pretty anyway. Here is my picture:
I think that flowers should bve fine...you could also do some bows with the blue and yellow that wouldn't look too girly!
Here are two pictures of my Course III final cake. I made this for a friend (a guy!) and he loved it. He's a teacher, and his birthday was the day after my last class, which also happened to be the last day of school, so I took it in to school so he could share it with everybody.
I took the "good" picture with the nice background before I put the little fondant scroll on top, and the only picture I have of the final finished cake is in front of a white painted wall so the daisies on top don't show well.
I got the inspiration from the new Wilton Tiered Cakes book, but changed the pillars (don't like the "cake on stilts" look) and the colors.
I think it would be great iced in light blue with different shades of blue stripes, with the daisies - it would have the right colors for you, and would have the "wow" factor you're after.
This was a 10 inch and 6 inch, I'm not sure how many "official" servings that is, but it probably served about 45 people at school, and I'm sure some of the servings were larger than standard, LOL!
Laura.
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