What would you put onto a cake for a man's 90th birthday?? Would flowers be appropriate?? I WELCOME any ideas!! Thank You in advance!!
~Kathee
Do we know anything about this man? His hobbies/interests? Stamp collecting, coin collecting, train collecting, maybe he had a thing for music, or old cars, or he goes somewhere tropical every summer, or owns an RV? What he did for a living? Where has he lived most of his life? Bingo? Does he belong to any clubs or organizations?
I was told he was in the military, but don't do anything with that on the cake, I was told he was in the dairy busines, again don't do anything with that on the cake..........
I was told "we trust you.........do whatever you would put on a man's cake"
They wouldn't listen to me!!! I have NO CLUE!! One said go ahead and do flowers........the other said "flowers, not on a mans cake!!"
rosettes can replace flowers.
fill areas w/ scroll work
chocolate is ok isn't it?
chocolate dipped strawberries??? arranged in a nice pattern
BTW: is this a sheet or a tier cake?
one possibility from galleries: cake w/ diamond design
sketch:
rope border
elongated shells to make frame shells start in middle of frame edge.
where tales of shells meet -- a rosette (place of candle to go too!)
open area could just be lines from a decorators comb or sotis.
sides smooth or combed.
the cake is a half sheet cake..........all vanilla. Can't have chocolate. THANK YOU for your suggestions and drawing!!! It truly is appreciated!! I am so lost on this one!!
How about a newspaper frontpage (on rice paper or edible paper) - either simulated or printed, of the year he was born?
or 'this day in history list' over the years, again, printed up on edible paper, or handwritten, title 'on this day in history, august 22 or whatever the date is, then a list, and some nice shell border or a grandfather clock or something
or something more simple, in the middle, fun, party balloons, different colours, with a letter in each one, spelling HAPPY 90th and then sparklers and confetti and streamers around the side.
I'm thinkin you could either go elegant or party it up dude- Someone who has made it to 90 deserves a bit of fun fanfare IMO lol - like my philosophy at some point in one's life, one starts to act more and more like a kid again - and since lots of neighbours and friends are sneaking along on walkers and what not, it's nice to inject some LIFE INTO THE PARTY (again, IMNSHO)
I was doing a yahoo search '90th birthday' and noticed one or two elegant cakes that had flowers on them, not really girly flowers, (don't know flowers, can ya tell lol), but pretty nonetheless, around the edges etc. So not roses I'm guessing. Well see my dad loves carnations, maybe when he's 90 I'll put carnations on his cake LOL
WOW!! What GREAT ideas!!! I'm with you........PARTY IT UP!!! LOL!!
Eh I've been to a couple of the homes my mom lived in and she's only turning 70 this year. That whole hospital feel and handrailings and walkers everywhere. I mean that's the reality, but I don't want my 90th birthday party to feel like I'm at death's door. Fun and Fanfare and dancing and music and party hats and laughter. I'm going out with a bang damnit! LOL
For my FIL's 75th birthday I did a chocolate cake with chocolate icing, and decorated it with fluer di lis & topped it with almonds, but it was a round cake, not a sheet. I got this right out of one of my Wilton student course books. I'm sure you could do something similar
Do they want anything funny? How about a guy on a rocking chair. The saying can be "you know you're getting old when you sit in your rocking chair .... and can't get it started."
Then there is always making a big 90 decorated with confetti, dots, swirls, whatever!
I bumped into a retirement cake in this site it has different mini cakes and each cake represents a stage in the man's life from baby to retirement you may have to do some research on what he did so it would fit this man, but do a search it is not a very good picture of it but you can clearly see let me know what you decide
I just did a cake for a nice man turning 90 at my church (church threw a suprise party for him) I made a purplish blue colored icing and did all the decorating in this color on a large white b/c sheetcake. I did a reverse shell. just wrote happy 90th birthday on it and put an "N" in the center on all 4 sides of the cake (his last name starts with an N). I didn't want to do flowers so I did chocolate dipped strawberries on the top and on all 4 sides put dipped strawberries angled. I'm not good as good as you guys at decorating yet so the dipped strawberries also covered up some mistakes. Bonus! The church was going to pay me (would have been my first paid cake) and I told them no, since I know him and his wife and they are suck nice people and it's my gift to him. Also, I thought it sucked--there, that's the real reason. I didn't even take a picture of it! Well, low and behold everyone loved it. Thought it was bought and asked which bakery did it. It was gone in minutes. My mom said she overheard people saying that the strawberries were a classy look for an older gentleman. to be honest they didn't give me any ideas and this was the best I could come up with for an older man. Hope this helps. Tell us how it goes.
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