Hi, everyone. I have a new order for a birthday cake with celtic knots. The cake is for a young woman-23 y/o. I have searched the net only to find a trillion designs that all seem impossible to create with icing. I need some help on this one. The order is for the 12th of August. Help if you can. I am still researching and looking, too.
TIA,
Tanya 
Found this in the gallaries. HTH
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&meta=search&type=full&search=celtic+knot
Hi, everyone. I have a new order for a birthday cake with celtic knots. The cake is for a young woman-23 y/o. I have searched the net only to find a trillion designs that all seem impossible to create with icing. I need some help on this one. The order is for the 12th of August. Help if you can. I am still researching and looking, too.
TIA,
Tanya
Tanya, I've been into (obsessed is the term family and friends use LOL) Celtic anything for years now- and I have a ton of links that I already shared with someone- but there are a few 'how tos' out there on making celtic knotwork- and here's one of the more recent ones that I found- it has some great links on it!
http://www.thinkythings.org/knotwork/knotwork.html
Good luck, I can't wait to see how your cake turns out- I'm dying to do something Celtic for someone but the only person I know who would appreciate a Celtic cake of any kind is me LOL 
here is a stained glass celtic knot that could be done by flood filling with royal icing or piping gell and placed on the cake. (the green one)
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tglass.net/TGlass/Celtic/Celtic%2520Knot%2520of%2520Motherhood.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tglass.net/Celtic.htm&h=421&w=400&sz=103&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=-JhD-Xdfw_cMyM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dceltic%2Bknot%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG
Another idea I had was to make a chocolate collar for around the side of the cake with a knot design like the ones that they use around rings. You could use coloured white chocolate or just milk chocolate and white chocolate.
I just recently did a celtic design but my kids dug in before I could take the picture, but I get a lot of my designs from embroidery sites. But my cake was a 2 layer. Round top and the design was the entire top. I carved out the cake design from the top and then flowed the frosting over the top only (before assembling it) so all was covered. Then I layed it on the bottom layer and had misc. designs all around the cake.
here is a stained glass celtic knot that could be done by flood filling with royal icing or piping gell and placed on the cake. (the green one)
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tglass.net/TGlass/Celtic/Celtic%2520Knot%2520of%2520Motherhood.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tglass.net/Celtic.htm&h=421&w=400&sz=103&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=-JhD-Xdfw_cMyM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dceltic%2Bknot%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG
OMG I am so in love with that! And the red one- thanks for posting- forget making that for a cake, I think I have to buy that LOLOL
Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas everyone! I don't know which to choose from. They are all so beautiful!!! I think that this is why I am having so much trouble with it! Can't wait to decide and get it made!!!
Hi guys! There is one more thing that I just learned about this cake. She would like blueberries and raspberries mixed or soaked in some type of liquor mixed into the cake. The flavor matters more than the cake design even! I really need some help trying to figure out what will mix well with these fruits and not give the cake a rank taste. I swear that people can be so weird when it comes to ordering a cake!
TIA,
Tanya
your best bet will be to match the liqueur to the berries, so there is no contrast in taste.
Theresa 
Hi guys! There is one more thing that I just learned about this cake. She would like blueberries and raspberries mixed or soaked in some type of liquor mixed into the cake. The flavor matters more than the cake design even! I really need some help trying to figure out what will mix well with these fruits and not give the cake a rank taste. I swear that people can be so weird when it comes to ordering a cake!
TIA,
Tanya
Go check out your liquor store- while I don't know about baking regular cakes with liqueur, I've made tons of cheesecakes with a variety of. But also used alcohol soaked fruit filling. There are several brandies and creme liqueurs out there that are berry flavoured, also schnapps. Just go raid the liquor store. I combine fruit with various types of alcohol all the time. Wine included. Very nice flavour, not rank at all.
Not sure if your customer wants the fruit mixed in the cake batter or used as filling.
Lots of options to choose from that are complimentary. Have fun!
Just an addendum to that: alcohol burns off when cooking anyway. The 'rankness' you'd be fearing would evaporate in the process!
Okay, this cake is going to give me a headache!!! Not so much caring about the celtic Idea. The customer is wanting to have the berries mixed into the cake batter. I can do that, right? And chocolate dipped strawberries on the top. I have also been asked to make a kahlua filling to go inside the cake! It is due tomorrow!! Any advice guys? I will be glad to get this one done!
TIA,
Tanya
Okay, this cake is going to give me a headache!!! Not so much caring about the celtic Idea. The customer is wanting to have the berries mixed into the cake batter. I can do that, right? And chocolate dipped strawberries on the top. I have also been asked to make a kahlua filling to go inside the cake! It is due tomorrow!! Any advice guys? I will be glad to get this one done!
TIA,
Tanya
There's a kahlua raspberry cream filling recipe on this site. It's under fillings. That's a start. I cant imagine why not mix berries right into the cake- I do it all the time with muffins/cupcakes.
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