What Do You Think Of This Design?
Decorating By TERRYHORTON Updated 6 Aug 2006 , 4:19pm by TERRYHORTON
Hi guys. I found this on the net....(dont remember where/when).
Does anyone have any idea how to attempt this? WHat type of structure this is? It is very unique and of course if I were to attempt it I would change things to suit myself. Comments?
oh wow that's cool.... so much could be done from this spiral theme.
I would imagine there is a dowel from centre of top to bottom.
That would be fun to play with so thanks for posting it...
Any ideas on how to do the backdrop? Seems it would be support and decoration......mmmm
Thanks for sharing...PAT
If you, or someone you know is handy, you could make a simple set of stairs out of clear pieces of plexiglass, or even wood. All your cakes will be on boards and the front half of each cake would be stacked on the lower tier,(supported by dowels, of course) so each step would support the back of each cake.
I have no idea what they used for the sides, but I'm sure there is some kind of flexible but sturdy material that you could bend to shape, then it looks like they might have wrapped the inside in fondant, but I can't tell what they used for the outside.
Anyway, maybe this will spawn some ideas. It's a gorgeous cake. Good luck!
My very first paid cake was in that style! Only the bottom 2 cakes are real, the top 3 are styrofoam dummies. They were easy to "attach" to the real cakes by gluing them together with royal icing and then driving a wooden dowel down the 3rd cake into the 2 real cakes beneath it.
Hi guys. I found this on the net....(dont remember where/when).
Does anyone have any idea how to attempt this? WHat type of structure this is? It is very unique and of course if I were to attempt it I would change things to suit myself. Comments?
Terry
This is one of Mike McCarey's cakes (From Mike's Amazing Cakes) maybe you should email him and ask him what the backdrop is done with.
Here is the website where that picture came from
http://www.mikesamazingcakes.com/about.html
cheers
Nati
I reckon the backdrop would be made from pastillage rolled out fairly thickly, but into the required shapes and left to dry on a suitably shaped thing - I usually bend and tape card to the shape I want and let stuff dry draped over it. I actually don't think that would be too hard to do. It's a basic stacked cake with two large curved pieces and some flat rectangular pieces - but it looks very striking how it's been assembled. I hope you have a good crack at doing this and I look forward to seeing your results - I know you can do it!
any guesses as to what size rounds are used?
it seems at least 3" are offset.....16 14 10 6 ?
hmmmmm........
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