Okay, I want to do a cake for my local fair. I can only one cake, only one divison. The judges will be eating the cake, so I don't want to do fondant. Also, it can't have any inedible decorations....so this means no ribbon or fresh flowers. The only flowers I can make are Calla Lillies.
How would calla lilles look on a chocolate cake with white scroll work and white lilles? Or make a cream colored cake with white scroll design and calla lilles? Any other ideas would be great! Thanks!
I think the white lillies on the chocolate cake would look very elegant.
Personally I'm not crazy about brown colored cakes they just dont seem to catch my eye as much as a colored cake would.
I think more along the lines of a nice pastel green or a lovely lilac or even a nice cream the color of the inside of the flower. I agree a monogram would also be nice. Just my opinion
A monogram would be lovely! For a really dark chocolate icing recipe try the one on the back of the Hershey's can. It's very loovely dark colour and VERY good!
I think this design looks lovely. Have you thought of making your Calla Lilies a color instead though. Maybe a pale pink and have your accents be pink as well on a nice dark chocolate. You could add an extra sparkle by using some petal dust on the flowers and luster or pearl dust on the accents in a matching color. Just a couple ideas.
The chocolate syrup recipe on this site comes out nice and dark. Or use the extra dark hersheys cocoa in your normal recipe for a super dark color. I used the chocolate syrup recipe made with the extra dark cocoa in this cake and didn't have to add any brown coloring:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=503003
yummy
What about reversing the design and using dark chocolate accents on white?
that's what i was thinking too!
oh, oh, oh, there's one on the all time favorites right now that is a great idea, half chocolate half white...here's the link in case it's gone when you read this
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-22262.html
Here's a link to one that I like. Of course you would have to omit the ribbons and maybe add some other designs to compensate:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=473123
I just posted these links to someone looking for calla lilly wedding cakes maybe they can give you some ideas.
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here you go hope these help
http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....&pid=28968
http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....&pid=39142
http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....pid=149333
http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....pid=443743
http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....pid=748723
darcat- Your links aren't working for me? Am I the only one? I get a 404 error saying they don't exist?
I can't get them to work either.
Euphoriabakery, I like that cake.
I had thought about changing it to guilting and pearls on the bottom, swirls on the middle with the mongram, but the top tier is the one I can't figure out. Would you just do dots on top? I don't want to repeat the quilting because I'm going to another shape, square then the rounds.
You can also search for Calla lily and get a bunch of pics. I guess it can be spelled either way.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&meta=search&type=full&search=calla+lily
or cala lily
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&meta=search&type=full&search=cala+lily
You can try other combos of spellings as well
How about having the top have dots in a teardrop pattern going around like I did on the bottom tier of this cake:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=30728
Or you could just have the top tier match the pattern on the middle tier so the rounds are the same.
How about having the top have dots in a teardrop pattern going around like I did on the bottom tier of this cake:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=30728
Or you could just have the top tier match the pattern on the middle tier so the rounds are the same.
I think the darker chocolate idea would work great. I wouldn't use white for decorations but an off white. If I were gonna put a monogram on it, I would put it on an oval possibly using the chocolate color for the lettering. and minimal, if any, decorations on the tier with the monogram.
I can't wait to see the finished item!
How about having the top have dots in a teardrop pattern going around like I did on the bottom tier of this cake:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=30728
Or you could just have the top tier match the pattern on the middle tier so the rounds are the same.
I think using dots in a pattern would look nice on the top tier.
antonia74's beautiful cake is a perfect example
http://www.cakecentral.com/themes/cake/forums/images/spacer.gif
here is the godiva buttercream from epicurious. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/109248
How about black icing with pink accents an the a pink calla lily? I saw it on the food channel for cruise weddings I think?
It was beautiful.
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