I Am Stumped For Ideas For Something "english"
Decorating By drurys Updated 1 Oct 2006 , 9:26pm by edencakes
Hi All
So I have a cake order for next week for a cake, for a party, where the guest of honor is coming from England. Therefore she wants something pertaining to his country...
I was thinking: Castle, London bridge, Big Ben, Stonehenge, etc....
Wish I could find something great to work off of..
Any ideas?
Much appreciated!
Thanks
For ideas you can look at www.enjoyengland.com. It has a traveling slide show with more photos under each, if you click on one of them. There are many scenes and you can look at a lot of stuff really quickly.
Although, I liked the idea of the shapes of both the US and England with a line leading to the US.
Good Luck! Hope we get to see a photo.
sports theme:
cricket -- the equipment on a field
rugby -- jersey and the ball
(could even do his fav. team if can find out)
drinking theme: this fav. ale (bottle/can)
or a big mug or glass of "generic" ale -- tho could "brand" it by making a coaster w/ logo of his fav on it.
mythic theme: Camelot castle, the sword in the stone, anything w/ merlin (or even Harry Potter)
Shakespeare theme: all the world's a stage -- glad you've come on tour to the "colonies"
history theme w/ a snide little twist -- "Tell king george the answer is STILL NO!" -- or -- Bewildered traveler asking "Where's the tea party I heard you were having?"
a "manly" tea set
if scottish -- golf or anything from any event of the highland games (tossing the caber anyone?) -- bagpipe -- kilt in his family pattern
Oi watch it socake.
Seriously we aren't as patriotic over here as you guys seem to be. What seems to go down best on a celebration cake for us is a personalised message on the top just something like "welcome Joe Bloggs". A nice piped border and a few trimmings in the corners, things like the strip of his favourite team (if you can find it out), a few flowers or just something pertaining to his hobbies.
Also I need to point out the Union Jack is NOT the english flag. It's the UK flag. The english flag is teh St. George Flag. A white background with a red cross on it
Hmmmm, well, as someone who is English, I would say typically English things are: cricket, rugby, beer (Real Ale - not that cat's p*** European lager nonsense!) HP or Daddy's sauce (you could do a cake shaped like a bottle of those!), fish and chips, tea, pubs, bowling (on a green, not 10 pin!), or if you want to get really ambitious St George & the dragon!
I wouldn't bother doing anything palying on the whole colonial/independance thing - you guys care far more about that than we could ever be bothered with - really! Similarly, London Bridge, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament or anything London related are so touristy and London specific that I wouldn't bother with any of those either - unless he hails from London itself!
The 2 countries with a plane flying between the 2 (heading towards the USA), is a nice idea - but find out exactly where he comes from in England and then find out where it is on the map - it WILL matter!
Good luck, can't wait to see what you come up with!
Also I need to point out the Union Jack is NOT the english flag. It's the UK flag. The english flag is teh St. George Flag. A white background with a red cross on it
If this was directed at me, I never meant to imply that it was. KHalstead had already suggested the English flag, I was just trying to give an alternative suggestion.
Also I need to point out the Union Jack is NOT the english flag. It's the UK flag. The english flag is teh St. George Flag. A white background with a red cross on it
If this was directed at me, I never meant to imply that it was. KHalstead had already suggested the English flag, I was just trying to give an alternative suggestion.
No it wasn't pointed directly at anyone. If it appeared that I was I do apologise and I hope you didn't take offence. I just know whenever I travel anywhere or watch sporting events where England is playing (as opposed to the UK) 99% of the time the Union Jack is used instead of St. Georges Flag so I just wanted to make sure if a flag was used it was the correct one. A lot of people don't realise every country in the UK has their own flag as well as the UNion JAck
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