Creative Ideas Needed For This Weekend's Cake!!
Decorating By Crystal13 Updated 10 Aug 2007 , 2:51pm by i_heart_pastry
Hi everyone - am hoping to gain some ideas from everyone's creative minds! I have a cake for this Sunday to feed about 15 people. They are leaving the design up to me, but this is what I was told about the lady and somethings they'd like to incorporate....doves (logo for her business), stars (logo for a program she's involved in), she is an RN, a mother of triplets and has a pilot license...oh and she is turning 50. So.....any creative ideas out there please!!!!
base looks like clouds (sheet w/ poofy icing)
then carved airplane flying above the clouds
make it one of those old fashioned open cockpit planes that has place for passenger behind pilot
this one has been modified for 3 passengers.
on wires (ala duff) -- doves and stars.
not sure how to do it --- dove ala police officer holding up "Speed limit = 50" sign?
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50 and flyin' high
Sounds like a super women. A couple of ideas. 1- a superwoman cake with doves holding up her cape on the cape it says Happy Birthday. ON her head have a nurses hat. Make a star border around cake. THis is her birthday I don't think I'd put the kids on it. also goggles for the plane thing. 2- have a plain cake with her in the cockpit with a banner out the back of cake or banner swung around beneath the plain with happy birthday and doves holding the banner, with a star border.
I always think to hard so this is what I came up with in the two seconds of reading your post I could probably come up with somehting better, but as it is I'm sure your ideas through the thoughts on the post will be better.
How about a round cake with doves & stars on the sides (cut from fondant). On top, a plane made from fondant or gumpaste with a fondant pilot figure wearing a nurse's uniform (the old ones with the white hat for the sake of being recognizable). Have the pilot waving, and on the "ground" have three child figures waving back (for the triplets). Decorate each wing of the plane with a "50".
You might just win the award for having the cake with the most simultaneous themes! 
Bec
re: airplane --- it's basically the shape of a cross.
so make a cross shape (either w/ wilton cross pan or but cutting and stacking sheet cake)
and then round off edges for wings
taper the tail.
add the tail fin and wings (duff does this w/ foamboard)
and then lay on the icing and fondant.
in this case plane would sit right on base sheet cake and you wouldn't have to build any kind of visible support.
I love these ideas - any suggestions on making/carving an airplane? Not one I've done before.
I can give some advice if you were making a plane from fondant/gumpaste. First, pick a design (if you google "toy plane" and hit the image tab, you'll get some good examples to model after - I like the very first blue & red image, it looks pretty easy). Then just model each part of the plane separately. For any parts that you need two of (like the wings), make one, then roll it back into a ball & roll a second ball of the same size. Then make them back into wings (for me, this is the easiest way to make sure that "matching parts" are the same size). Right after you make them, stick a couple of toothpicks into the place where they'll connect to the body of the plane. Let all the pieces dry, then attach them to the body of the plane with the toothpicks & a tiny bit of water, which will act as glue. Since it's for Sunday, you may want to use gumpaste or add some gumtex to your fondant (to make it dry more quickly). Hope that made sense. If you go this route, you're welcome to pm me if you have any questions!
Can't wait to see a pic!
Bec
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