Wire In Cake Claification Question
Decorating By Lemonydoodles Updated 10 Aug 2007 , 11:46pm by leily
I am needing to clarify what I have read over and over on here. I am wanting to place a wire topper on my daughter's b-day cake. I have read varying opinions on how to "safely" stick the wires into the cake. I am most interested in coating the wires in chocolate and letting the chocolate harden. Is the something that any of you have done? I don't want to wrap my wires in plastic & I hate the idea of sticking a bunch of coffee stirrers in the cake (it is only a 6 in. round & I have about 15 wire flowers to stick in there). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Seriously how fast can wire start to rust inside a cake? These will be inside the cake for approximately 1 1/2 at most....so, I am tempted to just stick them in without any coating (as they will be removed before the cake is cut). Thanks to all!
~Christa
It isn't a matter of the wire rusting, so much as it is getting little flecks of metal in the cake, and someone eating it, or the metal being toxic.
The chocolate may work, I'm not sure, but the coffee stirrers really are a good idea. Especially, if children will be eating the cake. The straws are very small, and wouldn't tear up the cake. I'd rather remove 15 straws, than have to worry about whether or not there is metal in my cake.
Good luck!
Holly
Thanks ladies for your responses. I will more likely just end up doing the stirrers, but I need to find some "food safe" wire....is there such a thing? Thanks!
I've tried sticking the wire right into the sides of a cake and it wasn't sturdy. The flowers didn't stay where I placed them. The top of the cake might be a different story, but the next time I had to stick something on wires into a cake I used cocktail straws and it held what I needed it to perfectly.
Thanks ladies for your responses. I will more likely just end up doing the stirrers, but I need to find some "food safe" wire....is there such a thing? Thanks!
Food safe wire would be stainless steel. All stainless steels are considered food safe.
Do not get anything that is carbon steel wire. not all Carbon Steels are created equal. The ones that knifes are made out of are a special kind. There are more carbon steels that are NOT food safe than there are.
Stick with stainless. I get my stainless steel wire from a welding store. It is called TIG wire. It is used for welding. But you can get it in 1/32", 1/16", and 1/8" diameters. It is about 30" in length and already straight so you can cut it if needed. (not with scissors but with pliers or wire cutters)
You can also find stainless wire in the craft section that some people use for making jewlery. The stuff I have found is typically already rolled so I have to straighten it out some which takes some time, but it will go straighter.
HTH
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