Cactus Cake Questions................
Decorating By cakeatopia Updated 20 Oct 2006 , 4:48pm by cakeatopia
I'd REALLY like to make this cake for the fall festival this weekend. "Looks" like something I could do, but need to know realistically how hard this cake is. I used to think the character pan with the "starring technique" was too hard and then I tried it--time consuming but really not "hard".
I have the mini ball pan, oreos, even piped the royal stickers.
I am dieing to try this cake and hopefully have everyone "ooooh and ahh" at what I can do(lol). Also have a few dozen cupcakes to do but those should be simple--bake, ice and drop some drop flowers on them(I have excess so I am trying to use them up).
Anyone do this cake? Simple enough? Anything I am missing?
This became a really long post--sorry!
Do you have a photo of the cake? Otherwise, I have no idea as to what cake you are talking about. Now I am dying to see it! LOL 
Do you have a photo of the cake? Otherwise, I have no idea as to what cake you are talking about. Now I am dying to see it! LOL
If you go to the galleries and do a search for "cactus cake" or maybe just "cactus"-there are a bunch of them. I think it is such a different looking cake that I think it is pretty. I think it is a Collete Peters cake. I don't have any "REAL" decorator books(YET) since I am a novice/beg here so I am relying on CC people to give me some hints.
If I can do the cake right, I think people I know would love it. And want one. Not ready for a business yet but I'd like to do some for practice.
I know this cake - it's in the 'easy' section of one of Colette's books and is one I've thought about doing too - I reckon the only hard bit would be the pot that the cactus is sitting in - but you could make it shorter and fatter to make that a bnit easier, or even sit the cake in a real terracotta plant pot. Good luck!
Thanks ladies. I made a bunch the other day--wasn't sure how long soo I made a bunch of diff sizes and figured I would break them if too long. I was thinking I had to shove the needles into the CAKE part, but now thinking maybe just use very thick buttercream. I will use the 32 tip. I would have gone with the Ateco 32-like one(they were out of the Wilton 32) but did not want to use the large coupler--waiting on new bags.
I think I will make the cupcakes and see how much time I have. I have baked probably 8doz cookies(with fondant and royal) for this Fall fest. I have put many hours in the oven!
But I loooove this stuff. I am an addict for sure!
Thanks again(and men too---sorry forgot to say men and ladies!!)
I just love this place.
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