Help!!! Sos!!! Charm Cake?!?
Decorating By PerryStCakes Updated 15 Nov 2006 , 5:27pm by PerryStCakes
I know I have seen a few photos of this kind of cake before...But I don't know where...I know it has to do with ribbons and bows.
Now I have a client asking for one for FRIDAY!!! HELP! Please!
Love you guys!
-Debbie
i think i need a charm cake - for the bridesmaids
I have seen a few of these also. Check out this link.
http://www.sneakycatbakery.homestead.com/charmcakes.html
You live in New York so hopefully you should be able to find someplace that carries them, if it was me I would never be able to pull it off by Friday since I live in the hicks.
Good luck.
Edited to add:
http://www.cakepulls.com/sample.htm
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel1669
Is this what you mean?
There is a cake on this website that I saw. I typed in bridal shower. Its a picture of an umbrella with little gift boxes(which is cake also) and each one of them has a charm attached. I think it is adorable. Let me know if you can't find it and I will e-mail it to you.
You are very creative and your cakes are awesome, you'll be fine. Just get some charms from your local craft store and tie different color ribbons onto them. Once you have figured out the cake you are going to make, design as usualy and at the end use a skewer to stick the charms into the cake. The charm gets pushed in and the ribbon sticks out. This is done all around the cake and then at the event different people pull the charms out....
The cake design can be anything....
I know this may sound kind of stupid, but you could print out various pictures (Google Image search for Charm Cakes) and show them to her and ask her if this is what she is interested in. Explain to her that you are willing to fill her order and request but you are sorry and embarassed to admit you've never done one before. Or that you just need to know EXACTLY what she is looking for with this and you could fudge it a bit and tell her that you've seen them done so many different ways you just need to know how SHE wants it done. 
Hope this helps and good luck hun!
you're going to go to www.riogrande.com or www.firemountaingems.com and order the charms overnight. Make your customer pay for that expense, of course. Then you're going to tie a ribbon to the charms, put them on a cake board, and put your fabulous cake on top. You need to order the charms right away, but you can pull it off.
I run a bridal accessories business and have dealt with both of these companies regularly. Rio Grande in particular is always very fast and accurate, and has good prices (for the quantities you want). It would be easier to order if you already had the catalogs... but the phone operators are helpful and should be able to get you what you need.
Here are two different charm cakes that I found on here.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-78544.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo-29145.html
Personnaly if the client wanted the cake with charms she needs to get the charms to you. I don't furnish the charms but I have done the decorations on the cake to include them.
the charm cakes i've made, the brides buy the charms and ribbon and bring them in to me,
i decorate whatever they want...and poke the charms into the sides with the ribbons exposed...
The charm cakes I have seen basically have charms on a ribbon. Ica a cake aplace charm on the cake board. Place cake on top of charms. They pull the charms to reveal what they have. Hope this helps.
Also depending on the charms be sure to check the lead content. Most charms are made without lead but some companies still sell them with amounts of lead in them.
Thank you for all of your help! I could not have done this without you. The finished charm cake is now in my photos on this site.
The client bought the charms and delivered them to me. THANK YOU CC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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