Help to all you experts out there....

I have a catering company that I work closely with and he loves to challenge me (see the almost 3 foot tall wine bottle in my pics - he's the culprit). Anyways, we are doing a baby shower this weekend that I'm doing mini cakes for. I've done this design in the past, but used real vellum scrapbooking paper to wrap them in. It's really cute - well here's the challenge - he wants the entire thing to be edible so he wants to wrap them in rice paper!!! I feel 'ok' about it, but what would you guys recommend to use to adhere them to the iced cake and not have issues with drying or cracking? The cakes will be rounds - just to add more complications!

HELP HELP HELP!!!

wow, I can't even imagine !!!! do you have a photo of the ones you wrapped in velum so I can get a better idea??? How on earth would you wrap a round piece of cake in rice paper? I haven't worked with rice paper so I don't know how flexible it is.....but I thought it was kind of stiff??

It's surprising that he wants you to use rice paper. Have you ever tasted it? Bleck!! It's also very stiff and will more than likely crack or break. If you try to soften it, then it will shrivel, melt and be really gross.

Rice paper has a lot of good uses, but I don't think wrapping cakes is one of them.

Michele

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Have you seen this cake, is all wrapped in rice paper. May be you could PM her for instruccions?
Hope this helps

Here's pictures of the finished product. It actually went pretty well. I used corn syrup to 'seal' them. The cakes were covered in poured fondant and then the grass is just buttercream icing. Then the leaves are chocolate fondant. I think they turned out pretty good - I'm pleased with them.

well, guess I can't figure out the attachment thing! Look in my photos - they're there

oh those are soo cool looking......okay I was thinking you wanted to use the rice paper to wrap them up, like a little present.........I didn't realize you meant you were just wrapping it around the sides of the cakes...........those are just incredible!!!! Who would have though camo could look THIS cool!!!???? Awesome job!!! I had no doubt you were up for the job after seeing that wine bottle cake.......crazy!!

if I had understood before I probably would have suggested chocolate to wrap the cakes.......but that would have caused you a TON of work with all the camo!!! well I guess if you could have gotten ahold of some choc. transfer sheets with camo onthem.......but it seems you were ready to go ahead and make them.......awesome job by the way!!! You'll blow them all away!!!