Grooms Cake Incorporating Many Interests.
Decorating By sun33082 Updated 16 Sep 2007 , 12:57am by AlamoSweets
I have a bride who wants a grooms cake that will incorporate many interests of the groom and some of the bride. It won't be served at the wedding, it will be served at the rehearsal dinner.
She printed off many different images to give me an idea. There are items like a coffee cup, a labyrinth, a stork, eagle scout medal, logo of the church they attend, and a few others I can't think of at the moment. Some of these things are too detailed for me to sculpt out of fondant or pipe into a cake, so I suggested I could do gumpaste plaques with the images on those and have those leaning against the side of the cake, stuck in the top, etc (it's just a double layer sheet cake). First I said I could do the images using edible images. I've never done those before and I'd have to buy them, and was worried about messing them up. Then I thought of rice paper, printing onto it with regular ink, and attaching that to the plaque, that way the ink isn't touching the cake and if I mess one up I can reprint it. Then I thought well if I'm already using regular ink, why am I bothering with rice paper? I could just print the images on regular paper, attach that to the gumpaste plaque, and again, nothing non-edible is touching the cake.
What do you all think? Should I go with my final thought? are there other ideas? I thought about mixing it up by piping some things, sculpting some things, and doing the plaques for others, but was worried it would look wrong and maybe I should be consistent.
Ok this is super long. Any ideas and suggestions would be great! Thanks!
To tell you the truth edible images on frosting sheets are your most easy and fastest decorating tool for a cake like this. All of the images the bride provided and perhaps adding images of the couple (baby pics even). I have done birthday and anniversary cakes using this method and they can be found in my images. They are super easy and if you are using white buttercream as the frosting it is just a matter of printing, cutting, applying and piping an edge.
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