I am doing a wedding cake in a couple of months and the bridre wants a 3 tier cake with the "floating" pillars and red roses in between the tiers. I have never done this before. How do you place ALL of those roses in the cake? That's a lot of roses!
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What I would do is just cut the stem to the desired length and start laying them down with the stem inside and the rose towards the outside of the cake...The you just keep layering them until you get to the bottom of the next tier! Should be very pretty!
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There are several ways. Some you can just put in between close enough that they will stay. I don't trust that, because I had a fellow cake decorator tell me that they did that once and the client called and complained because sometime before the cake was cut someone played with the flowers, pulled one out and several fell out. I wasn't her fault because the cake was fine when she left, but that wasn't the kind of thing I wanted to worry about, so when I had a wedding cake order like that I used floral foam to hold the flowers in.
The client wanted real flowers, so I got some of the floral foam blocks that you soak in water (I can't remember the name, but I know Walmart carries them now). You'll want to put a plastic tray (or something like it) underneath the blocks (and you might want to put dowels under the tray depending on how heavy the blocks are when wet. Since I made a narrow ring, instead of using solid blocks I didn't need to). Figure out how big of a tray you'll need to fit inside of the pillars, especially if you're using cake plates that don't allow you to choose where to place the pillars. I cut the blocks to form a squareish ring (square cake) about 1 inch thick (and make sure it's short enough to fit in the space between the tiers!).
Soak the blocks the night before according to directions on the package (some take hours, so check early!)
When you assemble the cake, put the foam block tray on before the next tier (make sure there isn't extra water in the tray, you don't want the cake cutter spilling on the cake!). Then add the flowers. This way you have a base to support the flowers and it keeps them fresh. And if time is an issue, you could also do the flower arrangments ahead of time then just place them on the cake as you assemble. Just be aware of where your pillars will fit.
Hope this helps!
Bob Ross was fabulous! Reminds me of a lot of cake decorators, he makes great works of art look so easy!
i'm putting fresh roses on a cake tomorrow
(square 8" single tier torted with wafer rolls around the outside and roses piled on top)
and since i couldn't find a square tray, i'm thinking about using Glad Press N Seal around the wet foam - what do you think?
i've never tried this press N seal stuff before - is it reliable enough to put on cake?
That might work. The press and seal stuff is a lot thicker than regular plastic wrap, and it makes a pretty good seal on most surfaces. I don't think it will stick to the floral foam, but it should stick to itself pretty well if you fold it over on the corners. Play with it and see how stable it is. Good Luck!
ok, so i did a test piece to see if it was leak proof
FABULOUS stuff i must say!
this would be the only way i do it from now on
i cut a 3"sq. piece of foam about .5" thick then cut my pressnseal 8x4 so i could fold it over and seal the edges to themselves - kind of like a perogy (if you know how to make those! LOL). it seals like a charm...LOVE it!!!!
now i just have to put dowels in the cake to support the foam - its SUPER heavy when it's saturated.
They also make those little mini-vases that you're supposed to stick into the cake itself....water in them and the stem goes in. Without enough water, the flowers will wilt and look terrible in the few hours between the time you set them up and the time the reception occurs (at least, that's what happened at my own wedding!), so keeping them moist is vital. If they come from the florist in individual little bottoms with water in them, you might just leave them in those and arrange them in a circle (buds out, obviously) such that nothing shows on the inside. You could wire them together or just set them where they belong on the cake (because nobody ought to be touching it anyway...how rude!). Good luck!
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