I have a cake for a military ball coming up this Friday. I'm attaching the sketch of what I want it to look like. My question is has anyone done a cake with a night sky theme and if so what color did you use to achieve the midnight blue? I'm going to use my airbrush to do this one and I'll be using Americolor colors.


I really need this to turn out well, it's not only a military ball, it's my husband's unit! I'll be attending the ball too, so I don't want to sit there the whole night looking at the cake saying, "Look, that's wrong and this is wrong".

Your help is appreciated

this picture looks like it is shades of royal blue and shades of navy blue.... americolor has these shades.... the two different shades on this cake look really nice... hth

i agree with icer101 on the two shades of blue on the cake. it makes it look more realistic how the night sky fades from a light shade of blue to a dark shade of blue as the night goes on

Agree with the others. It's a cool design!

Very cool design! The colours work so well together.

this might help, i found it in the galleries

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1252984.html

HTH

I haven't personally done these colors, so I can't give you any advice........I just can't WAIT to SEE it when you get it done!!!!!
The sketch is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!

susan

Thank you for all your positive responses. I also paint (impressionist art) so I'm really sensitive about shading and realism. When you look at the night sky it's lighter closer to the earth's atmosphere and gets darker as you go up, so that's the effect I'm trying to recreate.
The soldier on one side represents all the soldiers from the hospital that are downrange and the family on the other side represent the families that are back here waiting for them. They're all looking up at the same star from their respective places in the world.
This is one of those cakes that I would hate to fail at.
scoutmamma: thanks for the link.

don't know if you've been able to check it out in person, but I posted the pic of the real thing on my photos...

Looks great! I was going to post and say I have a dance theme cake in my photos with a navy blue midnight color at the top and lighter at the bottom but your cake turned out super.

Great job!

Great job on the cake!! I have a friend who is at Ft. Bliss also--her husband just got deployed to South Korea and she is staying behind there in Texas.

I did one kind of like that for a bride that wanted the cake going from dark blue to very light. All in buttercream. I used Royal blue and for the darker one I added a drop of black. The lighter I wanted it the more white I added. She wanted the color to be marbeliezed so this is what finally looked.. The ball on the top was made by the bride, she wanted something of hers in the cake..
Edna