Cancelled Order And Need To Use Cake
Decorating By Polkadot79 Updated 2 Aug 2009 , 12:50am by Polkadot79
I had a request for a cake in a luau theme, so I was making a tall 10 inch round cake that was going to resemble a grass skirt...with hibiscus flowers on top, fondant grass draping all on sides, and sand on board. The customer decided she didn't want to spend as much as I was requesting on the cake, so I now have 4 10 inch rounds. I do have another order this weekend for my brother's birthday. The design is up to me just so it has the Ford logo and several other brands of tools' logos/replicas on it. I was planning to do a red toolbox with the logos as stickers all over the toolbox. My dilemma is the toolbox is rectangular and my layers are round that I have baked. I'm not big on freezing, so I would rather adjust and use the rounds. Any ideas on how I can incorporate the idea with the rounds and still have a creative cake?
Good idea...he's a plumber, so all I could see in my head was a big toilet seat. 
Not going to happen! I think I will go with that idea. Maybe even 2 or 3 tires kinda stacked on top of each other. Thanks!
Doug, you're a freakin' genius!! (I was going to suggest a beer can.)
ford? tools?
TIRES!
and the logo is on the middle of wheel cover
the fondant tools are laying around
logos could be splashed all over the board (or if for things like oil, etc. on little fondant replicas)
LOVE this idea. Great save!
Well you could cut the round sides off of about 3 cakes and make a rectangular cake and make a tool box handle out of one of the round sides you cut out. Then you could use some of the cut off parts to make some tools. then use the fourth cake to do the logos from the tool companies. THe cake would still be somewhat high and sure it might be shorter than the normal tool box, but come-on they need to use some imagination too. I think that they would not even notice that it was shorter than usual. Good luck.
Thanks for all the input...great ideas! I did think of cutting the sides off and making squares, but just went with this. I ended up freezing 2 layers.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1426589
Thanks for letting me know...not sure how that happened. I love comments!
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