Help! Bride Wants Round Cake Sections Iced As Mini Cakes...
Decorating By DreamCakesOnline Updated 24 Sep 2009 , 12:59am by sadsmile
Need to find someone who has had this request before... Bride is asking for a six tier cake with the bottom four tiers cut into sections and iced individually like mini-cakes that will fit back together. It sounds deceptively easy but I'm afraid the narrow ends of the slices will be a major problem to ice with anything except maybe pourable fondant. Any tips/ideas/pictures would be greatly appreciated!
Oh, no no no no! She basically wants you to pre-slice and ice each piece of cake individually? That would be a freakin' nightmare, there's no way I'd do that. Tell her that you can do individual cakes, and each one is $20 each! So how many cakes would four large wedding cake tiers make? Times $20 each....hmmm, that's a good paycheck for a week's work. I still wouldn't do it.
Deceptively easy?! I don't get deceptively easy, I get straight up DIFFICULT! I would do it...for $7500...it is 4 tiers. GOOD LUCK! And if you do do it, please let me see the pictures.
I dunno..."bottom four tiers"???? And she said "cut into sections"....
Nope...impossible. The icing would stick together and there's absolutely no way.
Tell her to just find a person to serve the cake for her. haha. That or order mini cakes. Sounds like alot of mini cake though...five tiers!!!!
I hope her budget is generous!
Does she want something like this:
http://www.angelcakesbyvirginiavalentine.co.uk/cakesliceboxes_1.html
This is a wedding cake made out of precut slices in slice shaped boxes.... but the slices are not completely iced, just nicely cut out of cake....maybe she saw a photo like that and thought it was iced cake when really its cardboard boxes.
When I read it, I thought the same thing as kitagirl .... the sliced individually boxed up to LOOK like a pre-cut wedding cake.
Otherwise, if she REALLY wants a pre-cut wedding cake, send her down the road. Or tell her it will cost a million dollars.
(I did that a couple of times in my corporate life. We would no-bid a project and the purchasing guy would come back and tell me he had to have 3 quotes so I HAD to bid. I told him my bid was "no-bid". He persisted. "Fine," I said. "Our bid for one power cord is a million dollars."
he shut up.)
i went to a wedding where the cake was as in the picture, idividual cake slices in boxes, the cake inside was chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and a couple of small roses no frosting on the sides
I don't see how a pre-sliced cake would be structurally sound UNLESS it was, as in the link above, pre-boxed. Seriously, how would you dowel such a thing? The inner part would be so sliced up that it would crumble all over the place!
Honestly, this sounds like a bride who has NO CLUE about cake. I'd RUN away from this one.
if, and i mean IF you decide to try it, as it was addressed regarding keeping all the pieces together perhaps a ribbon of fondant wrapped around the base to keep them all tucked in.. then have the plates for each tier- the legs placed strategically between the slices, hope this makes sense. still not as structurally sound as a solid cake but gives options.
again, hope this makes sense
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