I have a client (friend) who gave me a HUGE list of things to incorporate into a cake. How can I creatively get all of these onto a cake that only needs to serve 20? I thought maybe a shopping bag with some of these items represented but it's not coming together for me. Here's the list...
Seahorse
Motorboat
Bud Light Lime
Sandals Resort
Horses
Books
Sitting by the pool
Country & popular music
Cosmopolitans
Cooking school
Shopping
2 Dogs
3 Kids
1. is she giving you the list because she wants ALL of the items included, or is she giving you a list of the persons interests so you can pick one or two or more to use in your design.
2. Whenever someone gives me more than three "themes" to include, I tell them you can't really get a cohesive design with that many themes. So either hone it down to two or three, or the design of the cake will just be that it's a cake with a whole bunch of unrelated things on it. They usually pick the former.
Wow...that is a lot going on. What if you just did a 1/2 sheet cake and made it look like a resort theme. Like horses in the sand by the water (ocean), with a boat and seahorse floating in blue water. Then up by the resort, you could have a swimming pool with some drinks, books and shopping bags sitting by some lawn chairs and some dogs and kids playing by the pool.
As for the cooking school and music....I don't know. That's already alot.
I was asked to do a grooms cake that had so many different things going on and they wanted ALL of it to be on the cake....this was the only way I could make it all fit.
What about a scrapbook? you could make an open book and create many of those things as boarder, background, make some 3d popping out and some flat. You could even turn some into pictures on fondant and add them to the scrapbook.
And is she willing to pay for all this artistic endeavor, or is she expecting you do add this in for the same price? I think it's time to whittle down the ideas into her budget.
Theresa 
[quote="oakleygirl77"]Wow...that is a lot going on. What if you just did a 1/2 sheet cake and made it look like a resort theme. Like horses in the sand by the water (ocean), with a boat and seahorse floating in blue water. Then up by the resort, you could have a swimming pool with some drinks, books and shopping bags sitting by some lawn chairs and some dogs and kids playing by the pool.
As for the cooking school and music....I don't know. That's already alot.
IMHO, oakleygirl77 has a great idea,here! Maybe for the cooking school and music part, you could make "magazines" with "Cooking school" and "Music" as the name of the magazine. Just a suggestion. HTH!
In order to make it fit, you might can do a 13x9 to give yourself a little more room, but she would need to be willing to pay for the extra cake. See how she feels about that..... Otherwise, make her trim down to 3-4 items. Wow, you definitely have a challenge! GOOD LUCK!!!!
I think I count 15 items and you say cake for 20 - so maybe you make 20 cupcakes and put one of these items on each cupcake and make a couple of duplicates (???) - Good luck!!!!!
I think that is a great idea!
Thanks for the thoughts everyone. I finally made this cake with lots of things "slapped on the sides." I call it an "everything" cake. Truthfully, these are my least favorite cakes but I ended up happy with how it turned out & my friend loved it. Trying to attach a photo but if it doesn't work, you can view it in my gallery. Thanks again!
I had a customer order a cake for her boyfriend. She wanted all of the following on it:
Spiderman
dumb-bells
Leffe beer bottle
rock music CDs
a lawn mower
a drill
a play station control
and a crown with 'Princess Katie' - because that's his pet name for her.
Oh, and a big number 30.
This is what I came up with:
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1245819
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