Okay. I got my FIRST order off of my website! Yippie! But, I need help. Here's her request:
"I am turning 40 on Sunday and my husband will be out of town and I'm kinda bummed; so, I decided to buy myself a wonderful cake just for me. I want that white, REALLY sweet frosting that gets crusty if it sits out. The kind that's almost WAY too sweet. I want all light colors because I don't like tinted frosting taste. I want a white cake and I like cake mix cakes. I want a small round old-fashioned looking cake with flowers and maybe some pink. I want it to say Happy Birthday Melissa. Just do what you think would be good."
So, I'm thinking that I should make a doctored white cake mix with an All-crisco buttercream. She said that she likes the "common wedding cake" white frosting, so that's why I think that's the one. I would normally not use that kind, but she was very specific on the type.
I can make roses, kind of. Anyone have a good old-fashioned looking round cake with flowers and room for writing?
THANKS!
I'm sure there are better examples in CC than this, but here's the one I made for my daughter.....
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=indydebi&cat=0&pos=11
are you sure she's not talking about royal icing??? it gets pretty crunchy sometimes..... and it's really really sweet - especially compared with buttercream...... you may want to clarify - just in case. Royal was the first thing that came to my mind.....
that cake indydebi had the photo of is very nice. There's a lot of really pretty cakes on here that are simple with a few flowers..... it's kinda sad she's buying her own birthday cake though - so maybe add a few fun touches of "flare" 
Good luck!
Hmmm...she may mean royal icing. But, can you frost an entire cake with royal icing? Or, should I just make the roses with royal icing?
She ate some of the Power Rangers Cupcake Cake that I made and it had regular buttercream and she said that she liked it, but wanted something sweeter. She said that it gets crunchy kinda like the kind I used on the ccc. ???
I will call her to clarify. I met her at the party where the ccc was served and the host gave her my web address. I'm surprised that she actually called!
I really want her to feel special since its her 40th and her hubby is gone. I'm charging plenty, so I can pretty much do whatever to make it special.
Derby--I really believe she's talking about a simple crusting buttercream. It's cloyingly sweet, (especially if you put extra almond in there) and gets "kind of crunchy" if it's left to sit out.
Royal would be more than just "kinda" crunchy if left to sit out--it'd be downright stale tasting!
--Knox--
All of you are awesome! I LOVE indydebi's cake! I think that I can use that design combined with my latest mini-wedding cake and come up with something. I'll use pale pink roses and all-crisco buttercream (subject to confirming with the client).
Any other design examples/ideas?
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS MANY REPLIES....IT HELPS ME SOOOO MUCH!
Check out this cake by Cakemommy . . . it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw the words "old fashioned" in your request. I love how she did the doily on this cake and NOTHING says old fashioned more than a doily. You could do roses instead of violets.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=cakemommy&cat=0&pos=130
maybe something like one of these cake
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_120093.html
still havent learn to make link right
found it looking under 50th
I did this one for an 80th, its covered in fondant but would look just as nice in BC and for any age!
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=sweet_as_tisse&cat=0&pos=38
the lady that ordered it was looking for an old fashioned style cake (which i dont do) but this is what i came up with and she was very happy with it..
HTH
kylie
You can cover an entire cake with royal icing - the English do it all the time - Australians too I believe - ooh and Spanish/ Latin America seems to do it a lot...... so it is done. And it doesn't end up stale or rock hard.....so they say I haven't actually done it myself...... just didn't have a reason to do so.
As far as old fashioned, I think she just means she doesn't want anything really elaborate or fondant covered or really fancy..... more like just piped designs vs. cutouts & figures and such.
Good luck!
What came to mind when I read your post is something like the Wilton Course II cake, with the basketweave on the sides, rope border and tons of flowers cascading down the side. I don't have a pic of mine but I've seen dozens of them on here, do you know what I mean? Or even just a spray of roses on the top with basketweave on the sides...
Thank you all SO much! Here it is! She LOVED it, nasty frosting and all!!! I appreciate all of your input that helped me with this.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_159723.html
You didn't make her a cake - you made her a memory.
It's just like I won't get rid of all my old records just because I have them on CD. There are times when I want to spread them out all over the living room and have a wonderful time reading the cases; hearing the fuzzyness; remembering why this one has a scratch right at THAT place in the song...
Your cake fulfilled that desire for your customer...
OH! I forgot to tell y'all that I delivered the cake on Saturday and she called last night to thank me for the cake. She said that they had so much fun with it and it made her day.
It was her 40th birthday and her husband was out of town (and I got the drift that she doesn't like him much), so she wanted to treat herself.
So, I'm happy!
I totally attached the wrong picture to my earlier post . . . and it won't let me edit it. This is the picture I meant to post. Hopefully it willl work because I have no idea how I got the wrong pic. in the first place!
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=cakemommy&cat=0&pos=132
I was going to show someone else that picture so to make it easier to find, I just came to this post and was going to copy the link from here. Then, I clicked on it and saw a fish cake! So totally not what this topic was about. I felt really stupid when I saw that. I still don't know how I managed to copy the wrong link!
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