I know that poppies are the flower, tiger eye is the gem, willow pottery is the traditional, and leather is the modern.

I have been asked to do a 9th wedding anniversary cake, and I can do anything I want, but I am stumped! Does anyone have any ideas. I looked in the gallery, but that just got a little overwhelming.

Please help!
Carrie

I was came up with two things...

A heart with scroll work (white on white or red on white) all over it and then two or three gumpaste (if you have time/if they are paying you) or silk poppies sitting on top that says Happy 9th Anniversary.

OR

A small two tiered round cake with icing poppies up the sides, and then a chocolate tranfer that says H. 9th A. sticking up from the top like a wedding topper.

how about something about "Cloud 9"

anyone know how to do icing POPPIES?

Would it look dumb to do a stacked tier cake, but single layer...like 6" single layer on 8" single layer. They only want for about 10-15 people.

Can't help you much with the icing poppies, I would probably do red fan shapes with stems, and then a few open ones with black insides. If you look at some pics on google, you can get a good idea of what they look like...

I don't think you should do a single layer tiered cake. It will look like you just took a shortcut. I would go ahead and make an 8x6 normal tiered cake, that way they have some to take home. It always looks better to give extra cake then not enough.