30TH ANNIVERSARY CAKE IDEA

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Permalink Reply by June Kowalczyk on February 8, 2013 at 10:36am

Well Ebule

Depends on the size & style of your cake to give a suggestion.  You can't go wrong with a nice silvery metal 3 0. Do you have a Michael's near you? They might have something like that. Or you could create your own template. Go online and see if you can find some fancy letters. Then use that for a idea, or make a template & use gum paste to make your own. Dust in lustre/sparkle dust. 

Hope this helps somewhat.   :o)

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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on February 8, 2013 at 2:51pm

Ebule, I don't know if it's the same where you are, but here, the 30th Wedding Anniversary is Pearl.  So you could cover your numbers in an ivory colour fondant, dust that with a pearl lustre dust.  Make some fondant pearls and edge your numbers with those. If you don't want to make them, buy some cream sugar pearls.  Or do a quilt effect on the fondant and stud that with your pearls a little like this - 

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Permalink Reply by Ebule Stellamaries on February 9, 2013 at 8:34am

Thanks alot for your suggestions.i got hold of this picture from the internet and i'm thinking i should make this.But the champagne bottle is the challenge,how do i make  that.i have attached the picture.Thanks

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Permalink Reply by June Kowalczyk on February 9, 2013 at 8:43am

Very nice Ebule.  The bottle must be relatively small to fit into the "0".  I have never made a bottle, but Katy has. Hopefully Katy will see this post. If not, go on Katy's page: Katy Nott and leave her a message in the comment section at bottome of her page.  :o)

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Permalink Reply by Ebule Stellamaries on February 9, 2013 at 10:10am

Thanks June.will checkout Katy's page

June Kowalczyk said:

Very nice Ebule.  The bottle must be relatively small to fit into the "0".  I have never made a bottle, but Katy has. Hopefully Katy will see this post. If not, go on Katy's page: Katy Nott and leave her a message in the comment section at bottome of her page.  :o)

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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on February 9, 2013 at 2:10pm

Hi Ebule - nice idea, but not easy.  At least, it wasn't for me lol!  You will need to have a real, small champagne bottle to work from, so you will probably have to buy champagne - bummer! (I think this is probably a 25cl size, so not too expensive). 

 You need to grease the bottle liberally with crisco, trex, petal base, or whatever you use where you are.  Then you will shape your gumpaste or modelling paste round half the bottle and leave it to dry, dry, dry.  I suggest a few days so that it is really set hard.  Then you slide it off the bottle and pray it doesn't break.  i had 3 attempts I think with mine before I got anything I was satisfied with.  But I did a 75cl wine bottle, so much bigger.  A small champagne bottle should be easier.  I suggest you colour your gumpaste in a bottle green as dark as you can initially, then you can dust it afterwards with more colour to really deepen it.  I  sprayed mine with clear edible glaze at the end too, to try and make it look more realistic.  

I hope this helps - if you have more questions, do ask and I'll do my best to help you.

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Permalink Reply by Ebule Stellamaries on February 11, 2013 at 7:03am

Hi, Thanks for the tip,though it sounds challenging, but i'd love to give it a try. If i end up doing it i'd post a picture of it,but if not,which i hope would not happen, then i'd think of something else or just do it without the champagne.i'm sure it'd still come out nice

Katy Nott said:

Hi Ebule - nice idea, but not easy.  At least, it wasn't for me lol!  You will need to have a real, small champagne bottle to work from, so you will probably have to buy champagne - bummer! (I think this is probably a 25cl size, so not too expensive). 

 You need to grease the bottle liberally with crisco, trex, petal base, or whatever you use where you are.  Then you will shape your gumpaste or modelling paste round half the bottle and leave it to dry, dry, dry.  I suggest a few days so that it is really set hard.  Then you slide it off the bottle and pray it doesn't break.  i had 3 attempts I think with mine before I got anything I was satisfied with.  But I did a 75cl wine bottle, so much bigger.  A small champagne bottle should be easier.  I suggest you colour your gumpaste in a bottle green as dark as you can initially, then you can dust it afterwards with more colour to really deepen it.  I  sprayed mine with clear edible glaze at the end too, to try and make it look more realistic.  

I hope this helps - if you have more questions, do ask and I'll do my best to help you.

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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on February 11, 2013 at 7:10am

Or the other thing you can do as it's quite small, is to try and mold it by hand with rice krispie treats.  Then coat it in butter icing to smooth the finish off, then cover it in fondant....

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Permalink Reply by June Kowalczyk on February 11, 2013 at 8:58am

Good idea Katy!

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