Looking for help with a grooms cake - Firehat

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tessie-in-cincy

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My friend's fiance is a volunteer firefighter and she wants to do a grooms cake for their wedding next June.

Any suggestions or website links would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Tessie

 
You can buy fondant already tinted to black...not too bad either. In fact

they recommend you "buy" it for dense colors like red and black rather than adding lots of coloring yourself. I did for the GBH last year. 1 lb. tubs of black, red, & green for snowmen scarves and the awning & steps. Nice pure color.

Hold on...I'll go see the name on the container...

I'm back: It's actually 2 lbs of fondant, company is Satin Ice "Rollable Cake Icing" Black/Vanilla.
$11.15 last year at a cake/wedding/candy supply store in Orlando.

I have a book somewhere that define how much fondant you need for various size cakes.

http://www.dadepaper.com/ProductInfo7932ac46-21c1-44f1-bff2-8b9835d38d1a.aspx

 
Thanks Pat & Marilyn - Fondant is the way to go if...

we want it to look classy and taste good too. There's a cake decorating shop here in town we'll be contacting to see if we can get the colors we need since the minimum order directly from them is $200 (ouch).

Now instead of a firehat she's thinking an airplane since he works on them by day and fights fires by night. I told her she should marry a firetruck and an airplane and put a little firefighter in the cockpit. It's a good thing she's an artist with a steady hand cause that's so not me. I'll let you know what we end up with. -T

 
Is that $200 from the fondant supplier? heck, I'll mail some up to you. In fact, I can

mail some now and you two can play around with it, trying small models. The stuff is like Playdough.

I wouldn't eat what I've got though...it's from last year. I kept it for experiments. But you can certainly use it to do test runs.

Another cheap idea is to check out a super Walmarts early in the morning. Somewhere in the store they'll have a baker's rack of unsold baked goods and 8" layered cakes go for $4.80. You could freeze one of those and then practice carving out the shape and draping the fondant. You'll probably need to scrap off most of the icing, but still a quick and easy tester. And those are very edible. At least they are for the 25-30 year old male engineer group I'm working with lately. Since I'm not baking much these days, I pick up pumpkin and banana bread from a nice bakery and an el-cheapo cake from there.

 
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