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Sweet 16

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When i was asked to make this cake, I was told sweet 16’s traditional colours are black and hot pink.
Is this right??? – i never heard of this before.
Anyway, the cake turned out tops, but i had a lot of trouble jamming the floral wires into a single straw before inserting it into the cake (food regulation standard). Do any of you lovely cakers have any tips on this? Do i split a bunch of flowers and insert into a cake separately, or is there another method im not aware of. Im definitely missing something here, because this was much harder than it should have been!

The cake consists of double barrel mud base and extended red velvet top tier. I got a little lazy and wrap covered both tiers, instead of the usual one piece method. It eliminated the stress associated with covering such tall cakes + no need to work on the sharp edges ;-)

♡♡♡ Ania P. ♡♡♡ https://www.facebook.com/redpolkadotdesigns

sweet 16 pink black birthday choc mud red velvet

37 Comments

3 Wishes Cake Co commented about 10 years ago

Rather than a straw, have you tried flower pics? And when I tape my flowers together, I try to ‘graduate’ the thickness of the stem by trimming with pliers as I go down the stem…. oh that sounds poop, really hard to explain!!!!
I start taping together with one stem then once I’ve added another stem, I trim the wire of the first one and so on….
This prob hasn’t helped at all – sorry!
Beautiful cake by the way xx

Sweet ObsesShan commented about 10 years ago

great cake so beautiful, you should make a forum discussion about this, a lot of people will respond to it. I don’t know the answer either. Good luck with finding out though.

Shannon of Sweet ObsesShan

RED POLKA DOT DESIGNS (was GMSSC) commented about 10 years ago

Thank you ladies :-) and thank you 3 Wishes Cake Co, i think i know what you mean with trimming, thank you! xoxoxox

♡♡♡ Ania P. ♡♡♡ https://www.facebook.com/redpolkadotdesigns

Calli Creations commented about 10 years ago

Vibrant and gorgeous

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