Does anyone have any cake decorating tips?

[Kempette]

Hello...

I'm trying to make my fiance a montreal canadiens cake and I'm not sure how to go about it does anyone have any suggestions?

[shipscook]

I see nothing on a search? do you have a description, picture, or recipe??

Nan

[Kempette]

I just need to figure out how I can make a nice cake to incorporate an ice hockey team on it. It's going to be a big birthday for him and he wants me to make him his cake, the baking I can do but I can't think of an easy way to decorate the cake and make it look really good

[Mama Mangia]

Is there a bakery supply house near you?
they sell all sorts of "things" that you can put on a cake - and sometimes you can buy them from a supermarket that also decorates cakes with various things
a friend of mine purchased a football setting to perch on top of the cake - she frosted it (13 X 9) green for the turf and drew the white lines - set the little football players and goalposts on it and it looked adorable
it's an easy way to cheat

[Kempette]

Wow! Thanks Mama Mangia
That's a great Idea

[The Ironic Chef]

Making or buying a white sheet cake with white frosting shouldn't be hard to do. Making an ice rink, goal post and such should be rather easy with a piping bag. Something really easy would to bake a round cakes and just pipe a Montreal Maple leaf on the top. Frosting is easy enough to dye to the color of choice using food coloring or you can get a cake decorating kit that comes with the tubes of different colors and the fittings for decorating that screw right onto the tubes. Sports figurines should be easy enough to come across at a Toys R Us or a sports shop.
Good luck with your cake.
IC

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Welcome Kempette! We;re a fine bunch of folks that always enjoys meeting new folks and making new friends. We're glad you're here, and we hope to see you often!

[Mama Mangia]

Little toys always make a cake extra special. I found a complete circus - the train, animals in cages, bareback riders, MC - you name it - and I can't wait to make it. couldn't be easier!
They have all those little princess dolls, planes, cars, dinosaurs - you name it - that can easily be put on cakes - I just cut waxed paper the size of the bottoms (who knows what lead paint there is on these things) so that they never touch the cake/icing.

[Kempette]

Thank you for the welcome chubbyalaskagriz

[Kempette]

Thanks Mama
I completely agree with you about the lead issue, and I love the idea of the wax paper being placed underneath the toys. I was wondering about a cake my mother use to make for me when I was little she uses to place a doll in the top of the cake and have the cake come down like a very large dress, do you think I could rap wax paper around one of those dolls and still have the cake look great?