they want a simple wedding REDNECK theme...what the heck am I suppose to do for this cake....anyone that does cakes please help me on this...whar is a redneck themed cake suppose to look like????? what would you suggesr I do as decorations....
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Did you watch "My Name is Earl" when it was on network TV? There is an episode where Joy and Darnell get married and their wedding cake was carefully arranged Little Debbie Cakes. It was hilarious, but the "cake" looked a bit like your cupcake picture with the cake in the center. I wish you could still get that episode, but it is for sale at Amazon for .99 if you want to see it.;)
158717I cannot help you with these. I don't even know the word redneck ( i'm Dutch and this is not known here) but the picture with all the cupcakes looks lovely and Yummy, it even makes me hungry LOL
Good luck with the preparations!!
743310so I found these ideas...
#1 I can use her color themes and the cake on top i can get the topper with the bride dragging the groom to the alter..
#2 simple woodsy sign for her wedding in the park
#3 this will fit into the theme for his and her chairs...
#4 they have horses, so hay tables will work...
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Is this a good start?
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by katrinasheffield
23 Feb 2011
I think its perfect! You have a great plan. If you need any help just let me know!!
34246As the appointed cake baker around my parts, you could always do a nice shot gun cake, deer head or alligator cake. If none of those are pleasing, then I'd defer to said Cupcakes - they are the new tradition (provided that you don't delegate as suggested). If you or someone you knows owns a cricuit you can make some amazing cupcake holders (they make a cartridge just for these) that can cover up a lot and with just a tiny amount of wrist control and a large piping tip and LOTS of icing you can make amazing looking cupcakes to plop right down in those holders. Plus they have all kinds of pretty glitz that you can sprinkle on top.
If you make a cake instead of cupcakes - don't freeze it. It always makes it dry reglardless of what bakers try to convince you - there is nothing like a fresh cake. However - it cant be too fresh or it won't hold up. Always bake it 18 hours prior to stacking or it won't hold the weight above it. (so Friday am for Sat even Wedding). If you aren't finishing it Sat Afternoon then bake Thur night.... Fondant tastes bad - but it looks pretty and now they have cricuit machines just for fondant too (not the same as for paper) - so that is an option too - but an expensive one if you or someone you know doesn't already own one.
I'd go with pretty wrapped cupcakes - it is the "in" trend with pretty wrappers. The wrappers can be made ahead and then popped on when you get to the reception site (because buttercream will seep into the paper and "ruin" the papers.. just my opinion - but I'm a control freak. I don't like the way other peoples cakes taste because they like to freeze them and then charge me an arm and a leg for dry cakes. But that's me being very general and critical and mean because I live in a touristy area where they do that to people because they can.
If you'd like to give easy cupcakes a try - use 1 box Pillsbury white cake mix as directed (recipe with 3 eggs) but add 1 small container of vanilla snack pack pudding (not sugar free). Using electric mixer - mix on low speed till all ingredients are incorporated and then mix on high 2 full minutes - batter should be fluffy almost like marshmallow creme.
Pour into cupcake holders and bake about 25 minutes or so at 350 (it will depend on your oven and if you use a light or dark pan). Slightly underbake (you don't want them runny in the middle but they will continue to bake when you pull them out - so you don't quite want them done when you do pull them out). Then go to wiltons and use their buttercream recipe and try your hand at buttercream frosting. Use a huge tip (not one that will fit on your thumb but one you can fit 3 fingers and a thumb into) and just swirl around the top of the cupcake. It will take a lot of icing - but all said and done it won't cost that much to test it out to see if you can do it.
Good luck and if you need any help - just let me know!!
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by camylow
23 Feb 2011
Thank you, I did find a lovely cake with cupcakes around that might just work...came from crafter2243 link.. i will try and post a picture
1784Sounds like it is a cake with a funny theme. Make an ordinary cake, ice it and find some crazy object to sit at the top. Wedding cakes are not always the elaborate affairs they once were. My daughter is having a choc mud cake. plain icing and flowers similar to the bouquete around it
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39739My cakes look like they were done by an 8 year old. I do cupcakes to hide my ineptness.
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463419Oh dear. I have no clue. Could you not ask the people what a REDNECK cake is supposed to look like?
P.S Just googled it and came up with this. Hope this helps
weddings.lovetoknow.com
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109774While it is lovely that your mother is so proud of you that she volunteered you for this project, you might feel more comfortable if you tackle it as the wedding cake organizer rather than as the whole creator from the bare ingredients up - that way you can use your management skills and your imaginative, artistic talent.
Here is my suggestion:
Talk some more with the bride-to-be about the finer details of what she is hoping for (while in years gone by wedding cakes were always traditioanl fruit cakes, modern ones can vary from friut cakes to meringues to sponges to chocalate mud cakes to combinations of differnt types for different layers); maybe look through a few cake decorating books together, draw a few sketches of your ideas until you come up with something she that likes and is likely to be within the budget you have allowed.
Then design and plan the cake:
1. Ask around for talented cake bakers and delegate the baking to that person.
2. Find a talented cake decorator who is more than capable of the degree of difficulty of the design you have planned and who has a good reputation for completing the job on time (no good having a wedding cake ready the day after the wedding)
3. Ask the decorator to make a few spare decorations that can be carefully packed into an air-tight plastic food storage box to replace any on the cake that might get damaged during transport to the wedding reception venue and bring that, together with a filled icing piping bag to "glue" any necessary repairs in place, with you to the wedding reception venue early enough to make any repairs before the guests arrive (any left-over spare decorations can be used on another cake you make at home for your own use in the next cuople of days or included with the slices of cake given to guests)
4.Plan how the cake will be transported to the wedding venue; if the cake is a muti-teired one , you will be wise to transport the layers individually you will need some-one to help assemble the supporting dowel rods & decorative pillars between the layers on the day or show you how to do this yourself.
5. You might like to make some special embroidered cake bags to put slices of the wedding cake in for your guests, which can be given to guests towards the end of the reception or as they are leaving so that they each have a personalised memento of this special day.
6. Depending on whether the reception will be held indoors or outdoors in a garden setting or at the beach, you might also want to make a customised emroidered sheer cake protection net supported by a light frame to protect the cake from insects, dust, sand, etc at the reception venue until the reception proceedings are under way.
There will be plenty for you to do as the organizer and it would be nice to involve others as a joint effort, and lots of ways for you to add your own personal touch without having to be the baker etc as well.
Good luck and remember to have fun!
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by pennifold
22 Feb 2011
Dear Crazystitcher,
You've obviously done this before!!! Wonderful suggestions. Love Chris
3568I don't have a clue for what you could do with this cake. I did cakes for years and there were times I had to say no because I didn't want to do a cake that wasn't pleasing to the eye, or else they wanted an X rated cake. You may want them to get someone else to do it. Hope you get something worked out. Hugs, Judy
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10530OH Deanna, the only cake that comes to mind was from the movie "Steal Magnolia's" - that terrible looking ardvark or whatever it was with the blood red cake - I hope that isn't what they want. Hehehe!
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by shirlener88
22 Feb 2011
Bev, you are right - it was a grooms cake:
http://weddings.lovetoknow.com/wi...
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