I made this for my best friends daughter for her 4th birthday. I couldn't find a single thing I could use as a cake topper or decoration in the little einsteins theme that was affordable so I printed pictures on card stock, covered them with clear packing tape to protect them, cut them out, attached them to a lollipop stick, then put them in the cake. Necessity breeds invention! And no they are not touching the cake. All buttercream except for the little einsteins. .