Is there any other way to cover up the wire besides straws? I talked to someone that said that it is ok to just put the wires right into the cake & people just overreact about covering them up...I'm not too sure if I should really take her advice or not. So do you guys really cover them up or just stick them straight into the cake?

Yeah, you should not take her advice. Wire does not belong in cake. You do not know its origin or (more importantly) its composition, and there could very well be a high lead content, as lead is a very easily bendable metal.

Unless you can find pure stainless steel wire and you sanitize it before sticking it in the cake, you will need to put straws in the cake and put your wires in the straws. I pipe either royal icing or buttercream in the straws so the wires stay put. It's very easy to do.

Please educate your friend.

I use straws. Because of course, plastic in your cake is much healthier than metal, right? Seriously though, it makes my clients feel better and straws are cheap enough so that's what I do.

Hi, you shouldn't stick the wires straight in the cake! I always use posy pick/flower picks. You need in put a little bit of fondant in there and insert the wires. Here is a link from Global Sugar Art,

http://www.globalsugarart.com/cat.php?cid=672&s=30

I also have used straws too!

When you say straws,do you mean drinking straws or are there special ones?

You can also dip your wires in melted chocolate or white chocolate. I used white almond bark. Worked great.

If it's individual wires, I use the coffee stir straws; if it's several, then I use a regular drinking straw....

Aren't you glad you asked, CakesIMake? Wow, great answers! You couldn't get this much info out of any book!

Regular drinking straw should be fine

I made a pooh cake recently (IN my pictures) and this is the first time I made something that was on the wire. I didn't want to put it directly into cake. So, I took the lollipop sticks and cut it into half. Inserted the wire half way through (They'll go pretty easily) and stuck that in the cake. DIdn't have to use fondant or anything.

HTH,

All the answers are here on CC. I am doing a Bee Hive cake this weekend and was going to ask this question. I don't know how I survived before I found Ya'll!

How long do you cut your straws?

Where do you get the thin coffee straws? I am not a coffee drinker so I don't have a clue. The ones that I have seen are usually red or some kind of stripe. I don't suppose they come in white or clear?

What kind of wires are folks referring to? Wires from fake flowers that aren't made of edible material? Or is this a technique of some sort?? This could be exciting!

do any of you actually have BARE wires? everything I wire uses wire that is 1)cloth covered and 2) additionally covered with floral tape.

Green floral wire.......metal wire that is silver in color........
any wire that is bendable and stiff to attach flowers, tags,
notes, balls of fondant, stars, ballons......etc.
The wire may have lead, so the straws or candy coating, chocolate,
plus other ideas will help keep the wire off the cake.

It's like putting a paper clip wire into your cake and you think...ewww!

I bet the straw at the dollar store aren't any better?
I often wonder about those dollar store items........why
are they there in the first place? What is a good plastic
straw compared to a bad one? Made in CHINA?