Hi! Need some help...

I have a request to make the cake for an 80's theme party. She would like the cake for 40 people...she would like either a rubik's cube cake or a pac-man cake...

If she goes with pac-man I can always make the pac man board on a sheet cake...however if she goes with the rubik's cube cake...how do I make enough for 40 people??

And how much would you charge for either cake? I figured both would be done in buttercream with fondant accents, however the rubik's cube cake would be more fondant.


Any help or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks!
Peggy

how about using a square pan making layers then covering it...or by making several smaller rubiks and that way you kept with the rubik theme but instead of just one cake a few? as for pricing, I am sure others will help you.

The cube would be dead easy!

Make 4x 8" square layers (okay, this would serve about 48 but that's pretty close!) Then treat them like 2 separate cakes (boards, filling, crumb-coat, etc), just make sure the board for the 2nd one is slightly smaller than the cake.

Use dowels or straws or whatever to support the second layer and stack them. BC the whole thing in black.

This should give you a cake that's about 8-1/2" cube (use a little extra BC on top if you need more height). Use a ruler to be sure, then use the edge of the ruler (or something else long and straight) to mark your grid (push it into the BC to make it look like separate cubes)... should be about every 15/16". Roll the ruler to each side a little to widen the outer edge of the "gap"

Pre-make a bunch of little fondant squares @ about 7/8" (I would do them all white and paint them after they are dry)... you'd need min 45 but make some extras! Paint min 9 of each of 5 colours ... pick your fave 5 as the 6th colour is the bottom! (I don't remember all the original colours, but a quick google should give you pix)

Apply each square in the middle of each marked out section... do you want to have the cube solved, or waiting to be solved? Either all of each colour on one side, or scrambled as you like, and you're done!

This sounds like fun... I may have to make one myself now!

I remember a very long thread about the 80s theme before, a few months ago. Try searching for that previous thread, it was long and there were some great ideas!

I made a pac man & Mrs. pac man cake for an 80's party. I also made a cabbage patch kid. You can viw my website at www.sugarcoatedcakes.com and click on cake gallery. The picture of teh pac man cake is at teh bottom. Good Luck!!
have Fun,
Marisa

I tried to view your website and came up with the under construction page. Are you building it through geocities???

Lucky you that you get to make such a fun cake!
I want to make a rubix cube!

Opps.... I got my cake central name confused with the site!
The site is www.sugarcoatedinc.com
sorry bout that

Cute Pac Man. Seems easy to do.

Yes, very easy and cute, teh client was amazed I only charged her for 1 cake instead of two. G'luck cant wait to see ur cake finished.

Man, too bad you can't do a Miami Vice cake!

Debbi

That would be soooo cool! I can see it now -- a white suit jacket with pastel shirt!! It would work. Of course, not sure if they would know what it was!!! Hey, is there a male doll kit? You could make it with no socks and wearing top-siders (boat shoes). Oh, man, I'm getting visions!!!

Thank you to all for the suggestions and website info! You guys are awesome!

If you were doing either the pac-man sheet cake or the rubik's cube cake what would you charge?

I'm thinking $40 for the sheet cake (pac-man screen shot) but I'm not sure about the rubik's cube.

Thoughts?

Again..thanks so much!

Peggy

i usually charge by the slice. So at $4 a slice for 40 people that comes out to $160. and you can say its $120 at a discount price b/c it's your first pac man cake. $40 is way to little and wont cover costs or your time. I know Its hard to charge people but your time is what they are paying for. Good luck!!!!!