Hey all I am new here....I am a fairly new cake decorator. I just bought a cake pan last february to make my husband a bowling ball cake and have been hooked ever since. So I have been doing it about a year now.

I got a request for a baby shower~ The girl wants a 3 layers of presents stacked on each other. very girly, pinks, bows and pearls...

How do i go about doing this and does anyone have any pictures or idea's for me??
Can I use the MMF to make the bows? I read the recipe for that and I am going to try using that to cover the boxes. Is that a good idea?

Any help will be great

Look in the galleries, there are TONS of pictures. Also, if you go to articles, you'll see various things, like doing square cakes and this :
http://www.cakecentral.com/article17-How-to-Make-a-Fondant-Loop-Bow.html

I HAVE NEVER DONE THE PRESENTS BEFORE. I WOULDN'T THINK IT WOULD BE TOO DIFFICULT THOUGH. I DID FIND THE RECIPE FOR MMF ON CC'S WEBSITE. http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1949-0-Marshmallow-Fondant-MMF.html

HOPE THIS HELPS JUST A LITTLE!

LES

sounds like a great idea,
squirrelly had a great idea to add fixodent to your fondant to make embellishments like bows and such. (fixodent is basically gumtex with a little minty freshness added to it) helps the fondant to dry quicker and sturdier or you can get the gumtex from places that sell wilton stuff like Michael's or hobby lobby. I wouldn't add any gumtex or fixodent to the fondant covering the cake.
Also these will be stacked so look at the tutorial on stacking cakes. It doesn't matter if they are round or square, same technique is used for both.

One tool that helped me a lot in making bows is the "Perfect Height Rolling Pin" from Wilton.

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=2C4D5B07-802D-F658-05420B72820630B2

All the loops end up the exact same thickness, and it's quick too. The bow tutorial is great! However, royal icing dries much quicked than candy melts. I had more trouble with candy melts for this reason. The loops just fell from the position where I wanted them to be, but with royal icing, is was quick and easy.

There's a great article on how to make fondant pearls on this website:

http://www.earlenescakes.com/prlinstruct.htm

HTH!

Mirjana

OK...I cheated and used real bows on my present cake....you can see it in my pictures! But...doing bows are not too hard and can be done ahead of time! Good luck!

Just to let you know, I've used SquirrellyCakes suggestion on the fixodent and MMf, it works fine. Add 1 tsp powdered fixodent to a wad of MMF the size of a baseball. It will harden just fine. If you're not sure on that idea either add some gumtex to the MMF or go with gumpaste.

If you look in my photos, the sun's rays, Tink's wings, the appendages on the red robot monkey and the cross on the Holy Hand Grenade are all made out of "Fixed MMF". It works if you;re in a fix (no pun intended) and can't get a hold of gumtex or gumpaste.