I see a lot of cakes on this website with flowers, butterflies, etc. that are attached to wires in the cake. This is a very cute technique. Can anyone give me guidelines on how to do this with cakes frosted in buttercream? It may be obvious, but I wanted to make sure there is not some special way or special wire to use. Can you use any wire? What gauge of wire should be used? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks!

Most any floral or craft wire will work. The gauge will almost depend on how heavy the item is. If it it heavy, you may want to insert a drinking straw into the cake to hold the wire. that way it can't tear the cake.

Unless it's stainless steel wire, you'll definitely want to do the straw thing (or cover the wire with floral tape, royal, or chocolate) so that any metal corrosion doesn't get into the cake.

Never thought of the straw thing. I had trouble with the wires in my teletubbies cake and I never thought to do that.
Thanks for the tip.

Stephanie

I fyou have a few wires coming from the one spot flower picks are great to use as well. You fill them with some fondant mixed with tylose then insert your wires, arrange and the fondant dries and holds them in place