I have my first costumer,
She wants two Macy's chopping bags and this is my first time making them. Does anyone have any ideas?
I have to make one standing up and another one down for 100 people. I have some ideas and I also looked at some pictures here and there are some good ones but I really would like to make it very realistic. She also wants baking tools coming out of one of the bags.

Thank you

I would make the cooking tools out of gumpaste. The handles you can use a rope mold. Im not quite sure what their bags look like but you could use a sheet pan for the one laying down and a square cake pan for the standing up one. Do a stacking method for the one standing up. I would copy the logo and either do a color flow technique for it or have someone print it out on an edible image for you.

If you look in my photos, I have a shopping bag cake that you are welcome to look at for ideas. I did one laying down and a purse cake standing up, but you can apply the same building techniques that I did.

Does the one standing up need to be standing straight up? It will be difficult to do a large cake standing up unless you make it quite thick and put lots of dowels in it for stability. You could always place it on a cake board and have it leaning onto the other cake (so it looks like someone came home and dropped their bags in the entry way). I agree with PP, make the tools out of gumpaste and allow to dry hard. I would make a big 11x15 or even a 12x18 for the one laying down and make a smaller one standing up otherwise to make up the difference of what you still need.

Look through the picture gallery too, there are LOTS of shopping bag cakes!!

Valerie

Serving a hundred people is a big cake! Can you do smaller shopping bags on top of a sheet cake?

rhesp1212, your shopping bag cake is really cute!