I hope someone can help me. I am making a stacked wedding cake that will have a gum paste spray placed on the buttercream. How do I accomplish this (without letting the wires touch the cake)? I was thinking that I could possibly place it on maybe a small square of wax paper or maybe cutting a drinking straw and inserting the wires in the straw so the don't touch the cake. What does everyone do who puts gum paste sprays on their buttercream cakes. I know I read somewhere that the wires aren't suppose to be directly on the cake. I know I have used a gum paste ball on other cakes to insert my gum paste flowers but since this is on a buttercream frosted cake I am stumped for ideas.

Thanks.

Here's a previous thread on making and inserting sprays:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-57012-.html

HTH

Thanks for the help. I ended up putting the wrapping the spray wires with Press and Seal clear wrap and inserting them into a clean straw in the cake. It worked great.

I just shove the wires into the cake. I know lots of decorators who do this including Colette Peters. No straws, no celo wrap. Just shove it into the cake. Have never had a problem doing this. My wires are always covered with floral tape, but that's it.

There are lots of thoughts on this one but the most important thing to keep in mind is local laws.

Here where I live it is an illegal practice for the wire to be inserted into the cake. It can however sit on top but not be inserted in the cake.

The other suggestion is to place the spray of flowers on a gumpaste plaque, it can either be small so that it can't be seen by the outside or large so it comes out from beyond the spray and used as a feature.

The other great thing about using a plaque is that the person can lift the whole thing off and keep as a momento forever... gumpaste keeps.

karen

that straw trick sounds like a really good idea! I never would have thought of that.