I have a challenge ahead of me. I have never made a 3 tiered cake before and was asked to build this. Please give me any suggestions/hints/tips you may have. I'm freaking out a little How big of tiers do I need to feed 95 people? Also, do you know how they created these perfect little snowflakes? A mold, maybe? and to attach the ribbon to the fondant? buttercream or piping gel? Thanks so much for your help!

Yep, they are molds. Probably a set of 3 sizes. Many out there. Google snowflake mold. Or check Global Sugar Art. You'll find them. Attach with royal icing or piping gel. I would not use BC on fondant.

A cricut machine would come in real handy for this cake.

this cake is amazing! even to have just for the holidays. wow!!!! good luck and post pics!!

Wilton has a handy dandy chart that explains a lot: especially serving amounts. http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-wedding-cake-2-inch-pans.cfm

And because I like to repeat myself (apparently) here are the molds I was referring to:
http://www.surbitonart.co.uk/acatalog/snowflake-pme.jpg

Here are a few options for making the snowflakes
-PME Snowflake Plunger cutter set
-Snowflake Chocolate/Candy Mold - made of plastic and very inexpensive
-Snowflake Silicone Mold - I've been eyeing the ones made by first impressions
-Cricut - this would make things really easy- just roll your gumpaste and let the machine cut it for you
-Use templates then place clear plastic, wax paper or parchement overtop and pipe them with RI in advance so they have enough time to dry
-Snowflake Paper Punchers maybe?????

As for the sizes here's a link to Wilton's serving guide:
http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-wedding-cake-2-inch-pans.cfm

6/9/12 = 100 servings (based on 1x2x4in serving sizes)

Here's a great pic that MikeRowesHunny posted showing the various sizes of serving:
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=88648

Xstitcher....that was the best display of spoon feeding I've seen all day! Hopefully you'll get a great big thanks for that effort.....or at least another bump.

Everything you need to know to make, decorate and assemble tiered/stacked/layer cakes:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-605188-.html

Above super thread has popular CC recipes for crusting American buttercreams, several types of fondant and doctored cake mix (WASC and other flavor variations) - and so much more!

Some of the "more" would be:

baking and servings help
photos of and directons for common cake support systems
Leahs sticky on SPS cake system

Snowflake templates:

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&meta=search&type=full&search=snowflake&album=121&search_user=

HTH

The snowflakes on the cake in the photo are made using the PME plunger cutters that come in 3 or 4 different sizes.

Rae

Lol, the first thing I thought of when I saw that picture was "wow, that's a lot of starfish".

I have watched a bit too much Spongebob today.

Here's a site where you can buy the plunger cutters http://www.bakedeco.com/detail.asp?id=13617&trng=fgle

Pretty cake, please post pics.

That is a beautiful cake! The pluger cutters are great i have some with butterflies and they are so easy to use and give a lot of detail.. Make sure you post pics when your finished

When you guys are talking about cricut, are you talking about the cutter machine used a lot for scrapbooking? If so, how do you use this to cut fondant? Or are you just making templates with the cricut?

Thanks wildwolves - I'm gonna check that out for sure!

Thank you so much for all the help ladies. NOW I am dangerous!

C

I'm also making a 'snowflake' themed cake!!
I bought the snowflake cutters a year ago and they are amazing!
I made some practice snowflakes that turned out really well!
I cut them out of a thin layer of gumpaste, dried them, piped some royal icing down the snowflake part to give it more deminsion, dried again, then I sprayed them with PME LUSTER spray ( in pearl color) then I sprinked them with edible glitter
(Disco Dust in Rainbow/irredescent color) while they were still wet from the spray color!! when it all dries, the snowflakes look like they are covered in a diamond dust!!
they are really amazing! let me know if you want me to send you a photo! cindy

I made a snowflake themed wedding cake recently and I was able to snap a few nice photos with my my cell phone! No professional photos yet but I was happy with the few that I got from my cell!
The final product wasn't exactly as I had planned.. they were more time consuming than I had originally thought.... so here is the method I used:
cut out with plunger cutter & dry completly
attach @ 26 guage wire making sure to attach to the back of the snowflake
I used a stiff royal icing as glue
I used different lengths of wire so that they could fill in the open spaces as needed
after everything was dry, I airbrushed them with "pearl" then immediately dipped into edible glitter then placed front side down in large box lined with plastic.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1556421.html

cdgleason, the large ones are plunger cutters too????

"all4 cake"
the largest snowflakes are from a set of cutters that I bought from "Country Kitchen Sweet Art" here in fort wayne, where I live!
They sell similar, but much more expensive set at Williams- Sonoma, but the set is less than ten dollars at Country Kitchen!

I looked at cksa...is that the cookie cutter set you used?

Those fern-edged looking ones are plunger cutters...

but the larger ones aren't plunger cutters too, are they?

"all4cake",
here is a link for the exact set of cutters I used for the jumbo snowflakes.... I also used the standard set of snowflake plunger cutters!
http://www.countrykitchensa.com/catalog/product.aspx?T=1&productId=625608

Thanks!

ACan I just say WOW!!! I have to do a snowflake cake for my daughter's wedding and I am totally new to this.....can we all say no pressure there? Ha!! Anyway, I bought the set of three snowflake plungers after being told I can use them to make white chocolate snowflakes as she wants chocolate snowflakes. But I have no idea how...help please!!! Your cakes are gorgeous!!