Hey all. I was wondering if you all knew what the guy that made the robot cake used for the decorations on top? It looked like a curled wire and he attached stars at the end. I am going to make a cake for my nephew and wanted to know if it was wire or what.
Thanks in advance

maybe you can go onto food networks web site and see if they have an area for questions about a show, or like others recipes and "how to's" if they do maybe his name and info would be there.

maybe you can go onto food networks web site and see if they have an area for questions about a show, or like others recipes and "how to's" if they do maybe his name and info would be there.

Yup, it's wire. I know exactly what you're talking about; it's been popular as a cake topper in the UK for some time, if the pics I've seen are any indication.

Use 16 or 18 gauge wire; craft and bead stores will have colored copper-core for not too much; Artistic Wire and Darice are two brands I can think off right off the top of my head.

Cut a enough pieces to make you happy; about eight to ten at 8" or 12" long will make a nice tall bunch that'll make a nice spray-type arrangement. If you want them curly, grab yourself some dowels, markers, pens, crayons - you can even use stuff with square or triangle cross-sections. Just wrap that wire around your sticks, leaving about 4" uncurled, and then hold them together and use floral tape or more wire and wrap the ends.

Use a flower spike in your cake to hold them. If your bundle is small enough, you can use straws too.

If you want to put things on the ends, make color flow or royal icing shapes, let them dry, then "cement" the ends of the wire onto the back of the shape with more royal icing or color flow.

You can also use superglue to epoxy smaller beads to the ends. The heavier the bead, the more "droop" per wire stem, so you can go that way too if you like.

You can also use a pair of pliers to bend the ends into shapes; stars, hearts, coils, spirals, just about anything you want. If you do this with the colored wire, use flat-surfaced pliers or wrap them with electrical or duct tape so they don't mar the coating. (Scotch tape just won't hold up.)

Cheap, easy, and oh-so-cool.

Illy

thanks so much for answering. Im making my nephew a barney cak and at the top i "want" to try to do that and with stars or some at the ends.
Thanks so much

thanks so much for answering. Im making my nephew a barney cak and at the top i "want" to try to do that and with stars or some at the ends.
Thanks so much

thanks so much for answering. Im making my nephew a barney cak and at the top i "want" to try to do that and with stars or some at the ends.
Thanks so much