Change it or Leave it?

[Kari]

This is our cake inspiration...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/Kari777/INSPIRATIONCAKE.jpg

Ours will be 3 tiers and will not have the flowers. I had planned on having scattered dots on the top and bottom tiers and swiss dots on the middle using white buttercream.

Today, I saw this pic:

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I REALLY like the silver dots. Should I do silver instead of white or will it look funny with the edging? (which we have to do to cover the sharp corners.)

Opinions?

[Coze]

Hi hi-

I like it as it is, but I also like the silver idea... I'm no help am I!?!

TTFN...
D.J.

[Mimzy]

I like it as is. Adding the silver might muddle up the flow?
But if you like the silver try it out on a test cake. It might turn up really beautiful.

[carolinalady67]

Is there going to be any other silver around? Cake stand? or other accents? If you are using it other places and it will tie in the silver on the cake then I'd say do it.

[fizbobunny]

First off, Did you call the baker and make sure they can do silver dots? I'm pretty sure they can though.

I think it would look good. Your cake topper is white, but your table letters are silver (platinum), so it will tie them and the dresses in. Maybe someone can photoshop your inspiration cake and make the swiss dots silver so you can see how it would look.

I tried to make them silver in powerpoint, but dh installed it and it doesn't work right :rolleyes:

[Emily]

I think the silver would go better with your theme

[*Diane*]

I love your original cake but I think it would be even cuter with silver. :heee:

[Kari]

Okay, next question...

silver buttercream? or silver non-perils? (the little ball thingies, I think that is what they are called)

[*Diane*]

Silver buttercream so that your guests don't lose their teeth. (why don't we have a Billy Bob smilie?)

[*heather*]

Kareesh, as soon as I saw the new inspiration, I was thinking, "well, you could do that easily and cheaply with dragees (nonpareils)." I think it would look great with the ivory or white edging, and the silver tri-s. Are you having buttercream or fondant? That might be the point that makes the decision for you. Dragees would cling very well to buttercream, but not at all to fondant. And dragees on buttercream would be WAY cheaper than silvering buttercream on white fondant (or at least that's what my gut tells me). :blush:

[Kari]

white buttercream, white edging

I like the idea of the dragees simply because if I did buttercream dots, they wouldn't be SILVER they would be grey and I just don't think it would have the same effect.

Do you think it would still look good with the alternating scattered/swiss dot/scattered pattern for each layer? Or would it look better with swiss/scattered/swiss?

[*heather*]

Silver dragees, alternating, scattered, swiss dot, scattered. For sure. Very cute and elegant, which is hard to pull of.

[Kari]

I still have a couple of days left to decide, but I am really liking the idea. :)

[Jill]

I also like the idea, Kari! I am always in awe of your planning. details :bighug:

[Kari]

:lol: Jill, I am a freak! I sit here and obsess about the tiniest thing. It kinda sucks because I know not every detail will be how I plan it. I am setting myself up for disappoinment SOMEWHERE.

But I guess as long as I am aware going in that everything won't be exact, I will just shrug it off, I am sure. :blush:

[Kirsten]

Kari - I love the silver dots (was something I was thinking about), and wanted to do them in buttercream but I found out that neither of my bakers could do exactly what I wanted. One just said "no, we can't do that" and the other wanted to airbrush the silver on. (We ultimately changed the design because FH wanted to have one of those "opinion" thingies. ;) )

Ok, so I went through all of that because I don't want you to decide "silver is it!" without finding out if your bakers can do what you want. And I didn't see in the thread if you'd found out one way or the other if the bakers can do silver buttercream. If you go with dragees, then you're cool.

[Kari]

I am guessing I would do the dragees. Mama D has a good point about buttercream being easier to eat, but it just won't give me the look that I really want.

People may have to eat around the dragees :heee:

[lizaanne]

I personally don't like eating cake with dragees - they are hard and taste yucky. They are very pretty to look at, but not good to eat, in my opinion.

I think the small white dots, either scattered or Swiss, are very pretty. :)

~Liza

[fizbobunny]

When I worked at a wedding reception hall, we would knock all the dragees off before serving the cake. Anything hard was removed, cause if someone choked they would sue the reception hall and not the bride.

[*heather*]

Yeah, you're not actually supposed to eat the dragees...it says so right on the container they come in. ;)

[lizaanne]

Yeah, you're not actually supposed to eat the dragees...it says so right on the container they come in. ;)

No wonder I don't like them!!!! :hehe:

~Liza

[Kari]

all turns out to be a moot point. The bakery wouldn't do the dragees and the buttercream isn't an option so we did plain white dots. Top and bottom layer have scattered and the middle has swiss.

[Cindy]

:shuffle:

Um... I hate to be the ignorant one... but what's the difference between swiss dotting and scattered? Swiss dots are placed in an evenly distributed pattern ( I know what the material looks like...) and scattered?

:shuffle:

[Kari]

Cindy, the top layer of this cake is scattered. The second is swiss.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/Kari777/INSPIRATIONCAKE.jpg

[*heather*]

Sometimes its good when decisions are made for us, eh? It was a lovely idea, but it will still be gorgeous with white.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the lesson, Kari! ;) :thumbsup:

[Noelle]

I didn't know the difference between swiss and scattered; however, if I'd looked at the picture better, I bet I could have figured it out! :)

[Cindy]

It never occured to me to look closely at the picture. I just saw dots. :)