Coolest Ideas for Making Cakes for a 1950's Theme Party
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Donna T.
Santa Ana, CA
I love making cakes and this was something special. I made this cake using a size 12x18x2 cake pan made by Wilton. I made four layers of chocolate cake and filled with chocolate buttercream. Once the cakes were baked and filled I carved two layers in the shape of a skirt and two layers in the shape of blouse. I then iced the cakes and covered them in fondant. Once they were covered I simply placed the blouse cake over the skirt and added the fondant belt to cover the seam. I covered the cake board with black and white checked fondant and hot glued a ribbon around the board's edge.
| The Saddle Shoe and the record were both made from gum paste. The blouse, collar, buttons, belt and emblem were made from fondant as well. The poodle was made by printing out an image of a poodle tracing it onto parchment paper and tracing over a piece of fondant and cutting out. I then made the poodles hair by using royal icing colored black and dusted the legs with pearl dust. The bow on the poodle is also fondant. |  |
Brenda S.
Hollow Rock, TN
I made this cake for my best friends 50th Birthday! She is nuts about Elvis so the theme was Blue Hawaii. The Elvis and motorcycle was a magnet to which I hot glued a cut out picture of my friend. The pink car was a Christmas ornament, the gates I cut out of a postcard and glued to the board.
| I baked two 9x12 cakes for the house and two 6"square cakes for the garage part. I iced them in butter cr?me and then used brick texture sheets to get the brick effect. The shutters and walkway doors were all fondant. I covered a piece of cardboard with fondant for the roof. I had to use supports made from Styrofoam to hold the roof up. |  |
This cake is not for the faint of heart or for someone who does not like making cakes. It took me 9 hours to do it! The theme of the cake was "Vic & Elvis ...leaving Graceland ...going to Blue Hawaii"
Anonymous
I was thinking of making cakes for a fifties birthday when I got this idea for a Rock and Roll Birthday. The Records came from a Party Store. I added the picture air brush the cake and place the records around it.
Lori C.
Rome, GA
For my friend's daughter's 13th Birthday, they decided to have a 1950's theme. I made a 9"X13" cake and frosted it with white Wilton's icing. I piped it with icing colored with Wilton's pink and aqua food coloring, and used black piping icing for the words.
For the other decorations I purchased a figurine of a '55 T-bird car and a Jukebox (which was actually a scrapbook sticker) and placed in each corner of the cake on top of fondant icing. I used fondant icing to cut out vinyl records, which I place around the jukebox. The cake was a hit at the party!
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Tracy B.
Scottsdales
I made this cake for my mom and her friend who were sharing their birthdays. This was one of my first cakes, believe it or not! I looked for a picture of the car on the internet. I enlarged it then printed it out, then traced it onto tracing paper. I outlined the design with clear decorating gel and pressed it onto the cake. (I learned this in the Wilton cake decorating class) From there I just filled it in with stars and/or piping.
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