I have found a pretty nice website http://earlenescakes.com/index1.htm
This has some great ideas and instructions if you need any help.


"Peter Jones" > wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I will be getting married on 1st October 2004 and plan on making my
> own wedding cake. Having never done this before I have made a 12 inch
> fruit cake and covered it with marzipan and sugarpaste - the cake
> looks really good so I'm pretty confident that the finished article
> will look nice.
>
> I've been doing lots of research to get some ideas about decorating
> the cake. I will be keeping it simple with some burgandy ribbon around
> the cake board and bottom of the cake. I also plan on getting some
> sugarpaste flowers made to put on each cake.
>
> The only problem that I have at the moment is that I'm not sure what
> to do about covering the cake board. All the pictures of wedding cakes
> I have seen have sugarpaste covered cake boards.
>
> How do I cover the board with sugarpaste? Do I have to coat the board
> with something to get the sugarpaste to stick? Also, how do I get the
> iced cake onto the covered board without putting finger marks in the
> cake icing?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Peter