Hello, I'm new here and in UK.

We're celebrating our sapphire anniversary at Easter and I want to make a
square sapphire cake - like a cut sapphire with a sparkly blue finish. I've
already got the necessary decorations and ingredients.

I have two questions:

Does anyone know where I can find an easy to follow guide for cutting the
angles as on a real sapphire? I know there are different cuts but can't find
a picture big enough for any of them.

If anyone can suggest an alternative yet simple cake decoration I'm willing
to consider it. It has to travel a long way and won't be able to be
specially treated because there will be a lot of other stuff in our car.

Since there will also be children at this event (an Eostre gathering of
Vikings in a dark age village) I'm trying to think of appropriate small
favours for them. I'd like to make biscuits with edible blue 'glass' inserts
but can't seem to find anything acceptable. If I make a hard transparent
candy what could I use to colour it?

Mary

"Mary Fisher" > wrote in message
et...
> Hello, I'm new here and in UK.
>
> We're celebrating our sapphire anniversary at Easter and I want to make a
> square sapphire cake - like a cut sapphire with a sparkly blue finish.
I've
> already got the necessary decorations and ingredients.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> Does anyone know where I can find an easy to follow guide for cutting the
> angles as on a real sapphire? I know there are different cuts but can't
find
> a picture big enough for any of them.
>
> If anyone can suggest an alternative yet simple cake decoration I'm
willing
> to consider it. It has to travel a long way and won't be able to be
> specially treated because there will be a lot of other stuff in our car.
>
> Since there will also be children at this event (an Eostre gathering of
> Vikings in a dark age village) I'm trying to think of appropriate small
> favours for them. I'd like to make biscuits with edible blue 'glass'
inserts
> but can't seem to find anything acceptable. If I make a hard transparent
> candy what could I use to colour it?
>
> Mary
>
>

Hi Mary,

http://www.gemfix.com/sapphire_montana_1.html

Are any of these pictures usable? I like the one that is on the right,
second row (Kite).

Don't know how kosher it would be with this group (just got here), but I
would think you could do a cutout cake to make the sapphire and it would be
pretty neat...3-d and all. Should be pretty easy to make a pattern for it,
and could make it so it could travel a little easier.

As far as decorating it...maybe a fondant? People here are probably much
more knowledgable about that stuff than me...

Again, probably not real popular with this group, but I'm not a candy maker.
What about blue Jolly Ranchers crushed up and sprinkled on your bisquits?

Good luck!

Mali

"Mali More" > wrote in message
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>>
>> We're celebrating our sapphire anniversary at Easter and I want to make a
>> square sapphire cake - like a cut sapphire with a sparkly blue finish.
> I've
>> already got the necessary decorations and ingredients.

>
> Hi Mary,
>
> http://www.gemfix.com/sapphire_montana_1.html
>
> Are any of these pictures usable? I like the one that is on the right,
> second row (Kite).

Oh that's LOVELY!

But I've now made a square cake ... I could trim it but then it wouldn't go
as far but it's such a lovely shape I'm very tempted. I've looked on all
sorts of sites and had found a simple square one I could use but now I'm
excited by the kite one, thank you very much :-)
>
> Don't know how kosher it would be with this group (just got here), but I
> would think you could do a cutout cake to make the sapphire and it would
> be
> pretty neat...3-d and all.

Yes, that's the effect I wanted.

>
> As far as decorating it...maybe a fondant? People here are probably much
> more knowledgable about that stuff than me...

I don't like fondant. I've decided to be boring and use marzipan with royal
icing, coloured dark blue so that when I sprinkle on the paler blue glitter
there will be different hues showing. I'll practise first though. The
marzipan will be able to be sculpted too and royal icing will give harder
edges than fondant.
>
> Again, probably not real popular with this group, but I'm not a candy
> maker.
> What about blue Jolly Ranchers crushed up and sprinkled on your bisquits?

We don't have those. I've decided to make hard (brittle) candy, colour it
blue with a water soluble food colour, crush it and melt it in the frames of
the biscuits (cookies) while they're baking.

Thank you again for your input.

Mary
>
> Good luck!
>
> Mali
>
>

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Mary Fisher wrote:

> > http://www.gemfix.com/sapphire_montana_1.html
> >
> > Are any of these pictures usable? I like the one that is on the right,
> > second row (Kite).
>
> Oh that's LOVELY!
>
> But I've now made a square cake ... I could trim it but then it wouldn't go
> as far but it's such a lovely shape I'm very tempted. I've looked on all
> sorts of sites and had found a simple square one I could use but now I'm
> excited by the kite one, thank you very much :-)

Well, it's only two cuts and a reassembly, from a square to the kite...
Slice form halfway up the left side to the top-right corner, and
from halfway up the left side to the bott-right corner. The piece off
the top becomes the bottom right (without turning), and the piece off the
bottom becomes the top right.

Dave

"Dave Bell" > wrote in message
rea.net...
>>
>> But I've now made a square cake ... I could trim it but then it wouldn't
>> go
>> as far but it's such a lovely shape I'm very tempted. I've looked on all
>> sorts of sites and had found a simple square one I could use but now I'm
>> excited by the kite one, thank you very much :-)
>
> Well, it's only two cuts and a reassembly, from a square to the kite...
> Slice form halfway up the left side to the top-right corner, and
> from halfway up the left side to the bott-right corner. The piece off
> the top becomes the bottom right (without turning), and the piece off the
> bottom becomes the top right.

That's a good idea, thanks.

My first reaction was that it would make slicing difficult but what the
heck! I'm a true daughter of Yorkshire, I'm not going to waste anything.
It's said of us that we'd nip a currant in half!

:-)

Mary
>
> Dave