Materials Needed for a Fake Cake

Styrofoam - The Styrofoam can be round, square or rectangular. Many times the cake decorator prefers to work with the round Styrofoam pieces to make a tiered cake for a wedding cake display. This requires less cutting of the Styrofoam.

Royal Icing - Royal Icing is an icing that hardens and sets up to last over time. Butter cream icing is not to be used for making a fake cake. This is due to the icing not holding up for a period of time like the Royal Icing.

Piping Bags and tips - Several piping bags and decorating tips will need to be used in order to create dots, borders, roses, and various other decorations on the cake.

Food coloring (Optional) - Food coloring can be used in the Royal Icing sparingly to create different colors for the fake cakes to show how it will look on the actual cake.

Spatula - The spatula will be needed to base ice the fake display with the Royal Icing.

Decorating Cake Plates and Pillars - Cake plates and pillars, such as Wilton wedding cake display, can be used to display wedding, anniversary or larger birthday cakes.

Knife (Optional) - The knife will be used if any of the Styrofoam pieces are needed to be cut down to the size of the cake needed. A cake pan can be used as the template to make the sizes needed.

Putting the Fake Cake Together

Gather all your items together for the fake cake.

Mixing the Royal Icing, recipe can be found here.