Would a cake shop/bakery ice a cake I made myself at home?

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I am going to make a fruit cake (which I normally only make at christmas) for an upcoming family party.... but am not artistic in the slightest. Would it be really cheeky to ask a professional cake-maker to ice my home made cake?

It's easy at christmas as I have my trusty old holly-shaped cutters etc! However this is for a Silver wedding and I'd like it to look pretty! Anyone out there done this?

Hi,

I made christening cakes for my ds christening as the shop ones were soooo expensive - have you tried ready to roll icing? I usually prefer royal icing, but the ready to roll was soooo much easier and gave a great finish. You can then just tie a ribbon round the side and buy some premade decorations for the top from a cake decorating shop - it's also easy to pop a smaller one on top of a bigger bottom one and do a 2 tier cake.

Gillian.

Thanks for that... I guess what I really need to know about is the decoration side of things rather than the icing - have used ready-rolled icing before it is a godsend!

Can you recommend any good cake-decoration websites perchance?

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here

Although a local one to you might give lots of advice free !! Also Hobbycraft shops have a selection (not as good as a cake shop) and of course ebay sells tons of toppers ....

Thanks FPE! Forgot about ebay, too