I think that everyone reading this has been touched by breast cancer in some way. We wanted to share a simple but meaningful cake design in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Here’s to believing that with our continued support and donations, a CURE is just around the corner! SUSAN G. KOMEN FOUNDATION
Now a bit about this cake…
This is a six inch fondant covered cake with royal icing writing. I used a Wilton Tip 2 to cover the cake with wordsa and phrases but any small round piping tip will work well!
For the ribbon, I used fondant (tinted with Wilton Rose coloring gel) and kneaded a bit of tylose into it so that it would firm up and dry more quickly . You could also use gum paste. I allowed the ribbon to dry for about 24 hours and then attached to the cake with royal icing.
This is a design that can also be created in buttercream, however you may need to make a change with the ribbon. The safest option is to use a lollipop stick to create a small hole in the ribbon where the two ends overlap, and once dry, push a lollipop stick anchor through the hole (as is often done with gum paste bows or flowers on buttercream cakes). You could fasten a small pink fondant ball, fondant button, pearl, heart, etc. to the exposed bit of anchor in front. The other option would be to create an extremely thinly rolled gum paste ribbon, which can be attached with buttercream, but I would make it smaller if there will be no anchor. Of course, the ribbon can always be placed on top of the cake also!
We hope that you enjoy the cake! Make sure to check out our other cake designs for Breast Cancer Awareness Month! You can find our Tree of Hope cake tutorial here: Tree of Hope Cake for Breast Cancer Awareness.
We have another Breast Cancer Awareness cake tutorial here: The Best Gift will Be a Cure- {A Gift Box Cake}.
Thank you for stopping by! xoxo
Beautiful cake. Love the sentiment
Beautiful! I love the continuous wording!
are the words in buttercream…or chocolate? Love the cake, my cousin is in remission :)
Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwww-jus!!!!!
Hi Nan, the words are royal icing on a fondant cake. You could also write in buttercream on a buttercream frosted cake. Love and best wishes to your cousin
We are having a girls night in next Friday to raise money for cancer. I think this cake it just the thing , I need to bring.
I forgot to ask, where is it best to start the writing? The top middle, top edge, side or bottom?
I love this cake. Am going through terminal cancer with my father now and can personally speak to the need to find a cure for all cancers!
Thank you so much for your comments! I really appreciate them. Emma, I think that it is wonderful that you are raising money for cancer. As far as the words, I worked on the front side of the cake, then the back, then the top. I started at the top left of the front side…but whatever feels right to you! It’s a pretty forgiving design, especially if you stagger your words (making some larger than others)–there’s no pressure that way of having perfectly lined up horizonal rows of words :0)
Nan, I’m glad that your cousin is in remission–she will be in my prayers! Pam, I will keep your father in my prayers too–I’m so sorry.
Lovely! And such a great cause. In case anyone is doing fundraisers, I actually did a photo shoot last month to promote 40+ pages of FREE printables designed by Chickabug to be used for Breast Cancer Awareness events. You can see the collection and find a link to the printables here: http://www.6bittersweets.com/2011/09/collection-for-cure-cupcakes-and-photos.html
Xiaolu– what a gorgeous photo shoot. Thanks for sharing this, and for the link to free printables–that is WONDERFUL!
Thank you Xiaolu!!!!
Thanks, BeBe and Melissa! It was Heather of Chickabug’s work mostly, but I’m so glad to have been a part of it =D.
Melissa,
This is gorgeous!!! It makes my hands hurt just looking at all the piping. I wish I could work with Royal as well as you do.
beautiful and it is something I think everyone can do.
I LOVE this cake — the white on white — it is beautiful and important at the same time. Thanks for sharing!
This is awesome! I really like it. :-)
This cake is beautiful. I am a cancer surivor and love your cakes.
Gorgeous work!!
I first found you on facebook and now I go to your blog for every posting. It’s the high light of my day! Thanks!
Very pretty cake Melissa
Simple, elegant, to the point of what you wanted to share
Great cake
I just read the directions to the ghost cake again. I am making this for my granddaughters school fair. Love all your ideas.
Pretty cake
Love your cakes and ideas.
This is a very special cake.
LOVE!!
You are such an inspiration! I was wondering, do you think it’s possible to achieve all of the piped words with regular buttercream? Or is royal icing better to work with?
Hi Elizabeth—I think that buttercream writing would work just fine! I’ve written on buttercream cakes with buttercream icing in the past with no problems. As far as buttercream on fondant, I would just do this with crusting buttercream to be on the safe side. Nothing too wet. Let me know how it goes!! I’m sure it will be beautiful. :0)
That’s such an awesome cake! You’re so talented! My organization, Good Days from Chronic Disease Fund, offers financial assistance to chronic disease sufferers, including those with breast cancer, that cannot afford the medication they desperately need. To find out more about our organization, or to get involved, visit our website! http://www.gooddaysfromcdf.org
What a perfect cake. The writing on it is really amazing.
This cake is GORGEOUS! I love it.
Hi Melissa & Bebe,
As always, the cake is a knock out!! So beautiful and simple.
I absolutely love this. White on white is my favorite. I’ve featured you on my blog as part of the Pink Project: Painting the Blog World Pink for the day.
Here is the link: http://purplestpecalin.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-so-speechless-sunday-project-pink.html
Thanks so much Mallory–wonderful site! :0)
Your cake is absolutely awesome! I lost my mother-in-law to complications from breast cancer last year. She had won the battle for over ten years…wish I could have made her a cake like that! I made a wedding cake with words like this….but what a great idea for someone who is fighting the battle! Thank you for your wonderful tutorials and awesome site, I love it!
I’m so sorry to hear that you lost your mother-in-law, I know that she must have been a very strong woman to have fought for ten years. I’ve gotten so much feedback from Facebook & e-mails about this cake…it’s a topic that hits so close to home for way too many of us. Thanks so much for sharing your story and for your nice words about our site!
Beautiful cake!
Beautiful! I love the simplicity of the design, especially since there’s actually quite a lot to it!
So glad you reposted this cake. My three friends and I are walking for the cure here in Florida on 10/21 and two of them are survivors. We are planning on wearing crazy pink bras over our tee shirts. We will be having a decorating party the week before and this cake idea would be awesome since they asked me to handle the dessert! I just may have to give it a try!
such a beautiful cake!
Love this cak and I am so glad I found your school I have learned so much
Hey, the cake looks great! I have become a pretty big supporter of this month and what it stands for. The mother of one of my oldest friends, her name is Chrissy, is a breast cancer survivor, and she is still with us because they were able to identify the disease at an earlier stage. I think that is one of the most important aspects about this month, helping to remind women and men everywhere of how crucial breast cancer screening and early detection are. I actually wrote a post in preparation for this month which you can check out at: http://www.knowcancer.com/blog/getting-ready-breast-cancer-awareness-month/
Absolutely love it! My sister, two aunts, grandmother, and a few friends have all dealt with breast cancer. Beautiful cake!