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Weddings are all about sharing happiness. You¡¯ve found that perfect someone. You spent months buying rings, choosing formal wear, and choosing a menu. The day is nearing and you are getting down to the finer details of making this day as perfect as possible. You are looking for a way to give your guests a party favor and decorate your reception tables at the same time. The answer is simple: A piece of groom¡¯s cake encased in a miniature box made by you with special creative touches added.
The groom¡¯s cake lends itself perfectly to being boxed and carried home. In the oldest tradition, the groom¡¯s cake is a gift from the bride to the groom. It is usually a dark cake made with fruits and nuts and liquor. More recent traditions, however, are for small pieces of groom¡¯s cake to be sent home with the guests. There is a superstition that if a single person sleeps with the slice of groom¡¯s cake under his or her pillow, that person will dream of the person they will marry. For those who are already married, sharing a piece of groom¡¯s cake with your spouse, superstition says, brings good luck to the marriage.
It is quite simple to make a wedding cake box to use as individual favors on the tables at your wedding reception or to pass out to your guests. It may seem a bit complicated at first, but after you make one or two of the boxes, it becomes very simple and fun to do. All you will need to make a basic wedding cake box is cardstock paper, a pencil, a ruler, and scissors.
First choose your paper. You should purchase cardstock paper as it will make a firmer box. But you can experiment with other papers too. Almost any paper will hold the shape, but cardstock makes for crisper corners to the box and a more polished appearance.
After choosing the paper, make a ¡°pattern¡± out of a piece of cardboard that you can trace many times. The cardboard can be taken from a breakfast cereal box or a potato chip box ¨C any kind of cardboard that will hold up to many tracings.
Next, cut a 4 5/8 (four and five eighths) inch square out of the cardboard to make your pattern. It is essential that your pattern be a square. Put the pattern on a piece of the cardstock and trace the square. You need to have two of the 4 5/8 pieces of cardstock to make one box.
After you have cut two pieces of cardstock, take one of the squares and use the ruler to draw a line from one point of the square to the point on the opposite side of it. Then draw another line from the other point of the square to its opposite point. Your square should look like it has a big ¡°x¡± drawn on it. Draw these lines on both pieces of the cardstock squares.
Next take one point of the square and bring it to the center of the ¡°x¡± formed by the pencil lines in the center of the square and make a crease in the paper with your thumb at the fold. Then fold the newly made crease in to meet the pencil line drawn down the center of the paper. (This second fold will hide the point that is touching the ¡°x¡± in the center. Open the folds out again and repeat this process with the other three corners of the square. When all four corners have gone through this folding process, you will see that at the center there is a small square shape that is about 1 ? inches wide.
Now you must do one of the trickier parts of this process. Choose two points that are opposite of each other on the square. At one of those points, cut down on the right side of the fold line that is located ? inch from the pencil line at the point you chose and cut. Make a cut that is 1 ? inches long. (This will bring you to that small ¡°unfolded¡± square at the center.) Make an identical cut on the left side of that same pencil line. Now do the same process at the point that is opposite from the one you just cut.
Now, on the two points that were not cut, bring the points into the ¡°x¡± at the center line. (The folds should already be creased where you need to bend them.) You will see that on either side of those points are two ¡°wings¡± made from your cuts. Bring those two ¡°wings¡± in. They should line up nicely with the fold on one side of the little square in the center of the paper. Do that on both sides, tucking one of the ¡°wings¡± against the other. (They will not stay there until you do the next step.)
Next, on the two points that have the cuts, bring each tip forward, one at a time, over the top of the wings in front of them. All four tips should now be resting at the center and one half of the box is made. Repeat the process for the other half of the box and then put the two halves together (one facing down and the other facing up) to make one cake box. All you need to do now is bake the cake, slice a small piece of it, wrap it in cellophane and tuck it into the box.
Add your own personal finishing touches to your cake boxes. You can tie each one with a ribbon so it looks like a miniature gift box. You can write a personal message or the wedding date and your names on a heart, punch a hole in the corner with a paper punch and run the ribbon through the heart shape before you tie the bow. You can sponge-paint the cover to give it a textured look. You can even add gemstones to the exterior to make it a jewel box. And remember¡ you don¡¯t have to put cake in it. You can put a favor or some party mints or some other treat. Your guests will be delighted that you have a gift for them and that you made it yourself. |
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