Camo ... How Do You Do It ?
Decorating By brightbrats Updated 19 Apr 2007 , 11:36am by gunnersgirl5578
I saw tons of cute cakes on here with deers and the background was Camo.
How do you do the camo ? Is there a certain technique ? Do you have a pattern ? Or what.
I am doing a deer cake this week-end for a 13 year old, his mother wants a sheet cake, so I thought this design would be great.
If anyone could tell me how it is done, I would greatly appreciate it.
I have pm'd a couple of people but I haven't had any response yet. So hopefully someone else can help out.
Thanks, Lisa
BC or fondant?
BC -- just pipe random odd shaped pools of color and smooth
fondant -- see this thread
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-39743-camo.html
and if possible borrow a hunter friend's jacket to get a reference for the pattern.
HTH
I found it to be very easy. I used a 3 or 4 tip and piped ciruclar type designs all over the cake in black. I then piped in tip 16 stars using green, black, tan, and brown in alternating place. I have a pic in my gallery. Good luck!
oops its not in my gallery, but here is a link to a post that has a pic of it.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-153701-.html
See my cake at the following link and I have tips on there how I did it.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=bjfranco&cat=0&pos=32
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Should I still use the crusting Bc or another ?
It doesn't want to pool out very good, appears to thick.
But if I thin it down, will I still be able to smooth it out, without sticking to the roller, or whatever I use ?
I did a camo cake a while back. All I did was load my bags w/ my different BC colors & put #4 tips on all of them, piped a random design but made sure the same color wouldn't run together. Filled it in & used a paintbrush to smooth it. Once I was done w/ the whole cake, I use a Viva papertowel to smooth the whole thing.
my take on a camo cake:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_165593.html
I don't know if you have access to an airbrush, but that's how I do mine for the background then stripe my greeen bag with brown and black for the border.
There are a couple of different ones in my pics. Good luck and be sure to post your pic when your done. K'ly
I recently did a camo cake for a co-worker. As for the pattern, I just did a random print using black brown and green with tip 16. I believe I have a picture. hope this helps!
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