Okay Im making a Dr. Suess cake for my daughter's 2nd bday (its june 11th), but we are trying to figure out how to make n umbrella skeleton/frame, for thing 1 to hold...we thought of trying those melting chocolates...so we are going to try that, is there anything else you all can think of?

Thanks Brenda

I wish I knew! Sorry!

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do (sorry )

Do you want it to be 2D or 3D? If 2D, then candy melts should do the trick. If you want it to be 3D, maybe try making the pieces out of gumpaste and attaching them together once they're dry.

With either, you can paint them with luster dust so they look like metal.

(at work, so no sketch but)

take a cue from the one of the pros who, on a Food Network Challenge, blew up balloons to the size needed and then pipe Royal Icing right onto the ballow an let it dry. Popped the balloon and had hollow Christmas ornaments.

so you'd take a balloon, blow up nice and big. pipe the frame on it -- i'd reccomend building it up with several layers. when dry remove from balloon...WARNING -- it will be very fragile.

the stem and hand can be a dowel rod to be sure you have enough support. glue the frame to the dowel w/ more royal.

HTH

Great ideas all, thank you... Doug that is awesome I 2would have never thought of that, I just gotta find a recipe for royal icing, thank you so much....you all are so smart and clever