I am making this cake this weekend and was wondering what I should use to make the #1 on top like this cake has? I was thinking fondant but that wouldnt hold up very well. Maybe gumpaste?

Gumpaste....or 50/50. Give it a couple of days to dry though!

I would use chocolate, I love using melted chocolate!

You could buy the pre-colored stuff and tint the fondant to be the same color.

Thanks for posting this. I always wondered what those numbers were made of. How does it "attach" to the cake? I know if you use chocolate you can use a lolly stick, but what about 50/50?

You can use a lolly stick to attach 50/50 also, you would attach it with royal or candy (I think) or if it's thick enough, just stick it into the number... I would use a template and cut it out of 50/50 and let it dry on a flat surface for a couple of days... If I only needed the royal for a lolly and didn't have candy handy, I would just pipe a "glob" (for lack of a better word) of buttercream and just stand it up with that, it wouldn't be very sturdy that way, though.

You can use a lolly stick to attach 50/50 also, you would attach it with royal or candy (I think) or if it's thick enough, just stick it into the number... I would use a template and cut it out of 50/50 and let it dry on a flat surface for a couple of days... If I only needed the royal for a lolly and didn't have candy handy, I would just pipe a "glob" (for lack of a better word) of buttercream and just stand it up with that, it wouldn't be very sturdy that way, though.

Thank you T-Bird!

I use these a ton. I use fondant mixed with a little tylose powder. I use Microsoft Word and print a template for the number/letter I want to use. Cut it out with an Xacto knife, roll my fondant to a number 2 or 3 on my pasta machine and cut around the template with the xacto knife.

I let it dry for a few days and attach a sucker stick to the back with royal icing. I let that dry for a day and put it in the cake.

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