Everytime I put a ribbon around a cake, it soaks up a lot of butter, and alters the color of the ribbon. Should I put wax paper around the cake before I put on the ribbon? Or maybe I should put scotch tape behind the ribbon? Anyone have this problem?

Thank you!!
Sandy

I did a wedding cake with ribbon around it, and after reading all the advice I could find on cc, I sprayed the ribbon with cooking spray, wiped off the excess before applying it to the cake. It did make the ribbon darker but it worked great.

hadn't seen the tip on cooking spray.... good idea

Another thing some people do is iron the ribbon. Take the ribbon, put wax paper over it and then a towel on top of that. Iron over the towel and continue down the length of your ribbon making sure you are using a new area on the wax paper as you go. This will seal the ribbon with the wax from the paper. I have yet to try it because by the time I get to the ribbons I am in a rush to just be done....

I usually use contact paper, works perfect! Stick your ribbon to the sticky side of the contact paper, adhere the end with bc works great.

Clear contact paper works great. Just trim of the excess paper and you are set to go. The contact paper can be found in the kitchen section at wal-mart....

I use packing tape...not only does it protect the ribbon, but it also stiffens it up a little and makes it easier to apply. Probably same principle as contact paper!

Why not ust use edible ribbon?

I'm a pammer.

and you can match fondant to the color and paint with pearl dust to make it satin-y... but it will never be exactly the same.

Hey, I wasn't debating, actually just publicly straddling the fence
I also gave a suggestion about the real ribbon as the OP requested.


wait a sec... where the hell did the rest of my post go? You can see the whole thing in the quote above but not in my post above that... what I was SAYING was that fondant ribbon of any sort will never be the same exact look of satin ribbon THEREFORE sometimes that's what the bride wants so that's what you give her. I highly doubt any "moderator" could have found that offensive but apparently they did so THANKS for editing my totally benign post without any note about it. Geez.

Lorimoms, you are right, this place is getting ... let's just call it weird... lately.

Hey Kory, I clicked on quote again on your previous message and it was wrong again!!! Give it a try...its very strange!

Yes, I originally typed all that and never went back to alter it. Its either a PC snafu or a moderator edit. either way, very strange.

it COMPLETLY changes the post!!! I wonder if a moderator changed it or does pearl dust replace the word paint or something?

Everything is screwed up on CC. There's a thread around here that's missing an entire page. That was weird getting into!

test pearl dust test test

and there you have it. it erased everything i typed after p e a r l dust.

Kory, if you hit the "quote" button on your "test" post, what I see between the quotes is "test test test".

Nice, so it erases for the public everything after PD and only quotes what it erased. so bizarre. I posted to technical support.