Hi, I need to make a snowflake cake this week and I'm interesting in finding out the best way to make snowflakes. I did a search and most of the posts are gone.

Is it better to do RI snowflakes, candymelt snowflakes with a mold, gumpaste using a cookie cutter and piping the design with RI or using a paper punch? What about doing snowflakes out of rice paper like those beautiful butterflies they make? Will the rice/wafer paper melt with the BC frosting?

Thanks for all your help!

It depends on how big you need them. I have done them in choco; some in royal & some piped right on the cake in b'cream. What's your poision??

I have a 4 layer cake, 9-12" rounds and would like to place the snowflakes from smallest to biggest down the side like an arrangement of flowers. Maybe from 1" to 3". I'm leaning towards using a paper punch to punch out GP snowflakes, what do you think?

I found this picture online, sorry I don't know who made it and think the snowflakes are made out of rice paper. They look very thin and nice.

They do look like rice paper..Its a beautiful cake.
Edna

Rice/wafer paper can buckle w/handling or any moisture.
I think those are made w/very thin rolled fondant &/or gp; parts are cut out w/aspic cutters to make the design.

Hi. I made my snowflakes from very thinly rolled gumpaste and a patchwork cutter. They dried beautifully and handled well with no breakages. I dusted them in "Snow" Mystical Dust.

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1257701

Hope that helps!

Those are beautiful snowflakes. Thank you for the idea.

KoryAK made these beautiful snowflakes with a punch hole. Thanks KoryAK for posting an upclose picture of them.

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1294693

This is the route I'm taking since they look so good and easy to make. I bought the punch but it's only about an inch so I'll probably have to make some with a 2" cutter. Let's see how it goes.

I found a thread with the heading: "I hate snowflakes". I think I'm adding myself to that list.

OK, I made a batch of tylose GP and tried to roll it out very thin (paper thin) with no avail. Then I tried the pasta roller, I have a cheap one from Michaels (or maybe JoAnn's) that goest up to 7. I used #3 and still the GP was not thin enough to put through the punch hole cavity. I tried using setting #2 put the machine was crumbling the GP. I finally decided to stick with #3 setting and then roll it out with the roller. This worked better but still had problems. Also, I had to roll out some GP let it dry for about 5 mins. and then put it through the pasta machine so that it would come out smoother and not sticking to the rollers.

I made about 90 snowflakes with a metal cutter. This method worked better and faster. Then I "glued" the small paper thin GP snowflakes to the bigger snowflake so that the bigger snowflake could have a design.

In all it took me about 4 hours to do about 100 paper thin 1" snowflakes, 90 regular 3" and 6 bigger ones (4-5").

Yes, now I hate snowflakes and hate the fact that I didn't charge enough for the cake.

I'll post a pic of the snowflakes later in the week.

I just want to share the pic of the cake with the snowflakes. Thanks everyone!

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1296375

That is a beautiful cake--as with all of your cakes!