ok so i am doing a cake for sept 26 and it is going to be fondant covered square cake with real ribbon at the bottom. i need to know how to attach it

Don't ribbon with the wire in it. I may be just bad at it, but it cuts into the cake. I originally thought the wire would help hold the shape, but it was almost a total disaster.

I just wrap the ribbon around the base and attach it in the back with a blop of icing.

thanks and there is no wire in this ribbon it can from davids bridal and i just do not want to mess it up has anyone ever used the double sides sticky square like in scrap booking

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I always attach it with two small pins. I let the customer know about the pins so they make sure to take them out before cutting/eating!

I put a black ribbon around my sisters wedding cake and it was a pain! I wish I would've just made a fondant ribbon. It rippled and refused to stay flush with the cake. I finally just "painted" the back of the entire ribbon with buttercream to make it stick. I worked but I ended up with a few dark patches from the grease. I wish I would've know about CC and all these great tips everyone shares back then!

I have used wired ribbon and I think it worked fine. The picture of Veronica's cake is a wired ribbon. I ironed the ribbon with wax paper (a tip from this site - thanks!) and the buttercream grease did not show through the ribbon. I also attached the ribbon with double-sided tape. I am not sure if that held up through the whole wedding. I know when setting up the cake, I had to go back and re-tape it twice and then I had to break a few toothpicks to hold it. So - I would say that didn't work the greatest - but it was an outside wedding and it was 95 degrees, so that may have had something to do with it too. Good luck with whatever you choose!

so how do you do the wax paper thing

Somewhere on here someone described it. What I did was take a brown paper bag, a piece of wax paper, with the waxy side down, and a hot iron. I laid out as much ribbon as I thought I would need, put the wax paper on top of the ribbon, tore the bag into wide strips and placed a strip over the area I was going to iron. Ran the iron across the paper bag, wax paper and ribbon and repeated until all the ribbon had a wax coating. You can't really see the wax coating, but if you put your ribbon right up against the cake without a coating, the grease will soak through. Putting the wax coating on the ribbon seemed to stop the problem.

I hope that helps!

so after i do this will i be able to use bc to attach the ribbon to the cake

i use piping gel. i wrap the ribbon around and overlap the ends with piping gel. i have never had a problem with it.

I use the clear pipng gel to attach mine. That stuff is good and sticky.

You can also use a little RI with 2 pins to hold it in place until it dries and remove the pins. I would NEVER give a cake to a customer with pins in it, even if you do tell them. There is too much room for human error. Someone could forget and that is just a recipe for disaster.

I will never use pins to attach ribbons. Actually, I wouldn't use a real ribbon for my cakes.

Anyways, I suggest you overlap both ends of the ribbon and attach double sided tape.