Hi everyone! I know someone on here told me what was the BEST tip to use for fur (not the grass one)! Can you please tell me again!

Thanks,

Joan

I have a dog cake coming up soon - so I could use the help as well. Thanks!!

Why not use the grass tip? I've never done dog fur with it but I'm sure it could work....

Take a look at this photo, I believe she used a grass tip for this little guys fur!
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1344993.html

You can use the star tip. This is a bad comparison, BUT have you seen those Walmart cupcakes? It's two cupcakes frosted with a star tip to look like a white dog. I think the star tip is also what they use for the cupcake dogs on the cover of "Hello Cupcake."

That's just scary. It looks dead, with the tongue hanging out like that.

Have you seen the hello cupcake book? It looks like they used a leaf tip for the fur to me (at least the size of the pic on line does):

Here's the book:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618829253/?tag=cakecentral-20

I've done a lot of fur and there is nothing more realistic than the grass tip. See my dogs on this cake:
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1013413

I have seen a star tip used, a small one, where you draw out long (maybe one inch or so) snakes for fur like the boy's hair on this cake I made.
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1241657

I have also seen the leaf tip but that seems to work better for a feather look.

I just can't imagine what other effect you might be looking for.

Thank you everyone for your replies!

Loved seeing your cake examples! I found my tip that I thought I had lost! LOL It's the 233 and I guess it's for grass or fur!

You guys ROCK!

Joan

I just attended a cake carving demo by Bronwen Weber earlier this week, she demoed, of all things, a dog cake. She did it in an 1 1/2 and it looked awesome.

The question of dog fur did come up, and although she airbrushed hers, she suggested creating dog fur by brushing on buttercream icing (*with a fan brush) onto your fondant covered dog cake.

Click on my blog link below to see pics of Bronwen's dog cake and a run down of the evening

I used star tip #21 on my sculpted dog cake. I think it gave it a nice effect

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1380547

Wow. sugar_cove, it's pretty cool that you attended a demo by Bronwen Weber And the fan brush idea sounds like a good idea. I'm sure I will do a dog cake again later, so next time i'll try that. Thanks for the tip

Does anyone know what tip Buddy used on Cake Boss for the rabbit's fur?

for goodness sakes.. someone said the doggie from the wal mart was scarry. hello? the one from bronwen webbers class.. is "SCARRY".. not even pretty..but that is jmo.... ha!

I can't stop laughing! Sounds like we've all seen our fair share of scary edible animals!