I love silhouettes. Does anyone have any techniques on applying silhouettes on a cake? Is it better or easier to draw them on fondant or on a sugar gumpaste plaque? Or to use a stencil? Any suggestions or guidance is highly appreciated. Thanks so much.

How to transfer images to cakes:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-586438-.html

HTH

I used edible images on my ballet cake but my next ones will be cut on the Cricut

I love doing silhouettes. I've always done a royal icing transfer.

I've gotten most, if not all, of mine from google images and photobucket. There are lots of great ones for Valentine's day, maternity, etc,,

http://images.google.com/images?q=silhouette&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us%3AIE-SearchBox&um=1&sa=1&q=valentine+silhouette&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us%3AIE-SearchBox&um=1&sa=1&q=wedding+silhouette&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1&start=0

I have found tons of great flourishes and even Damask patterns!

chilz822, thank you so much, you are so kind to help out

No prob, anytime!

Cricut is a tool primarily used by scrapbookers for shape cutting on cardstock and papers. Thanks to ingenius folks like Linda McClure, they have figured out how to use it to cut gumpaste and fondant.

Go to youtube and search the word Cricut and you'll see many videos showing the machine in action. There is also a Cricut made specifically for cakes coming in April...

Ive got this same issuse coming up this weekend! Glad you posted it. Except my silouettes are going to be rather small and detailed.

Dont mean to hijack the thread, but does anyone know which method of transfer would be best suited for an image with fine details going on the side of a cake? This is the image Im using. Not the whole image, just about 6 dancers or so, but they are going to be in black like a silouette on the cake.

This is the cake idea

make a template and hand cut the out of black fondant/gumpaste with an x-acto knife once you get started, it should get easier.

The fishing silhouette in my pictures, the fishing one I did in gumpaste. It's actually sitting in front of the setting sun. I tried doing it in fondant but it didn't get firm enough. I attached lollipop sticks to the back with a strip of the same colored gumpaste and tylose glue.

thanks for all the links....