I'm doing a surfboard cake tomorrow and I've got to duplicate the "Natural Art" on the board. What will be the best way to achieve this? I can't get the pic to attach but it's pretty artsy. They want buttercream instead of fondant but I can use fondant accents. Buttercream transfer maybe? TIa

Can you paint it?

you can't paint on buttercream can you??

Depending on what the text looks like this may or may not work, but I do a lot of letters with royal icing. I print out the exact size I want them to be on a piece of paper (with extra space b/w letters) and then put a piece of wax paper over it (taped to the counter so it doesn't shift). Then I pipe/trace over the print out. You could use a brush to help shape or fill in the letters as need be. Then dry, peel and stick on the cake.

As for painting on buttercream, I haven't ever done it, but have read others posting about how it can be done, so that may be worth searching for...

P.S. Royal icing can be painted with food color (or pearl dust) and vodka. Just don't over saturate it with the liquid when painting.

WOW! that is awesome!

I painted the trees and black grass on my grim reaper cake..bottom of 1st page of my gallery. I also used airbrush color.