Can anyone explain how to paint a tattoo design on fondant cakes?
Anytime that I need to write on fondant I will take a little vanilla extract or lemon (depends on what favor cake and BC or ganash I am using) and and put some color gels with it and use a good paint brush so you don't leave bristels and go to town. that is just my opinion. HTH
I saw Mary on cake girls take a pic and place parchment over top and take a needle and punch holes all around the pic design so that when you place the parchment over the fondant?gp you can paint over the holes and then remove carefully and go back and finish handpainting it, I cant paint for anything and if you look at my Michael Jackson cake, the photo of him, this is how I did it! HTH
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1952937/1952951
Hello,
I made this cake for a tattoo enthusiat friend's birthday and I painted using petal dust and vodka... worked out great and really allowed me to mix colors very well. She loved it!
Here's a link to my facebook page (there are 2 pictures) hopefully it works.
If not than check out my pictures on here, it's there.
S.
I saw Mary on cake girls take a pic and place parchment over top and take a needle and punch holes all around the pic design so that when you place the parchment over the fondant?gp you can paint over the holes and then remove carefully and go back and finish handpainting it, I cant paint for anything and if you look at my Michael Jackson cake, the photo of him, this is how I did it! HTH
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1952937/1952951
I have also done this technique, it depends on what is more comfortable for you. I usually free hand and going from one tier to the other, it is usually stacked first, but more than three layers I you would have to do a little work onsite in order to make lines meet up. HTH
Two more ways to transfer a pattern to your cake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqbDTaauGO0&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLjml6TvQ8&feature=relmfu
You can paint with airbrush colors, already thinned down, ready to use.
airbrush colors are already thinnned down, but if you want to further thin it use vodka...I dont find it necessary to thin it more however
You can paint with airbrush colors, already thinned down, ready to use.
may i ask how you thin it down?
I think TexasSugar means that the airbrush colors are already thinned down and you don't have to do anything, they're ready to use.
Two more ways to transfer a pattern to your cake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqbDTaauGO0&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLjml6TvQ8&feature=relmfu
I know that I had seen somene on a tutorial somewhere that also used a hot glue gun to out line a picture and than once it was out lined, pressed image into the butter cream. It looked simple enough but have never tried it, and am really not sure weather how food safe it is either, usless you'd put suran wrap onto cake first and than press image onto cake, I would feel better about that!
Two more ways to transfer a pattern to your cake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqbDTaauGO0&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLjml6TvQ8&feature=relmfu
I know that I had seen somene on a tutorial somewhere that also used a hot glue gun to out line a picture and than once it was out lined, pressed image into the butter cream. It looked simple enough but have never tried it, and am really not sure weather how food safe it is either, usless you'd put suran wrap onto cake first and than press image onto cake, I would feel better about that!
That's kind of crazy. I wonder why you would do that when there's royal icing? It dries as hard as the glue I'm sure. I haven't heard of many glues that are non-toxic. Sometimes I worry what has been done to the cakes I eat that I haven't made at home!
you can paint with straight gel colors too. you have to a add a little white to it to make it opaque unless you're using black. No need to thin it either
Two more ways to transfer a pattern to your cake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqbDTaauGO0&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLjml6TvQ8&feature=relmfu
I know that I had seen somene on a tutorial somewhere that also used a hot glue gun to out line a picture and than once it was out lined, pressed image into the butter cream. It looked simple enough but have never tried it, and am really not sure weather how food safe it is either, usless you'd put suran wrap onto cake first and than press image onto cake, I would feel better about that!
That's kind of crazy. I wonder why you would do that when there's royal icing? It dries as hard as the glue I'm sure. I haven't heard of many glues that are non-toxic. Sometimes I worry what has been done to the cakes I eat that I haven't made at home!
I thought so too, never did ask about it so maybe that's the reason never tried it just didn't seem right!
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