I am doing a wedding cake. The bride wants it to look as close to this as possible. Any Ideas on the peacock feathers? Is there something under the feathers and pipping over it? PLEASE give me any tips. Here is a link to the cake .

http://styleunveiled.com/blog/2009/10/2/peacock-feather-wedding-cake.html

I'm a total newbie so I'm just guessing....

But I wonder if the ovals of the feathers are FBCT? I also wonder if while it's still frozen, you go back with a toothpick and create those lines or rather grooves.

It just seems like if you tried to make the grooves while it was wet, you would pull the colors into one another and I don't see that happening.

I hope that helps, perhaps someone might have a better idea.

It looks to me that it's just individual piped lines with a tiny round tip. If I were you, I would try to contact the original designer and ask for advice - I know many others who have done the same and gotten good replies.

http://www.cakecoquette.com
http://blog.cakecoquette.com/

Considering the mad piping skills on this artist's other cakes I'm going to go out on a limb and say the entire thing is piped.

Wow, you'll need to charge a bundle for this style. Tons of piping with the smallest tip ever. I would take a half fondant half gumpaste shape and pipe it on a flat surface then when dry, transfer it to the cake. Piping the tiny lines while flat will give your shaking hand more control.

The good news is that the cake I am doing is only 2 tiers.... Thank goodness. How do you suppose the gold is so gold? Its hard to decipher how the colors separate. Does that make sense?

She explained some things here:

http://blog.cakecoquette.com/2009/09/peacock-wedding-cakes-are-hot.html

And you can enlarge the close-up.

I contacted her and she was more then happy to tell me about her cake. I love nice people. She said all it was is gold luster dust. Sweet. The centers are fondant. Thanks for the link on the details also! Now I am less stressed. Cake is to be made for May6th.

Wow I just had a request for a cake similar to this as welll, so glad I remembered this post from last week.