Hi! i'm doing a fondant beach themed birthday cake for monday & I want the ocean water/wave effect to look like this one in the picture by David's cake of distinction.. i believe it's royal icing but how do i do it to have the same effect? thank you very much for any tip/tutorial ...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=211545198916522&set=a.143737449030631.35935.143706765700366&type=3&theater

bobbie

I would do it in buttercream. I'd start piping the bottom layer, and then build up from there using diffuerent shades and tapering into the wave patterns. You can use a damp brush to blend the piping together. And a smaller tip on the little white details around it all.

thanks texas sugar..i thought of the damp brush too.. you think, r.i. is not the way to go?.. my bc recipe doesn't hold up much to our hot weather..& all shortening bc comes out grainy

Honestly I would use buttercream, but I guess it could be done in royal.

The only problem with royal is that you would have a lot of hard crunchy icing over the cake.

looking at the waves on the cake...I think I would try a can of compressed air to "sculpt" some of the more intricate details of the waves ...and also to get a more realistic effect.

Just a thought.

sweetsadie, thanks.. but i'm not familiar w/ the "compressed air" technique

bobbie