I've got a six tiered buttercream cake coming up next week and three of the tiers are styrofoam dummies. I've never worked with dummies, but I was thinking that I could just apply the buttercream straight to the dummies and smooth just like a real cake. Is that how everyone does it or is there something I need to do to the styrofoam before applying the buttercream? I would hate for my buttercream to slide off or a similar disaster! Thanks for any advice!

Thanks so much CWR!!!

I've made 100s of styro dummies covered in b'cream As has been said, no special treatment is needed.
It can make it a bit difficult to clean the styro when you are ready to change styles but I've not found any other way that works well.

Thanks kakeladi!

I did it for the first time this past year.
You just ice it straight away.
It's a piece of cake, well, but then again....

I've done it too - no prep required.