OK, I need your expertise. I made a Hello Kitty cake (I'll try to attach it to the message, but if not, it's the most recent one in my gallery). I did it with a BCT, which, honestly, turned out great. Here's the problem. Hello Kitty has whiskers. I made them from black icing that I put on after the bct was applied, but it didn't look great. Because it was a bct, it was about 1/4" higher than the cake icing, so when the whiskers left HK's face and extended out, they drooped and I just wasn't totally happy.

I should mention that it's a little hard to see in this picture because I took the picture from directly above so it didn't look so bad. But if you look, you'll see what I mean.

How would you have done them? Royal? That's the only thing I thought of afterwards.

Thanks Everyone!

I typically use black shoesting licorice for whiskers.

String Licorice works well, also if you want them to stand more pipe icing over thin spagetti. Slide your spagetti into tip 3 and as you pull it out pipe the icing onto the spagetti. This can be used even if you want it to stand straight up.

I painted on spaghetti to use as support for letters on my elmo cake (see my photos). You could just paint some spaghetti or pasta to use as the whiskers.

Great ideas!

Thanks Everyone!!!

I use spaghetti or black shoestring licorice too, but I have trouble finding black shoestring licorice. Where do you have the best luck finding it.