RECENTLY I'VE BEEN SEEING A LOT OF ICING PLAQUES ON CAKES. BOWEEN JUST RECENTLY POSTED A BUNCH OF CAKES WITH THEM. CAN ANYONE FILL ME IN ON HOW THESE ARE MADE?

You can make them out of thinned royal icing or roll out MMF, cut to shape and dry.

Boween Makes hers out of fondant. She cuts the plaque out of fondant according the shape that she needs a day or so a head of time to let it dry. Boween will attach the picture to the fondant with piping gel and will then let it dry. I have also done it where I have attached the shape after the fondant is dried. It really depends on what you are doing. Then use royal icing, you could also use candy melts, and attach a wooden craft stick to the back if you are going to need it to stand up.

hope this helps.

Hi.. Boween I believe uses 50/50.. But I have used fondant.. like said above, cutting according to your shape. and I let mine dry for about 2 days to harden.. it's fairly easy..

But what is the picture made of??? It looks like hers are printed they're so perfect?

I think boween prints out edible pictures on her printer. Someone else can give you more details on this. I do not have one, but have read about them on this site. Search the forums for edible images.

Boween posted step by step on her plaques
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-13474-.html

Here is the first link to what Boween posted about icing image plaques:
Follow the instructions from bottom of message to the top.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopic-13474-0.html

Here is the link to second post by Boween:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-13475.html

Briansbaker, Looks like we were typing at same time.

LOL yup.. Boween is an amazing woman.. She has so much talent!! She is the QUEEN OF CAKES!

Great thanks so much everyone, so i guess my last annoying question would be...does it have to be an edible image? Can I do the same with an image from my printer (obviously tell the customer not to eat it)???

I am not sure if the ink of your paper will work.. I didnt have piping gel at hand, I just used water to place my edible images onto the fondant.. BUT I would think reg. Ink would probably smear if it touched anything wet.. You might want to try a sample one first.. Or maybe you can laminate the photo first then apply it to the plaque with some royal icing or with some melted white choc. and add a border with royal icing so that you don't see the edges.
Good Luck and let us know how it turned out!