I love cakes with scrolls on them..they look so beautiful. I was wondering for those you that have done scroll work, where do you get your patterns from. I know that scrolls can look pretty bad if you dont do them right. i would like to try scrolls on my next cake. Any websites, hints or tips would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!!

If you are talking about what I think you are talking about; Wilton offers press sets that make it really easy:

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/department.cfm?id=3E305037-475A-BAC0-57F35B6A79A8B318&fid=3E305CD9-475A-BAC0-5072924E2EEEC1C0

I bought a set years ago and use a few of the designs pretty regularly.

thanks...anybody else?

In my photos I have a snow ball cake I made with
scrolls out of royal icing. It is to look like a cage around the snow ball.
I did them a few days ahead of time and just had a pattern I drew under wax paper.
I was following Colette Peters lead in her book CAKES TO DREAM ON.

The first time I did scroll work, I used the impression set.

Everytime after that, I've just freehanded it. My best advise is to just practice on a flat surface until you get the look you want.

I still have to work on the pressure issue. I prefer my scrolls to be thicker at the beginning and then tapering off where I end them but I haven't gotten that completely down yet.

As with everything else, practice, practice, practice!!

Lisa

I once made my own scrolls from some thin strips of lightweight cardboard (like that on a notebook cover) and curled it at either end the way I wanted the scroll to look, then made impressions in my frosting to use as a guide. It worked ok, but I'd still like to find some fancy scrolls made from stiff plastic so they can't flex when pushing into the frosting. If I had to do it again, I'd probably do the cardboard thing again. It made the job so much easier when I could stamp the cake the way I wanted, then pipe over the impressions later.