My mom is making my best friends grooms cake (although it will look more like a wedding cake).
It will be a 8" and a 10" cake stacked ontop of each other. Anyway, the design she wants on it is a bunch of straigh lines (it is what's on her invitation). My mom is worried about free handing it since it would be very hard to keep it straight. So I heard on here about FBCT (isn't that the initials). Anyway, do you think that's her best option?

Could you post a picture of the design? I'm not really sure what you mean.

She could make lines by gently pressing a straight egde into it and piping over them. I agree, a picture would help if you can post one!

might be kinda tricky to do a frozen buttercream transfer on the side of the cake.......at least a continuous design would be pretty hard........is she opposed to using fondant??? That's pretty easy to use a ruler as a straight edge and a pizza cutter to make nice straight strips of it.......and then simply put them on the side of the cake

Sorry took me awhile to reply but I had to scan the invitation for the design... Sorry if it looks grainy (I don't know how to fix that) but you get the idea... Thanks for helping me/my mom!!!

Oh and the bride prefers no fondant...

ok I've tried to attach the picture 2x let me try to copy and past it...

ok that's not working... How do I attach a picture... I hit add attachment, then browsed open the pic and it had the file name in there then hit add attachment again and it's just not adding it! HELP

I was just going to say fondant ... I just made a striped cake with fondant ..... maybe she is turned off to fondant because she has only had wilton stuff .. the mmf is so much better .... I like the idea of making a light indentation with a straight edge

redhare: is it too big maybe? It can't be more than 800 x 800 pixels I think. Try resizing it & see if that helps

Any time I've needed straight lines I use a ruler and make an indentation into my icing and pipe over that. That way you can see your design before you pipe over the lines and make any corrections before hand. The ruler I use is only used for this purpose.

Maybe you could make the lines in royal icing agead of time and let them tdry, then place on cake?

You could transfer the pattern onto the cake. Then just trace

Depending how difficult the pattern, thyterrell, suggestion sounds like it would work.

Not sure what kind of lines you're looking to do (did you post a pic?). I had a wedding cake, that the bride wanted pinstriping all around the cake... I used a pattern press (w/ lines) and piped over it. I mixed a fair amount to piping gel to the buttercream, to get less breakage. I still had some repairs to do when I arrived, but I think it came out fine. Just a thought, didn't know if that would help.

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=cakesbyallison&cat=0&pos=0

Redhare,

Maybe you could use a cake comb to draw the lines and then overpipe?

OT, but cakesbyallison, all your cakes are lovely, but the last one you posted is especially nice. How did you get your monogram so perfect?

Why not use candy clay. Since it's chocolate who would mind that? You can roll it out thin just like fondant. Use a pizza cutter & ruler to make strips. You can find the recipe for candy clay here http://cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1985-Candy-Clay-for-Modeling--3D-Figures.html?osCsid=e2da3c49fcdbc566ce9cb5246007dd23