I want some sand to go round the base of a spongebob cake. I was thinking brown sugar but how would I get it to stick on just use edible glue?

Anyone done this and have great ideas much appreciated.Ta

Hi there! I would probably try to use something other than the brown sugar as it has such a bold taste and may melt or get sticky if exposed to humidity - even after being in a fridge. I would suggest crushed up teddy grahams. They work perfectly. Just use your Cuisinart to crush, or even put in a baggie and crush with a mallet. They taste good and seem to meld well with typical cake flavors. Hope this helps! : )

Welcome Jayne -

You can brush your cake board with sugar glue and then sprinkle brown sugar or raw sugar or crushed brown rice or crushed plain sweet biscuits or crushed dry biscuits.

By mixing a few of the above it gives your *sand* a textured effect and a more depth to the colour.

Bluehue

I usually use graham cracker crumbs for sand. If you want darker/wetter look, you can mix some melted butter in it (like for making a crust) and then you can mold it a bit.

I have used a mixture of brown sugar and graham cracker crumbs. My clients seem to like it and it serves as it's own "glue" if you press it into place gently.

HTH
Dave

can also use crushed snickerdoodle cookies!

White sugar mixed with cinnamon.

Raw sugar works really good... tack down with a thin bit of piping gel.

I think I've come up with the perfect sand: 1c white sugar, 1c brown sugar, 2-3 chocolate wafer cookies (or oreo cookies w/o the filling) & 2-3 ginger wafer cookies (or ginger snaps)...grind the wafers down to a fine crumble and mix with the sugars. It looks like real California sand (from the clean beaches, obviously )! You can see it on my Spongebob cake in my gallery here, as well as on my website.

Oh, and it'll keep for years in an air tight container.

I use piping gel and then I spread the Brown Sugar!!

Ohh, Blue if you've never had a snickerdoodle, you've never been in love. Okay, maybe it's not that serious, but they are darn good!

http://www.joyofbaking.com/Snickerdoodles.html

Mandy - Your sand is fabuous! So real looking.

Jayne - If you want to see crushed graham crackers, you can look at my seashell cake.

Thank you all for your replies lots of things for me to try out although I have no idea what graham crackers or teddy grahams are being from the Uk. Snickerdoodles I have made yum.
thanks again

I love using brownulated sugar.... you can find it by the brown sugar. It tastes like br. sugar, but is not gritty. I usually use a bit of clear piping gel and stick 'er down with that.

Hope that helps -

Jen

Completely aside- our new fav is the Snickerdoodle Cake recipe here on CC! I tried it out two weeks ago as cupcakes, and have made them 3 times since! I plan to send some with DH to office for Valentines, then have GOT to loose that recipe!!!!!!