How do I do this effectively without making them look all distorted and uneven???
Hi wcgirl,
I haven't done this yet myself but have a book that shows a really simple way of making it. Just roll out the fondant into a long log shape. Take a skewer and indent the log spaced evenly at a slight angle all the way down it. It looks just perfectly like a rope.
Hope the helps.
KimAZ
Thanks for the reply, although I didn't actually mean "rope" per say, I'm a little bit loopy tonight! I meant snakes. Like just a really long smooth rounded snake I can wrap around the bottom of a cake...
cakemommy is right! It does just take practice. You have to learn the right pressure and kind of work from your fingertips back towards your knuckles, don't know if that makes sense but it doesn' take much pressure and just keep pressure even as you roll down your log.
I'll have to look it up! I'm assuming it's metal? I have a cheap small green one used for polymer clay and nothing can be squeezed through that. I don't even know how they can call that a clay gun. It won't even squeeze playdough! 
The thing is, I don't know the diameter a working clay gun has. The ropes I make for my cake are relatively long and twisting them could make them thin in spots and split.
Amy
I'll have to look it up! I'm assuming it's metal? I have a cheap small green one used for polymer clay and nothing can be squeezed through that. I don't even know how they can call that a clay gun. It won't even squeeze playdough!
The thing is, I don't know the diameter a working clay gun has. The ropes I make for my cake are relatively long and twisting them could make them thin in spots and split.
Amy
Yes, the important parts are metal, but it's mostly plastic. I had one of those crappy green guns and threw it in the garbage as fast as I could. What a POS.
The Sugarcraft gun comes with a bazillion discs. There's even a rope disc that is awesome if your rope is a single color. Since it doesn't have a big capacity, you'll have to piece long ropes together. If you cut the meeting ends on a diagonal, you can hide the seam.
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