My mother in law wants me to make a fish cake for the fish derby near their house and she has one of those gold/bronze pans in the shape of a fish... would that work well? I've never used one of those pans... also, what would you recommend using? Buttercream or fondant? Thanks!
I'm not sure that is an actual "baking" pan. If it's what I'm thinking of it is a copper finish, right? I really don't know if I would trust that.
You can pick up a Pantastic Fish Pan for about $4-5 at your local cake store OR go online (google pantastic). When I do MY fish pan I first use white chocolate and "mold" it in the fish pan. Then I bake the cake in the pan. Ice the sides and top of the cake. I then "paint" the fish with gel colors and/or cocoa butter and powdered icing and finish up by dusting either gold or silver with luster dust. Then just put the chocolate mold on top of the fish and VOILA!! Done!
I'm sure there are other pictures in the galleries on CC where you could see how to "carve" a fish from a sheet cake.
Hope this helps.
Beth in KY
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I have never used one of those pans, but I would not see why not. I was thinking if you had the football shaped pan, you could use that, and then using fondant, make a flourish goldfish tail that just lays on the board directly. I don't know if I'm making sense...
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