Wood Grain Effect On Buttercream?????
Decorating By bfisher11 Updated 10 Mar 2007 , 5:36pm by Steady2Hands
Can anyone help me please. I have a basketball themed cake to do for tomorrow. I am going for a basketball court, but I'm not sure how to make the wood grain effect on BC. I have an airbrush if that helps anyone to help me! Thank You everyone in advance!
Brandy
Brown will do it's own streaking if it's used fairly quickly after mixing. Here's a couple of cakes I did that with only the brown is much darker than you would want for a gym floor. You can kindof see the streaks in the pics. They were more noticable in person.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=Steady2Hands&cat=0&pos=19
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=Steady2Hands&cat=0&pos=22
Here's 2 other suggestions:
1. Use the big icer tip to apply the "floor". Then lightly smooth with a sponge paint roller (Melvira Method). If you do it lightly you should have lines in the icing where the edges meet together. That should make the "board" look.
2. Do a FBCT. You could get a lot of color variation that way and still have streaks.
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