Hi there,
I have done buttercream transfers a few times, and would like to do a different method of transferring a pattern onto a sheet cake.
I was wondering what the different options are. I'm not good at all doing freehand, so I would need a way of "tracing" the picture onto the cake and then decorating it.
thanks,
lisa
Hi there,
I have done buttercream transfers a few times, and would like to do a different method of transferring a pattern onto a sheet cake.
I was wondering what the different options are. I'm not good at all doing freehand, so I would need a way of "tracing" the picture onto the cake and then decorating it.
thanks,
lisa
You can do a gel transfer.
Instructions are on this site in the articles section.
http://www.cakecentral.com/article45-How-to-Decorate-with-Piping-Gel.html
You can do a piping gel transfer. You lay a piece of wax paper over your image, and outline it using tip 1 or 2. Take the wax paper and flip it upside down and lay on your cake where you want it to go. Lightly run your hand over it, and when you pull it away the piping gel will stay on the cake. You can then follow those lines and do your outlining.
You could do the same thing as above using royal icing and a piece of glass (instead of wax paper). Let the royal icing dry, and when you press it to your cake (with crusting icing) it will leave an imprint for you to follow.
You could also take your image and print/copy it on to cardstock paper. Make two copies of it. In one cut around the outside outline. You can use that to trace the basic outline on to the cake. Then you can cut out the different details and use those to outline them on to the cake.
There is also Color Flow, (Run In or Flood). This is where you outline your image (on wax paper) with full strength Color flow or Royal icing. You thin it down with water and fill in the outlines. They dry very hard, and need to be done in advance. Once dry you can remove from the paper, then use when you need to.
(http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesandprojects/icing/colorflow.cfm)
There is also the chocolate transfers. I can't remember if these are done like color flow, where the top of it as you work with it is the top that you put up on the cake. Or if it is like the frozen BCT where the bottom becomes the top.
There are also people that use projectors so that they can outline the image and then go from there.
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