Wondering How To Use These So They Don't Go Through
Decorating By Speeknot Updated 19 Mar 2007 , 6:31pm by LeeAnn
I have been asked to make this cake. I have no problem using the fondant, the flowers I can get already made (I know it is cheating, but I haven't mastered gumpaste flowers) and I can do the little embellishments. How do I do the glasses so they don't go through the fondant? I am sorry if someone has asked this before, I just have been searching these boards for two days now with little luck.
Thanks in advance!
Unless that bottom tier is a styrofoam dummy, I can't tell how they have those glasses supported.
Maybe they might have put a dowel-supported seperator plate on top of the bottom tier and then covered with fondant or icing, but that seems kinda strange - and probably pretty hard to cover the seperator plate without the impression of the plate showing in some way.
I've mostly seen a small seperator plate placed on top of the fondant or buttercream and then the glasses placed on it. That is a very pretty cake, though.
I was thinking you could put a cardboard cake circle on top, frost and then cover with fondant like normal? I don't know...just putting ideas out there.
I really couldn't tell anything from the pic as to how they did it, but depending on the size of the glasses you are useing, maybe you can use flower nails.
County kitchen makes white plastic ones that might work kinda like dowels if the bottom layer is just the right height.
Good Luck!!
If you put something like a separator plate or cardboard circle under the fondant, how do you serve the cake without removing the fondant first?
The picture isn't really good for seeing what was done, but I think that there is a ribbon around the glass rim on the bottom tier. I wonder if that is hiding something like a pillar/dowel rod glued to the inside rim of the glass? You could use some sort of adhesive to attach the correct length of dowel to the glass, which would then make the glass/dowel assembly act like those push-in pillars. Just a thought.
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Since the glasses are supporting more cake on top, I would use a plastic or other hard material plate. Cardboard, if not covered or thick enough, is going to give under the weight and also will soak up the grease from the icing (if using BC) and will get soggy. The flower nails seems like a good idea too, but how would you keep them stable, they'll tend to lean in all different directions when you start trying to put those glasses on them (if the glasses don't sit down completely around them altogether), wouldn't they?
I have done that with BC. I cut a cake circle the same size as the glass put a dowel in the cake place the circle ontop and ice the cake you will be able to see the circle under the icing. Place the glass ontop making sure it is level. Then add the upper level. You can do the same with fondant, I have seen the info in one of the UK magazines that I have.
If you put something like a separator plate or cardboard circle under the fondant, how do you serve the cake without removing the fondant first? RedPanda
I was thinking that as well...you'd either have to tear the cake up to serve it or it's going to pull off any BC you might have under the plate.
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