I have just finished the Wilton class 1 so I am pretty new to all of this. My ds's 5th birthday is coming up in April so I have been looking for ideas for his cake that a starter like myself can create. I was looking through the Birthday Express catalog yesterday and found this Scooby Doo cake. My ? is...how do I ice a cake like this? Any help is welcome and I may not even use this idea but was very curious since it looks so cool!
I haven't taken the fondant class yet but have heard it tastes horrible. I was hoping to figure out how to do this w bc icing but if it is fondant I guess I will just have to wait.
I have done a tye dye effect by icing the cake white and then putting drops of gel food color and swirling with my spatula.
This particular cake, however, looks like fondant to me. You could easily do it with bc, though, as described above.
HTH!
Lisa
The location where I took the class 1 only teaches classes 2&3 alternately. Since class 2 was being taught during class one I have to skip to class 3 so I will be able to learn fondant before my ds's birthday. I will try the MMF and maybe it will work. One of you said something about an airbrush. Are these expensive, where do I find one and are they hard to learn to use?
I haven't taken the fondant class yet but have heard it tastes horrible. I was hoping to figure out how to do this w bc icing but if it is fondant I guess I will just have to wait.
I have never tried the wilton fondant. I did cover a cake this weekend in choco-pan, which is a white chocloate fondant. Wow! It is so good. I will never use anything else again.
I have done a cake like this before in bc..........all you do is make the outline of each color fill in with star tip.....then do the whole viva paper towel thing........let the icing crust a little....and put the paper towel over it and smooth with your hand.......the lines from one color to the next......will automaticallly become... not so crisp.....more wavy if you will, just from rubbing over the paper towel with your hand, and it gets it really smooth like fondant without the aweful taste!!
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Fondant can taste nasty if you buy it ready made - I would advocate making it yourself and then you can add nice flavours to it if you like, it's not too hard to do and I think it's much better! There are recipes for it here or just google for recipes.
Where can you get choco-pan I hear about this stuff alot on CC...
I bought it at a local cake decorating supply store. They do have a website it is, http://www.choco-pan.com/pages/1/index.htm
It tastes great!
OK here it is.....I had a bunch of left over colors in bags and did a bag of purple to make it more spring looking. Just to see if it would work. I just frosted with what ever tip was on the bag and then just did my best to smooth with out mixing the colors too much. I had a hard time getting the top smooth so I put some wax paper on top ans smoothed it with my hands and then put it in the freezer before I took the wax paper off. I don't thinkg I really like it so I probably will do something else for ds's birthday. Thanks for all of the suggestions!
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