Chocolate Transfers V. Colorflow

Decorating By cb_one Updated 21 Mar 2007 , 7:02pm by springlakecake

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cb_one Posted 21 Mar 2007 , 4:24pm
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I have a B-Day cake that i'm doing for a customer and she wants a Spring theme. It's on April 15 so I have a little time. I was thinking of doing something with some pastel colors and some Butterflies cascading up the side of the cake.

The cake will probably be iced in Buttercream.

I haven't used Colorflow before, but the colors look a little more vivid that the CT.

Anybody have any exp. with both?

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mcdonald Posted 21 Mar 2007 , 5:05pm
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I love both and colorflow works great when doing cookies. As far as using colorflow for making items on a cake, I have not tried. My initial thought is that the colorflow might be too thin and crack. Chocolate transfers turn out thicker and... maybe the word I am looking for is "stable".

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springlakecake Posted 21 Mar 2007 , 7:02pm
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You could do either, but I am personally a big fan of chocolate transfers. I dont know if I would ever do another color flow again. I think the colors can be very vivid. I think what helps is to do them on something shiny (I use a plastic report cover). They end up much more shiny and vivid than if you did it on wax or parchment. Here is one I did with butterflies (I also have a lot of other CT's in my gallery too, if it helps you to know that they can be vivid)

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=merissa&cat=0&pos=1

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