When placing a ribbon around a cake...do you just press it into the cake or is there a method/technique to this? Do you adhere it to the cake using something?? HELP!
i just wrap my ribbon around the cake, and put a bit of tape at the end where it overlaps with itself. others i know use a dot of royal icing to "glue" it.
I cut a strip of wax paper the same size as the ribbon and used a dab of RI to glue them together where they joined. The wax paper stopped the grease staining the ribbon from the BC.
I've used clean straight pins and I also just used BC. The straight pins add a little decoration.
with buttercream you won't have to do anything more than place it around the cake (as long as your icing is alittle soft). I've found that when the icing is slightly soft the ribbon automatically sticks to it. With fondant, you would need to secure it with royal or piping gel or something similar. As far as where it overlaps, just a dab of icing.
To me alot depends on the ribbon you are using and the reason I say that is I have a wedding cake to do the end of April and the bride chose a wired ribbon but she is having buttercream icing so I'm going to have to have the icing really cold before I place the ribbon on or I'll never get it to shape right (on a square cake no less).
Nancy, wired ribbon is a different animal. I had one in which the bride provided the ribbon and it turned out to be wired. Round cake and it looked bad. The wire cuts into the icing, no matter how much I "didn't" pull it tight, but I had to pull it "some" to get it on the cake. I won't post pics of this cake anywhere, it was so bad.
I don't envy you doing a square one!
When I attach ribbon to a cake I do it immediatly after smoothing the icing and then I use a dab of edible glue to adhere the end to the beginning.
Thanks so much for all of the replies! You all are the best!
I'll see about pulling the wire out without damaging it. The problem is she only bought just enough to do the cake so there is hardly any salvage or extra to play with........ and it's sheer!
Thanks guys
The totally sheer is the worst! When I set it up and was explaining to the facility staff how to cut it (it was one of my drop-n-runs) the lady said, "Oh ... I didn't realize there was ribbon on it!" And I agreed. So I have a "no wire ribbon" rule now.
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