Boy am I glad I found this site! You are all so helpful!!
I have only done 2 other stacked cakes and I need some help!
I have a bridal shower cake I am doing for saturday. It is a 2 tier square cake with dots on the sides. (Using buttercream) Pretty simple but they want me to write on the cake. I am going to write "congratulations" on the side of the top tier and the names on the side of the bottom tier.
I haven't ever written on the side (I am a lefty and don't write the best to begin with). So, any suggestions on how to write on the side? And what about the dots? How do I leave them off the area I am writing on and make it look right?
I have never used gum paste, fondant or color flow but am will to try color flow...and I don't know much about using royal icing either. I HAVE A LOT TO LEARN!!
Thanks,
Ashlee
Not sure about the dots. I am sure you can use your judgement once the cake is all together if you need them or not.
For the writing melted chocolate is wonderful! Find a font you like, make it the right size for the side of the cake and print it out in reverse. Then place a piece of wax paper over that and trace the letters with the melted chocolate. Let it cool, peel and wax paper off, and then place it on the cake!
If you decide you want to write on it yourself I always use a toothpick first and make the impression on the cake of where all the letters will go. Then you just have to trace over that with your icing. I am too scared to just wing it!! Good luck!
You are awesome! Two ideas I never thought about. Next question...
Her colors are claret and silver...how do I make the chocolate either of those colors?
How about white candy melts and use nu- silver dust with alcohol and just paint it on the letters....... If you are close to a supply shop, or Michaels, or Pat Catan's, etc. you could get one of the letter kits that Wilton puts out... then you can just use a # 2 or #3 tip, and pipe over the letters..... I would space the writing where you think it will look good before you put the dots on..... don't try to work around them.... SOunds like it will be a pretty cake.... would love to see a picture of the finished product.......
Tomsmom245 wrote:
Her colors are claret and silver...how do I make the chocolate either of those colors?
Use white chocolate or royal icing and paint on silver luster dust after the icing dries. You will have to mix it with a little vodka and paint it on with a paint brush. Like the top of my camera on my avatar.
Wow! Those are not easy colors! It would be hard to get those with chocolate....maybe someone has a good answer to that! Maybe you could use silver luster dust with white chocolate, but I don't know if you have any of that...sorry I am not more help with that!
If you alreadly have icing those colors that you are using you could also use the pin prick method with the font where you go over the letters with a pin and make a raised pattern that you just press onto the cake. Then just trace that....
One more suggestion if you decide to use buttercream to write with is to thin it w/ Karo syrup. Or I have taken letters I cut from my scrapbooking stuff and put them on the cake to make the guidline and then go over them. If you look at the cheerleading one in my photos the sides were done this way.
HTH
Melissa
For coloring chocolate, you could start with white chocolate and then add the coloring to match. I usually use Chefmaster Candy Color to tint my chocolate. Hope that helps!
Janeil
You can got to Michaels or a craft store and buy the letter stamps or something like that, and then you don't have to hand write it on the cake...also you could write first then do the dots that way you can see where you want to put them. Hope this helps some.
On my rubber duck cake in the photos, I tried to make the bubbles still "flow" the rest of the cake, despite the writing interfering.
I don't tilt my cake, but I do put it up so that when I'm sitting at the table, it's RIGHT in front of me.... doing them in toothpick first is a good idea because then you don't need to lift off the completed writing and start over.
Melissa
i read somewhere on here about Printing out what you want written from the computer then putting wax paper over it. Then trace the letters with Royal Icing. Then you can lift them off and "glue" them with icing onto the cake. That way the writing always looks good. I have done this many times and it always works!! And if people don't like the royal icing they just don't eat the letters.
OK so I went all over town tonight looking for luster dust or something like it with no luck. I think I will use the stamps I have to stamp out the writing on the side and just go over it with claret colored icing.
I'll post some pics when I get a chance. Thanks so much for all of your advice!
Ashlee
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