Wrapping Cake With Fondant Like A Bandage
Decorating By johannap_73 Updated 12 Jun 2007 , 5:21am by marthajo1
i have seen many cakes that have been wrapped in fondant with many layers as if they have a very long length of fondant and they have started at the bottom and continued all the way up to the top....is there anyone out there who can help me out on how to go about doing this that would be a great help i would like to do this for a friends birthday.....johannap_73 from australia thanks in advance for any help that you may give me... 
Is this the sort of thing you were thinking of?
I have seen cakes where the fondant has been applied to look like pleated fabric and is placed on the cake in horizontal, parallel strips, with the top edge of the fabric folded over so as not to have a raw edge effect. First piece is applied to top of cake side and subsequent layers below overlap. All layers begin and end at the same point on the cake resulting in a vertical 'join' or seam. Usually finished off with either buttons or some detail at the seam. Of course cannot find picture to illustrate - will keep on looking
Sorry - I didn't see your picture - so probably not what you were thinking of!! Sure someone else will reply soon and in meantime will have a think..
If it were me, I would cut the long strips of fondant and wind it around a paper towel roll like a roll of ribbon and then unwind it around the cake. That is kinda how I put the band on a cowboy hat cake to keep from streching it out of shape.
May be it is strips of fondant all same length wrapped in horizontal layers over each other starting at the bottom. If the cake in the pic is covered with BC or marzipan then I would run a strip parallel with the board first to ensure no BC or marzipan is showing. Then I would start winding. The strips seem to have been cut with a curving tapered end to give a more attractive and fabric-like effect. Plus, there is an overlap of strips so that where one one strip ends the next strip does not begin thus avoiding obvious joining points for the strips. If that makes sense. Hells bells, I'm clutching at straws here... better wait for someone who has done one of these before!
Hi and welcome to CC
I did this one as a dummy cake, basically all i did was roll strips of fondant and wrap them around.. it was faily quick and easy to do... if you wanted the folds to be more like you picture jus wrap them tighter..
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=sweet_as_tisse&cat=0&pos=11
cheers
kylie
thanks to all who posted it all helped a lot now i just need to put it into practise..monday is d day..
yes i only just now decided on what i was doing for this birthday cake...its good having friends that dont mind being guinea pigs..!!! hey they get it for nothing so y would they mind ...lol its a great way to test new designs out.....
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