Ditto for me. Thinned royal will give you a smooth dot, but it may fall off. If your cake is frosted in BC, you can do the dots a few days in advance and place them as soon as you get your layer frosted, before it has a chance to crust at all!!! They will stay on better then, but if it is fondant, I am not sure. I have not done fondant. Probably you could glue them on with royal.
Could you glue them on with gel or would that dissolve the royal?
My opinion is to make them out of fondant and just put a little water on your finger and then wet the back of the dot slightly attatch to cake and voila! A perfectly round dot. It is so easy. I hate working in royal, too messy and Prep work.
Fondant is awsome and quick.
I attach my fondant dots/pearls with a pair of craft tweezers. I dip in either gum arabic to place and stick to fondant or use royal or water. If I use water I just use the tweezers and dip just a tiny portion of the pearl in the water and stick to the fondant cake.
Swiss dot is a very elegant decoration to put on a cake. You can do this with BC or royal! It's up to you and the creations are endless!!!
Amy
My opinion is to make them out of fondant and just put a little water on your finger and then wet the back of the dot slightly attatch to cake and voila! A perfectly round dot. It is so easy. I hate working in royal, too messy and Prep work.
Fondant is awsome and quick.
so this works with buttercream iced cake??
Swiss Dot is what the design is called! A tier with nothing else but dots on it. I've seen them in a random pattern and in the more traditional rows of dots, these are spaced equally apart all around the tier.
Hope this helps.
Amy
BTW, WELCOME TO CAKE CENTRAL!!!!!
With buttercream just attach the fondant dots/pearls before the icing crusts completely. If you do it before the icing dries there is no need to use water or anything else. (This is my experience.)
Amy
What if you need to let your BC frosting crust in order to smooth with the Viva method? Thanks.
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