Help W/ Border Around A Fondant Cake
Decorating By darkchocolate Updated 18 Apr 2007 , 12:22pm by yh9080
I am doing a fondant (MMF) cake for April 28th. The bottom layer (single) will be a 10", I will stack 2 - 8" layers on top of that. The next layer will be tiered and that will be a 4" cake with the mini wondermold on top of that. The cake is supposed to look like the carousel cake (page 17) in the Wilton 1995 Yearbook. I am suppossed to do the bottom layers in stripes and the top tier will be in circles which will match the napkin.
I feel like this cake is unfinished without a border. I am not sure what to do for the bottom of the cakes or the top of the 10" and 8" cakes. She wants fondant, so I don't feel like buttercream border will look right. I also don't feel like I should use buttercream because she has asked for a fondant cake. What should I do? The 8" layer cake will be plain on top because she will be using a center piece decoration in the middle of the columns. Will the stripes look funny just cut off so to speak with no border?
darkchocolate
You could do fondant balls or a fondant rope for a border.
I agree with the fondant balls or rope for the border. I just made a fondant cake last week and put large color coordinated fondant beads around the bottom border and it came out very nice. You can see what it looks like in my photos if you want to.
Hope you post pics of your cake when you are finished. It should be awesome! Have fun! 
Fondant rope sounds cool, but I have also done a little BC bead (dots) border around the bottom of fondant cakes before. It just finishes it off and hides the seam where the fondant has been cut. Always looks fine and it blends right in.
Thank you for all of your ideas. I like the idea of a rope border, but I can't roll an even rope. I do not have a Play Doh machine/toy. I have been looking though. I wonder if my cookie press would work? I have a disk that would give me a small rope/tube shape.
I like the fondant balls, but that would be a lot of work. I would need enough to go around the base of the 10", 8" and 4" cake. I like the idea of a small rope border, because that would be easier at this point.
Thanks!
darkchocolate
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